The detail of this line is incredible. I take the train between Bath Spa and BTM every day and the detail is almost spot on even up to the types of building alongside the stations.
I am a retired driver Squirrel who has worked over that route on HST's many times. I have to say it all looks pretty acurate. For your information, the parking brake on a HST set is pneumatically operated and does not give any reading on any of your gauges. You just get the ON/OFF indicator. However, a big fat red fault light on the desk should have grabbed your attention immediately. IRL you would have tripped every hot axle box detector in the Old Oak area and the signalling centre would have stopped you and told you to examine your train. The route to Oxford continues on to Banbury, Leamington Spa and Birmingham IRL. Plenty of possibilities there.
You are absolutely correct regarding sounding the horn in USA... two long, one short, one long. And we try to make sure the last 'toot' is just before the crossing. Also, if under a certain speed, you start and keep the bell going until after the crossing of the engine.
This route looks incredible. Will definitly purchase it after the weekend. What would make it even better is if they added an extension fro Exeter to Penzance, then it would be complete.
Nice braking work :p Btw the brake gauges still showed pressure after releasing the parking brake because analogue air brakes are regulated by releasing pressure - the dial should go down as you apply braking (reaching zero on emergency)
Mr Squirrel the original GWR line was built in the 1830s by the great engineer Brunel. The route follows the flattest route to Bristol. Swindon was the railway work shops of the GWR which employed 13,000 people each day. If you compare the track mapped by this scenario to the aerial photographs on the internet web site "Britain From Above" it shows that a greatly reduced layout. Swindon was massive.
Squirrel, as you were talking about the round/square bales, my uncle owns a farm, and that was one of his problems. He got fed up so he spent some extra cash on a square baler. It was pretty funny watching the round ones roll down the hill :D
Hey Squirel. Love your videos man I've been watching for quite a few years now. Love it man keep it up and I can't wait for next years and see what's to come
Those factories with the cars in coming out of swindon are the old great western railway works. They were at one point the largest railway facility in the UK.
Amazing route and have decided to get this so thankyou for showcasing squirrel. Thought about getting TSW but the Great Western route on that is very short compared to this.
Itàs nice to see finally an "entire" route. Makes one wonder what they could do from Waterloo! Sq try the return journey to Paddington from Exeter (without the PKB!!!).
7:11 Wantage Down Main indicates that there is a junction and the line that you are on is the Mainline heading towards Bristol and Wantage is merely the location.
+Squirrel At 9:55 it's a signal bridge (I guess that's the correct British term, translated from German). They carry signals, if there are many next to each other, little space between the tracks or positive for visibility. No adverts ;) Please do more videos on this, it seems to be one of the best quality (and, to me, most interesting) routes in TS. Probably with a Class 55 (if a scenario with it is available). ps: marker for myself: 20:00
hi Paul I have been watching you for about .5 yrs about the first one was car mac simulator, I like all of the videos even the one you crash or get into a crash keep on making the good vids.
I agree with your comments regarding bundling the maps and required locomotives. I hate when companies nickel and dime you with DLC like cars and race tracks. If there is a way to get every option for a reasonable price I will usually buy it. I also agree when it comes to open world games and interacting with the environment. The first thing I thought when I saw your Eurotruck streams was 'can I get a regular car and just drive around?' It's also short-sighted of the developers; if the customers are asking for something, even if you don't get why yourself, you should at least make an effort to give it to them.
In the case of running with the parking brake on, the system should have sensed this and shut power off around 4mh. This is obviously not programmed into this simulator. Likewise, a driver would probably have sensed that he was running slow and would have checked the desk out and found that the parking brake was still on. Even on vaccum braked trains a qualified driver would have given thought to this.
I love your idea regarding multiplayer passenger. in ETS2 and ATS everyone could sit passenger seat on multiplayer or in flight sim, co-pilot that would be cool
The round bales dont roll when stacked and stored on their end like the farmers do they also load easily onto tautliners for transportation * in England mainly to the Netherlands.
I'm now 20 minutes in and it baffles me you haven't figured out that you've left the parking brake on. The fact you noticed you were still loosing speed very quickly under 40% power with 0% brakes and it didn't click that that doesn't make sense.
