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[JD] 1P26 0947 Manchester Piccadilly to London St Pancras
6th May 2023During 2003 and 2004 Midland Mainline operated some HSTs between St Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly via the Midland Mainline, Erewash Valley line and the Hope Valley. In this scenario drive one of these ‘Project Rio’ services between Manchester Piccadilly and Leicester. This scenario is based on the summer 2004 Working Timetable. The weather is clear but the it won’t necessarily be a clear run the whole way.
Requirements:
Armstrong Powerhouse:
• AP Class 150/1 EP
• AP Class 158/159 Cummins EP
• AP Class 158 Perkins EP
• AP Class 170 EP
• AP Class 43 Valenta EP
• AP Class 43 VP185 EP
• AP Class 142 DMU Pack (Discontinued)
• AP Class 150/2 DMU Pack
• AP Class 156 DMU Pack
• AP Class 390 SP
Steam:
• DTG BR Class 150/1 DMU
• DTG NSE Class 159 DMU
• DTG Class 170 Turbostar DMU
• Kuju European Loco & Asset Pack
• DTG WCML South
• DTG Cross City South
Just Trains:
• Midland Mainline Derby – Sheffield
• Midland Mainline Nottingham/Derby to Leicester Extension
• Midland Mainline Erewash Valley Extension
• Midland Mainline Hope Valley Extension
• Voyager Advanced 2019
Major Wales:
• Class 43 Revamp Pack
• Class 390 Revamp pack
Alan Thomson Sim:
• Class 323 Ex-FirstNorthwestern Livery V1.1 (https://alanthomsonsim.com/downloads/class-323-ex-firstnorthwestern-livery/)
• Class 220/221 (JT) – Updated Consists (https://alanthomsonsim.com/downloads/jt-class-220-221-no-driver-no-passengers-pack/)
I hope you enjoy this scenario, this is my first attempt to use WTT to create a scenario so if is not quite right I can only apologise. Also please note there is a lack of freight trains because of the lack of information I could find. Also to help with performance the depots and yard are empty. During testing I found the scenario would always dump just before you move to the slow lines just after Longsight so it best save just before then let it dump and then resume and all should be fine.
Cracking scenario, Longsight was an issue but once past there it was great. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
I don’t know how true this scenario is from the actual WTT but I certainly enjoyed it very much 🙂
Didn’t see anything wrong with the weather.
Also I did not experience any stability issue. What I usually do for Hope Valley is to reduce the viewing distance to the minimums. I also think that the recent core update improved that.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I used the WTT for 2004 from the Network rail archive so believe it is fairly accurate if there are things you have noticed that are wrong I can have a look into it.
Issue just short of Ratcliff, held at a red that never changes and points are set against you.
A Central 156 is supposed to arrive from the south-west. I had to wait maybe 5 minutes.
As has already been said there is a Central Class 156 which goes past first. You have to wait around 5 minutes. It is just because you get down to that point quite early. If you didn’t wait you will only get held up more by a MML HST services after East Midlands Parkway.
Bit confused, have you used the AP weather pack 2.0 for this? If so it doesn’t appear to be set up correctly. If it’s v1.0 there appears to be a weather pattern for 2.0 selected which is weird.
I have used the AP weather pack 2.0 sorry it wasn’t in the requirements list. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be set up correctly I didn’t do anything clever with it just used a single weather pattern.