Rail Route

Rail Route

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Isle of Wight
   
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Aug 7, 2021 @ 6:13pm
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Isle of Wight

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The Isle of Wight, based on the large, 55 mile mostly single tracked network from first part of the 20th century. Most of these tracks and stations are gone now, replaced by a single service running from the Pier Head to Shanklin and a heritage steam railway running from a new station at Smallbrook Junction to just past Havenstreet. The services here aren't representative of any kind of realistic traffic, in fact, the timetable here is the quite the opposite. It's a challenging dance of trains, weaving in and out of sidings, often without passing points noted on the timetable. That's up the dispatcher to find the right paths. There are a lot (over 70) times you need to manually reverse trains on this level, so if you don't know, right click on the train to queue it to reverse when stopped. Take it slow, and have fun.

33 trains
80 minutes
2190 high score
8 Comments
Flyto Jan 15, 2023 @ 2:20am 
Great in general, but 2G05 is set to end at a non-sink platform, making me go... huh?
djaquay Sep 19, 2022 @ 6:28pm 
At first, was overwhelmed, but after realizing I need to pause early and pause often, this was just an amazing route! Will echo Excalabur, and say that as I'm getting to the end, I'm having to throw trains wherever I can find room for 'em, but for the most part this was quite well thought out and scheduled. Thank you.
Excalabur Aug 7, 2022 @ 4:20am 
Enjoyable, but boy it would be nice to have reversing signals you could set ahead of time in the game. (The fact that the train has to start moving before you can set it to reverse at the next stop is silly.)

A few bugs/quibbles:

1. Several trains end their timetable at non-sink locations and have to be routed to a sink. Given that you mostly don't do this it seems like an oversight.
2. Several trains (the last two at St. Helen's Quarry, e.g.) throw "braking" alerts when pulling into the station. This also happens at least once at Cement Mills. My guess is that it's about platform length vs. train length?
Gradskull Feb 10, 2022 @ 10:51am 
Disappointingly stressful.
greenbigfrog Sep 27, 2021 @ 1:45pm 
Oof. Nicely thought out, but so little auto signals, and so many trains to reverse. Not that enjoyable to play TBH, even when playing in (close to or even slower than) real time.
Awesome map, very challenging, but not that much fun :steamthumbsup:
chrisseberg Aug 31, 2021 @ 8:03am 
Nice map, but waaay too much to handle. Too many trains turning around and all over.
bolzan Aug 14, 2021 @ 2:14pm 
makes no sense such big level
LHGKA Aug 12, 2021 @ 3:37pm 
An enjoyable level, which requires quite a lot of focus.