You have to realize that He was watching a lot as he was driving and he can forget things easily; I seen on his streams may times. I will do the same sometimes, I'll get to the end of the trip before I realize what I did.
@55:46 thats not a speed limit - its a dot matrix sign telling you what platform you are entering. Speed signs will always be black on white with a red border afaik.
high squirrel I get on the train at Chippenham most days apart from some benches and the platform staff office it's not too bad and in the town from the railway line look quite similar again I don't play simulator games but I've got an order compulsion to watch you playing I don't know if it's time for me to start worrying keep up the good work I might even come and about Bath station and Bristol
Trust me, trains do sound the horn when going passed a crossing, I live near a level crossing and literally 10m from my house is the tracks and they do, I'm used to it though ;)
They tried bendy buses here in Malta used by Arriva but they did not last either as the roads were not suitable and Arriva pulled out before their contract was completed I believe, the government now run the buses and the service is quiet good believe it or not.
Im going to guess St Margarets station/railway crossing :P My other guess would be Roydon (i train spot there whenever steam trains pass through), although that is in Essex.
i remember when i was like 8 i thought that there was just one simulator, that all the simulators was in one open online world where u played. Then i understood that wasn't the case really.
was;nt the bendy buses replaced because the drivers complained that they found it difficult to get round the tight London corners,junctions and at any turn offs at traffic lights the insurance you mentioned is Swinton
yes in the US and Canada, trains use the horn at crossings, unless its in a quiet zone....also was it just me or did anybody else notice the audio was behind.....
Hi Squirrel. I've had the same problem as you in getting to stations on time. One station, I was supposed to leave a minute before arriving. I noticed you could only get 94.1mph out of your HST125 , I've had 126mph out of mine! It takes some time to get there though. I may be trying to teach my Grandmother to suck eggs here, but you seemed confused about Wantage Up Main. All rail tracked are centred on London so if it says Up Main then they are heading for London, if is says down main then the track is heading away from London. You've Just explained your speed problem. Best Regards Morgi.
No. MMO Simulators is a REALLY bad idea. Just think of the amount of trolling when someone starts driving a tractor trailer down the train tracks, to try to derail you, or kamikaze pilots try to fly into you. Just imagine how bad that will be for your immersion.
+BillytheCrayon well, that would be a problem for the first few weeks after release. after that, all the kids and idiots will have left and only the actual people that like the SIM will be left
One thing your right about that simulator creators don't get is we want to experience a would they created not stuck in a vehicle the whole time. They should consider people want a world like grand theft auto five created. They want to simulate real jobs well real truckers for example stop at gas stations to unload the gas tanker trailers cause they only take the to destinations like in ets2 and ATS when the tanker needs to be refilled
hi paul love your vids that building at 21:13 is the STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway you also see the old turntable at 21:38 you should look at it from Google Earth.
I agree if they have moving vehicles outside the train then they should create the passengers moving up and down the carriages going to the buffet car reading papers etc then that would be so real they also need to put in trains flying through the stations where possible while your loading and unloading passengers and passing trains on the tracks going in the same direction as you which would be fun about the timings that you had probs with do you think they might have done that completely wrong or the game actually cheats you
Squirrel I love these videos as I love the Great Western and it's main lines. Have you thought about doing a trip with Justtrains new British Railways 7MTs (Britannias). As they are beautiful in real life, and the photos in development look nice. I can't say my own opinion as it was released today (just a little while ago). These engines are said to be the most advanced steam locos for TS2016 yet and come with many region specific details and variants.
Swindon is home to Swindon Works where a good many Great Western steam locomotives were built. That is the big brick building with the turntable out front ( it was the pattern shop, it's a restaurant now) and the walls remaining around the car park were part of another building, this is around 21:45.
have you got a dead power car? your train should be able to do 125. also this route is currently being electrified with electrodiesel bi mode trains replacing the current fleet
Did anyone have a delay in the audio going out of Swindon?
Yes
I did
Yep
No i got it in yorkshire
+Evan Rein Yes, and then the video errored out and I had to reload the page. Quite a bit outside of Swindon though
Squirrel! You left the parking brake on! I'm literally shouting at my monitor!
