Mavrodi, thank you and yes, there's an update in the works to bring the route quality up with what's possible with the DRS graphics update. However it's only 50% ready and it will have to wait until after the Taff Vale route has been released.

Nice route! With Dutch livery pack it looks much better :) Will there be any updates or extensions?

10/10 gekoloniseerd

Yes, it works.
Looks realy nice! thanks for this.

Try exit the game and then start it again.

I download it but in game i can not see it. I also did all extra workshops that i need

It's a bit of an experiment - but let me know what you think of the Frisia route with the new 'Dutch' livery pack & timetable.

oh ok thanks for letting me know

Hi Reuhaul. It's just a long wait until about 5:59 when the class 127 on track 2 has left. Use the time compression (page up) to get through the ~9 minute wait for the lines to clear to cross over to the other side of the yard.

Hi 44TZL, sorry to say but i have found another timetable issue, i was playing service SH544 Meppel Yard Work with the "class 03", it starts from the siding goes forward into the head-shunt then reverses through the station and waits on one of the loop tracks, then a message from the signaller comes up "waiting for ZG551 to clear the line", this train "class 37" comes in onto the same line as the "class 03" and they just sit there facing each other, i tried it in Drive mode and Watch mode and the same thing happened both times.

Hi conscript - thank you. Agree on the ditches and I did have a go with ditches in 2 places on this route (Leeuwarden>Grouw-Irnsum, Dronrijp-Franeker) .. but it's a lot of manual 'terrain' work to put them in, and we don't have water (yet) in DRS.. so I focused more on vegetation.

I gave this route a try and so far I like it. The route has a nice feel to it. Looking forward to playing more. Thanks for making it!

It would be nice to have some ditches next to the lines, but I guess DRS doesn't have that option.

Hi reuhaul - good to hear. I personally enjoyed jobs like the one where coal is delivered to the Akkrum sidings. I wish it could empty goods like trainz or drop off 2 cars at one siding, then 3 cars at the next.

In the upcoming 'Limburg' route, there will be so much opportunity for that and shunting when such features are added. It's intentionally designed for it and to be updated over time as DRS develops further. Personally I hope (1) signals with limited arms (2) ground signals for shunting (3) coupling/de-coupling. The upcoming train editor will be good for rolling stock and freight car content.

Hi 44TZL, didnt realise there was a new beta of DRS on the way will look forward to that.

As i mentioned i prefer freight over passenger and a combination of shunting moves (yard work) and longer freight runs (mainline / branch line), hopefully one day we will get more freight wagons and possibly the option to couple / uncouple wagons.

I did have "trainz: a new era" installed on my pc but removed as it never ran smoothly no matter how i tweaked the options, but this game runs perfectly right from the start and its my era as i was born in the 1960's.

Hi Reuhaul. Good to hear what you like, I will pay a lot more attention to freight on the new map and it's very helpful to hear what you enjoy.

The release will coincide with the new beta of DRS (end of April?), but I may share a 'work-in-progress' earlier. Currently the tracks & terrain are done, as is most of basic scenery. To come now is the detail scenery & setup of timetables / freight jobs.

It's a lot of work because this map is large in scope, 6 lines with large yards and sidings at most stations (=more freight moves). I also researched the situation in 1965 and find out where now broken up tracks were located.

While I am not a rivet counter, I have tried to get towns, hamlets, crossing and yards placed pretty accurately. As a result, I find this new map/route makes a lot sense how the landscape (river valleys) relates to location of towns and the railways.

Hi 44TZL, just wondered if there is any update on your "new route" and a possible idea of when it will be released, as i have mentioned before, i am really enjoying the freight traffic movements on this map, and to make it more interesting i try to keep within UK guidelines and shunt at a maximum speed of 5mph.

Sounds great fun, i will look forward to the release of the route.

Yes it will have a lot of freight movements - I expect that the traffic will be 50/50 between passenger and freight. The traffic will initially be mostly coal. I hope that once the rolling stock editor is released, we'll get some more variation in freight cars.

You'll also get several large yards to go with the freight traffic. I'm hoping that Lapio will be able to implement the 'limit signal arms to 1x left/1x right diversion' soon so the signals don't go out of control.

Like the sound of your "new route" you are planning, you mentioned coal mines & industries, does this mean it will have lots of "freight movements"?

It's a route based on the Dutch province of Limburg, again in 1965, with at least 4 (shorter) lines that intersect in several places. Three lines are double track. It features lots of close spaced stations and inclines up to 2.5% due to the hilly / rolling terrain. This area also had a lot of coal mines and other industries at the time, which will influence the services / traffic on the lines.

The landscape and track elevation are from actual height maps, so cuttings, embankments and all routing will feel like they belong there. The lowest track is about 40 meter above sealevel, the heighest about 165m... all in an area of about 25km x 25km

Nice, what will it be?

Hi Frenchy. I may but I have no direct plans to extend the timetable soon - if you set the filter to 'all', you can see just how many services are running just between 5am and midday alone. Are you after running services in the dark / nightfall?

