Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

[yerkes]

This is a lovely little route - as someone posted earlier, good to see something 'breaking out of the mould'. Enjoying the challenge of keeping the train on the rails without grinding to a complete halt. There are some pretty tough gradients! Thanks, Richard.

[antonyperks]

I keep falling off the rails................going to fast naughty boy. but this route is fantastic.

[Ajay1]

I managed to complete the Joy Train scenario, It was the longest 5 miles I've ever undertaken at some stages I ended up going only .03 MPH and noticed as soon as I got up to 4 or more MPH my poor engine started rocking back and forth. Loved it though.

Did you press / to take the handbrake off? I forgot on my first run and had a smilar result!

I'm sure I did, I'll have to have another go now to see.

[johnwatto]

I managed to complete the Joy Train scenario, It was the longest 5 miles I've ever undertaken at some stages I ended up going only .03 MPH and noticed as soon as I got up to 4 or more MPH my poor engine started rocking back and forth. Loved it though.

Did you press / to take the handbrake off? I forgot on my first run and had a smilar result!

I'm sure I did, I'll have to have another go now to see.

I had the same problem, I forgot the handbrake, once I rerun the scenario no problems.

Johnwatto

[petermargetts]

Fantastic route with great atmosphere. I have just completed the activity travelling at around 13 mph all the way with no problems. Surprised there was no trouble with cows on the line with it being India !!!

Peter M

[DocklandsProject]

As anticipated, an excellent route Richard. Love those film posters! I am rather envious of the people de-railing because they are going too fast. I'm no Steam train driver and I'm managing about 5mph uphill

[atlasduff47]

I thought that I would mention that although I quite liked my time trying out the cracking steam locos included with this route, it wasn't long before I made a free roam and gave the rather excellent Merseysider diesel narrow gauge loco by spontin a spin. http://www.uktrainsim.com/filelib-info. ... leid=31941

Once a diesel head, always a diesel head!

[Easilyconfused]

A number of posts have been consigned to the topic skip due to being off-topic as they relate to a real-world incident. I would draw members attention to the code of conduct regarding this matter.

[Flash2012]

Hi gentleman,
A few more shots of the lovely DHR here:
http://www.railsim-fr.com/forum/index.p ... entry87194
Best regards...

[749006]

I need to find out how to drive the locos - I got the water, shunted on to the train set off and stalled on one of the gradients.

Is there a guide to driving a kettle somewhere?

As atlasduff47 said "Once a diesel head, always a diesel head!"

Peter

[davep]

Peter - I'm more of a diesel man myself but this is how I drive a steamer:-

Put reverser fully forward, then increase the regulator.
You will notice that the rate of speed increase will slow or stop.
That's when I slide the reverser down a bit...speed then picks up.
Continue this until you are really flying (although with this route it's only 15mph or so LOL).

Going up hill, as speed decreases increase the reverser some more.

Probably the totally incorrect way of driving - but it gets me through


Don't forget in this route, press "/" to release the handbrake first.

[749006]

Peter - I'm more of a diesel man myself but this is how I drive a steamer:-

Put reverser fully forward, then increase the regulator.
You will notice that the rate of speed increase will slow or stop.
That's when I slide the reverser down a bit...speed then picks up.
Continue this until you are really flying (although with this route it's only 15mph or so LOL).

Going up hill, as speed decreases increase the reverser some more.

Probably the totally incorrect way of driving - but it gets me through

Don't forget in this route, press "/" to release the handbrake first.

Thanks Dave - I will try that otherwise I might look at that diesel

Peter

[chrisreb]

Just started a scenario - what a fantastic route! Thank you

[tjm20000]

wWhat gauge is this in feet and inches? Like is it, 2 foot 3 inches, 2 foot 5 inches, etc, etc. If it's 2 foot 3 inches then i could make my own free roam scenario (personal) and use regular 2 foot 3 inch engines.

Kind Regards, Trevor

[xguerra]

wWhat gauge is this in feet and inches? Like is it, 2 foot 3 inches, 2 foot 5 inches, etc, etc. If it's 2 foot 3 inches then i could make my own free roam scenario (personal) and use regular 2 foot 3 inch engines.

Kind Regards, Trevor

It should be exactly 2ft. But from my experience, you don't really notice the gauge difference when driving 2ft3 locos on 2ft track.
It's perfectly fine to do so.