Edit: Thank God you noticed...
+Akke_Pakke There'd be nothing left of the brakes by the time he took them off...
Squirrels are animals, not train drivers! Lol!
The detail of this line is incredible. I take the train between Bath Spa and BTM every day and the detail is almost spot on even up to the types of building alongside the stations.
i take this route from cardiff to reading every 3 weeks coming home from uni! its almost IDENTICAL! props to whoever made this dlc!
Is the audio a bit out of sync? All of Paul's reactions were delayed and it really frustrated me xD
Can't say I noticed
I am a retired driver Squirrel who has worked over that route on HST's many times. I have to say it all looks pretty acurate. For your information, the parking brake on a HST set is pneumatically operated and does not give any reading on any of your gauges. You just get the ON/OFF indicator. However, a big fat red fault light on the desk should have grabbed your attention immediately. IRL you would have tripped every hot axle box detector in the Old Oak area and the signalling centre would have stopped you and told you to examine your train. The route to Oxford continues on to Banbury, Leamington Spa and Birmingham IRL. Plenty of possibilities there.
That was an AMAZING recreation of Swindon! I've lived here all my life and I even managed to spot my house! :D keep up the great work squirrel.
I live in Swindon too
James! I do shows 7n the wyvern theatre
I live in Swindon too used to live near the big tesco over looking the railway lines :D
Swindon till i die🔴⚪
Chippenham is also very realistic
You are absolutely correct regarding sounding the horn in USA... two long, one short, one long. And we try to make sure the last 'toot' is just before the crossing. Also, if under a certain speed, you start and keep the bell going until after the crossing of the engine.
You should do a Squirrel Epic Fail Compilation.
to me it seems like the sound is a bit out of sync
+Stefan Lazic at 22 minutes or so the sound stops and when it comes back it's out of sync.
Year Of The Parking Brake #YOTPB
Chris Spatgen lol
This route looks incredible. Will definitly purchase it after the weekend. What would make it even better is if they added an extension fro Exeter to Penzance, then it would be complete.
Couldnt have put it better myself Jeff!
Nice braking work :p Btw the brake gauges still showed pressure after releasing the parking brake because analogue air brakes are regulated by releasing pressure - the dial should go down as you apply braking (reaching zero on emergency)
Mr Squirrel the original GWR line was built in the 1830s by the great engineer Brunel. The route follows the flattest route to Bristol. Swindon was the railway work shops of the GWR which employed 13,000 people each day. If you compare the track mapped by this scenario to the aerial photographs on the internet web site "Britain From Above" it shows that a greatly reduced layout. Swindon was massive.
OMG, I live in Bristol and that was so detailed coming in from bath its unreal! Also yes I was shouting at my monitor about the parking brake!
Squirrel, as you were talking about the round/square bales, my uncle owns a farm, and that was one of his problems. He got fed up so he spent some extra cash on a square baler. It was pretty funny watching the round ones roll down the hill :D
Hey Squirel. Love your videos man I've been watching for quite a few years now. Love it man keep it up and I can't wait for next years and see what's to come
anyone having the same problem as me having a delay on sound?
+Adrian Law me
+Adrian Law jup, me to. I thought it was my wireless headphone but no.
Yeh, it's not synced
+Adrian Law Yep, Only when he was leaving Swindon
Those factories with the cars in coming out of swindon are the old great western railway works. They were at one point the largest railway facility in the UK.
so fun and entertaining to watch these videos.
I Live in Bath and take this journey a lot, I must say Bath and Chippenham look EXTREMELY accurate! They even have Bath Southgate and Bus station!
Great video. I had to reverse when you discovered the parking brake. It made me laugh so hard :-) I really needed that, so thank you so much :-D
Brilliant...Chippenham and Corsham....I know them so well!....thanks for the review!
90min in the game and finally he saw the light :-)
Great video i wish there was an east coast scenario such good views and nice route
i love your clips paul and every day i check for new clips from you
thanks for providing us with good relaxing entertainment
2 Fails this video:
Parking brake on
Audio out of sync
Amazing route and have decided to get this so thankyou for showcasing squirrel. Thought about getting TSW but the Great Western route on that is very short compared to this.
