Can we link routes together?

[DevilDaredme]

I've just recently bought the game and saw online the world route map. The Uk in particular is covered with routes! So much that there are paths from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland (all separate dlc). If someone were to buy all UK routes, would it be possible to link them together someway that you could operate a train from Brighten to Edinburgh or Glasgow?

[Glenn]

In a nutshell, no. However SOME routes can be stitched together only if their start points are both the same, and even then accuracy is paramount. A clever chap called Danny has managed it.

[Highball Simulation]

Originally posted by DevilDaredme:

I've just recently bought the game and saw online the world route map. The Uk in particular is covered with routes! So much that there are paths from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland (all separate dlc). If someone were to buy all UK routes, would it be possible to link them together someway that you could operate a train from Brighten to Edinburgh or Glasgow?

It is possible, just extremely difficult. Many route builders just make new routes instead. A good example is Western Mainlines by Just Trains, which allows a player to run Penzance-Paddington with no interruptions. Similarly, Alan Thomson Simulation is currently working on modelling the entire WCML as one route (currently, it can only be driven in bits).

[x1Heavy]

Awesome. About time you long haulers get something.

I hate to be that route builder though. Its a talent for them.

[Danny]

Merging routes with the same point of origin it can be easy or hard, for the most part it's copying files, although if you have routes with different terrain textures it's a pain, and track can be the tricky part too. (because you have to cut two routes and then merge a big tracks.bin file )

You can merge other routes* together but without some sort of automated tool to do a lot of the work, it would take a long time, and enough that it's not worth it (even then with one, it's still a pain to do - I don't have a tool to do so. They would have other issues too, such as the combined route not following it's real location the futher north you go (i.e. it gets further out)

(* I mean i've always known it's possible, but never said because it's a lot of work, and if i said i knew it was possible - I'd just get demands :), i mean I still do but not as many as i would have gotten )

(other routes = routes without the same point of origin)