By the way, my next route will run afternoon-evening, probably something like 3pm-12pm.

will you ever add an evening timetable?

No problem and thank you for the feedback. I'll add more shunting duties that are made to be played & with passenger trains coming in or heading out.

Thank you for taking the time to alter both the signal and the service SH556, i do enjoy the shunting duties and would be pleased if you could create some more, maybe a bit later in the day when there are more passenger services running at the same time.

Hi reuhaul. I've fixed that signal. I left it there as several shunting jobs were more designed to generate traffic rather than to be played. Do you like those type of shunting duties - should I put more in?

Just ran that service "SH556" and noticed that the long viaduct over the junction at "leeuwarden" where the head-shunt tracks are has the gantry signals stuck in the support pillar and bank on the left side of the head-shunt tracks. Other than that the service is working fine now.

Thanks for posting that routing error. It's been fixed now.

Have found a possible error in the timetable. 5:56 SH556 Mineral Wagon x5. Selected this service and got the following error message "couldn't find path for this service"

FYI Over the last couple of days, I've added quite a few new jobs on the extended mainline + marked some more jobs with an asterisk*

Bonbon - I grew up there and travelled about all the Dutch lines as a teenager. A am also familiar with sources for getting station photos, station track drawings, .. My grandfather directed special traffic over the Dutch network, so I probably got some genetic inclination for timetables too :-)

On the sum of it though, I thought this network ticked a lot of 'gameplay' boxes:

First, I wanted a busy hub, so Leeuwarden seemed perfect with 4 lines terminating - yet it's a small town and I could model a good part its track layout (nearly all stations are 1:1)

Additionally, the branch lines would result in a decent variety of 'game' lengths and are serviced by dmu's till today. And in 1965 those branch lines still had regular freight services.

I did try to locate an English station and resources...but didn't get far quick enough.

May I ask: In your profile it is stated that you are from Australia. Why that particular rail network then?

Ha, I just thought you´ve updated the route :D Had to read it twice to realize you mean the image in the screenshots. I´m looking forward to the extension.

I've uploaded a new 'network map' with on it the 30km extension of the mainline that is underway.
- It runs through an area with some low hills, and features cuttings
- 2 stations will be added and especially 'Meppel' is pretty large
- Just before Meppel it will also join another (busier) mainline.

No, the signal passed at danger was my fault :) sometimes there are two signals next to each other, but just one "announcer signal" - the yellow one. Announcer was down, first signal was up, yay, ok, it changed -> throttle up! Oh noes, second display is stop, BRAAAAAAKE!

Nice! Signal passed at danger - Is that because of the way the signals are placed or just you? :)

By the way, due to the traffic heading out at Leeuwarden at the end, it's practically impossible to be on time there.

Just finished it :)
Signal passed at danger - 2 times
Max. comfortable acceleraion exceed - 10 times
Passenger comfort exceeded - 6 times
Cumulative minutes late - 7
*cough cough*

:D
Energy use - 79.7%

Leeuwarden was really busy, a forest of signals, I like it.
Thank you for adding that to the route, enjoyed it much!

I´m going to try it out now :D - Be right back

Merci, Pat!

Bonbon - This time I've squeezed a 37 shift in on the line Leeuwarden-Stavoren. Especially the return leg starting at 10:28 could tick your boxes again :) On that one, I personally love how busy Leeuwarden Station is on entry.

Première ligne réelle et pour moi c'est une réussite :)

Hey, just finished the new addition you mentioned. You are right, I liked it :) Personally, I love the Class 37, and I love stopping services, so this is a no brainer. Amazing how you managed to improve the routes, thank you for your efforts.

Will do. I've also just added a 4-stop parcel delivery service along the same line with the 37, starting at the Leeuwarden end @ 7:17. You may like it.

Hey 44TZL - Just finished the 6:59 run with the 37. Very good! Thank you for adding/editing the route. Keep the flow!

FYI The mainline has had a lot more scenery added over the last days.

Bonbonschmatzer - I've replaced the 6:59 passenger service with a Class 37, so there's a main line stopping scenario with the 37.

Hi. Thank you for the likes and comment!!

Yes, the runs with the 37 feature about the least stops and the least scenery :-) You could try a run Leeuwarden - Stavoren for more stops. I've also just given that line a scenery update.

As for the scenery, yes it's pretty sparse in reality, and the scenery is very much a work in progress and I hope we'll get some more feature in DRS so we can put more in. There's also 120km of network to cover, but this will improve with every update.

Hello, just completed two runs with the 37.
Nice long stretchs of rail, enjoyed the ride, even though I normally like routes with more stops (passenger trains).

I noticed that on the long streches of rail, there is not much going on left and right from the tracks, but I assume that this is the way to be on a railway up north in frisia/netherland.

I´ll continue to drive some more on your map, thank you for the effort making this and keep on going :)

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