Itàs nice to see finally an "entire" route. Makes one wonder what they could do from Waterloo! Sq try the return journey to Paddington from Exeter (without the PKB!!!).
The parking brake moment just cracked me up LOL Brilliant. :)
The brakes work when they don’t have pressure. Basically, when they lose pressure, they engage. So a lot of pressure leaves them disengaged
The large car park at Didcot is the station car park. It's what added 'Parkway' to the Didcot name.
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Swindon was the home of the GWR, where most of their locos and carriages were built.
Reminds me of the time I drove a BR Clan halfway from Carlisle to Dumfries with the cylinder cocks open.
7:11 Wantage Down Main indicates that there is a junction and the line that you are on is the Mainline heading towards Bristol and Wantage is merely the location.
Swindon is well known for its roundabouts and the engineering of building steam trains years ago.
Generally, the horn is sounded where there is a Whistle board, or if there are maintenance people in the area working on the track.
+Squirrel
At 9:55 it's a signal bridge (I guess that's the correct British term, translated from German). They carry signals, if there are many next to each other, little space between the tracks or positive for visibility. No adverts ;)
Please do more videos on this, it seems to be one of the best quality (and, to me, most interesting) routes in TS. Probably with a Class 55 (if a scenario with it is available).
ps:
marker for myself: 20:00
shut up u nerd
god
+Courtney Gardner so who farted into your soup?
yep. one of the new ones with clearance for overhead power lines (which are being installed on this route at the moment)
+X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X FYI the technical term in the UK for that structure is a signal gantry. Although signal bridge works just as well.
In Canada trains sound their horns--two nedium, a short, along--especially at crossings with no barriers or flashing red lights.
great video and fantastic to see my home town on a game :-)
hi Paul I have been watching you for about .5 yrs about the first one was car mac simulator, I like all of the videos even the one you crash or get into a crash keep on making the good vids.
I agree with your comments regarding bundling the maps and required locomotives. I hate when companies nickel and dime you with DLC like cars and race tracks. If there is a way to get every option for a reasonable price I will usually buy it.
I also agree when it comes to open world games and interacting with the environment. The first thing I thought when I saw your Eurotruck streams was 'can I get a regular car and just drive around?' It's also short-sighted of the developers; if the customers are asking for something, even if you don't get why yourself, you should at least make an effort to give it to them.
Until recently we had bendy buses here in the North East, i loved them
In the case of running with the parking brake on, the system should have sensed this and shut power off around 4mh. This is obviously not programmed into this simulator. Likewise, a driver would probably have sensed that he was running slow and would have checked the desk out and found that the parking brake was still on. Even on vaccum braked trains a qualified driver would have given thought to this.
this is soo cool and I live in between Barth and Bristol city and Barth and Bristol looked just like they do now !!!
if there was a bundle on steam with this route and all trains with it i would buy it in a heartbeat.
If live a mile away from a level crossing on the Hereford to Paddington line and every 20 minutes I here a train horn!
I love your idea regarding multiplayer passenger. in ETS2 and ATS everyone could sit passenger seat on multiplayer or in flight sim, co-pilot that would be cool
"looks like chippenham is a lovely place"
The round bales dont roll when stacked and stored on their end like the farmers do they also load easily onto tautliners for transportation * in England mainly to the Netherlands.
Please do London to Swansea. I loved these video's as there were families sights. Please do London to Swansea
very surprised how bath looks! has the bus station and everything!
I went to bath yesterday on the train and it looks spot on
LMAO. Complained about the loco being too slow while riding the brake for an hour and a half XD
I think the buildings with cars in at Swindon, is the old railway works.
I'm now 20 minutes in and it baffles me you haven't figured out that you've left the parking brake on. The fact you noticed you were still loosing speed very quickly under 40% power with 0% brakes and it didn't click that that doesn't make sense.
You have to realize that He was watching a lot as he was driving and he can forget things easily; I seen on his streams may times. I will do the same sometimes, I'll get to the end of the trip before I realize what I did.
