RSC Route: London - Brighton

[connorurry]

or third rail for that matter...

No offence but did you not see my post below Steve's?

[USRailFan]

From the intro blurb to the album on Facebook: "LONDON TO BRIGHTON! RailSimulator.com is proud to announce that the London to Brighton Main Line is in development and will be available in late-May as an expansion pack for Train Simulator 2012, complete with the Class 377 Electrostar."

So modern era, then.Personally I would have liked a 319 as well...

[Gavin-D]

No suprises about this been announced I hope they do it in the modern day era.

[Merlin75]

No suprises about this been announced I hope they do it in the modern day era.

If it's coming with the 377 then it's going to be quite modern. I hope Thompson or RSC now come out with a 319 aswell. This is now the second modern route on the bounce so I'm going to guess the next route from RSC will be a steam route.

[sean53]

If it's confirmed that it's another plastic route from RSC then my Railworks days are at an end, i'll go back to flight sims. This sim needs earlier eras to survive. Not good market sence to ignore your largest market

[AndyM77]

I can't actually see any AWS ramps?

If it's the "Same" Alan Thomson then i'd take his word for it. HUGE ASSUMPTION Alan Thomson on Facebook = Alan Thomson of http://www.thomsoninteractive.com/ (GARL, E - G, Class 170, Class 150 Creator), had models of the Turbostar and Electrostar series on Trainz, which means that the Electrostar will be a Thomson release for Railworks and therefore the route will be built either by Thomson OR RSC especially for the units. (Remember the big moan that occurred when the Class 170 appeared and a few months later E - G appeared with no discount for existing 170 owners).

[FoggyMorning]

I can't actually see any AWS ramps?

If it's the "Same" Alan Thomson then i'd take his word for it. HUGE ASSUMPTION Alan Thomson on Facebook = Alan Thomson of http://www.thomsoninteractive.com/ (GARL, E - G, Class 170, Class 150 Creator), had models of the Turbostar and Electrostar series on Trainz, which means that the Electrostar will be a Thomson release for Railworks and therefore the route will be built either by Thomson OR RSC especially for the units. (Remember the big moan that occurred when the Class 170 appeared and a few months later E - G appeared with no discount for existing 170 owners).

I don't care who is saying it, I still can't see any AWS ramps in that picture!

[USRailFan]

If it's confirmed that it's another plastic route from RSC then my Railworks days are at an end, i'll go back to flight sims. This sim needs earlier eras to survive. Not good market sence to ignore your largest market

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[AndyM77]

If it's confirmed that it's another plastic route from RSC then my Railworks days are at an end, i'll go back to flight sims. This sim needs earlier eras to survive. Not good market sence to ignore your largest market

Well to be fair, the sim still has other issues that outweigh era related releases that still need urgently addressing (but I won't beat that dead horse any more, as it's been done to death). It's "fairly" easy to 'de-modernise' a route, and lets face it 3rd rail has been around since, what, the late 50's / early 60's (my railway history isn't perfect), so really and truly dump the LED signals for some semaphore / bulb type and the route would be in a different era.

[USRailFan]

It must've been electrified earlier than that, didn't the 'Brighton Belles' start to run in the 30s (or were those diesel)?

[nobkins]

I have renamed the thread to something that is relevant to an ongoing discussion of the now announced route.

Thanks

Jim

[Merlin75]

They just can't please everyone. Too many modern routes then one group moans. Too many steam era routes the other group moans.

[bGriff]

I wonder what London terminal we are going to get. Maybe all of them?

[wynnetom440]

If it's confirmed that it's another plastic route from RSC then my Railworks days are at an end, i'll go back to flight sims. This sim needs earlier eras to survive. Not good market sence to ignore your largest market

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

+1

[FoggyMorning]

If it's confirmed that it's another plastic route from RSC then my Railworks days are at an end, i'll go back to flight sims. This sim needs earlier eras to survive. Not good market sence to ignore your largest market

I would think the largest market (and probably by a considerable margin) is for contemporary routes. That said, there is a good amount of content available for earlier eras, although more is always welcome.

I wonder what London terminal we are going to get. Maybe all of them?

I would guess Victoria, though I suppose London Bridge is a possibility