@55:46 thats not a speed limit - its a dot matrix sign telling you what platform you are entering. Speed signs will always be black on white with a red border afaik.
The audio is about 10 seconds out but otherwise great video
5:30 you don't need to use the horn if you have barriers. If the barriers are down there is obviously a train coming
high squirrel I get on the train at Chippenham most days apart from some benches and the platform staff office it's not too bad and in the town from the railway line look quite similar again I don't play simulator games but I've got an order compulsion to watch you playing I don't know if it's time for me to start worrying keep up the good work I might even come and about Bath station and Bristol
OMG Squirrel! That has to happen!
Trust me, trains do sound the horn when going passed a crossing, I live near a level crossing and literally 10m from my house is the tracks and they do, I'm used to it though ;)
Oh and I live in Oxford btw
So good to have mainline out of Paddington.
These trains are actually incredibly punctual, I get them between Bristol and Paddington, and they're always exactly on time. Just the way I like it
I get them between Maidenhead and Paddington and they're rarely on time...
They tried bendy buses here in Malta used by Arriva but they did not last either as the roads were not suitable and Arriva pulled out before their contract was completed I believe, the government now run the buses and the service is quiet good believe it or not.
Im going to guess St Margarets station/railway crossing :P My other guess would be Roydon (i train spot there whenever steam trains pass through), although that is in Essex.
seven tunnel is longer which is between bristol parkway and newport 4 miles 628 yards and box tunnel is 1m 1452 yards long
squirrel the night worker you was on about in pt one is from the bounds green depot
i remember when i was like 8 i thought that there was just one simulator, that all the simulators was in one open online world where u played. Then i understood that wasn't the case really.
was;nt the bendy buses replaced because the drivers complained that they found it difficult to get round the tight London corners,junctions and at any turn offs at traffic lights the insurance you mentioned is Swinton
So umm parking brake? lol I didn't notice till you did couldn't stop laughing
Brighton and Hove Buses bought up all of London's bendy buses, they're all over Brighton and they are a pain in the a*** !!!
yes in the US and Canada, trains use the horn at crossings, unless its in a quiet zone....also was it just me or did anybody else notice the audio was behind.....
when u were at Swindon the big disused building in real life is an outlet centre just behind it is a railway museum
Hey Squirrel, could this be the Train Simulator version of the Euro Truck "Cardiff to Rostock Disaster"???
Try turning off the train break.
I think that the scenario time-line is linked to the track speed so it thinks you will drive 125 instead of 90mph
Hi Squirrel. I've had the same problem as you in getting to stations on time. One station, I was supposed to leave a minute before arriving. I noticed you could only get 94.1mph out of your HST125 , I've had 126mph out of mine! It takes some time to get there though. I may be trying to teach my Grandmother to suck eggs here, but you seemed confused about Wantage Up Main. All rail tracked are centred on London so if it says Up Main then they are heading for London, if is says down main then the track is heading away from London. You've Just explained your speed problem. Best Regards Morgi.
No. MMO Simulators is a REALLY bad idea. Just think of the amount of trolling when someone starts driving a tractor trailer down the train tracks, to try to derail you, or kamikaze pilots try to fly into you. Just imagine how bad that will be for your immersion.
+BillytheCrayon well, that would be a problem for the first few weeks after release.
after that, all the kids and idiots will have left and only the actual people that like the SIM will be left
***** hey, let me dream...
One thing your right about that simulator creators don't get is we want to experience a would they created not stuck in a vehicle the whole time. They should consider people want a world like grand theft auto five created. They want to simulate real jobs well real truckers for example stop at gas stations to unload the gas tanker trailers cause they only take the to destinations like in ets2 and ATS when the tanker needs to be refilled
the round bales are a quarter to half a ton each and the square bales are a ton in weight each
in Germany trains will only sound the horn on a crossing without barriers, so propably it's the same in England
29:55 lol It was an epic fail, but it was epically funny aswell. Happens to some of us mate. Haha.
Trains don't have to use their horn over road level crossings. Foot level crossings are a different kettle of fish.
hi paul love your vids that building at 21:13 is the STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway you also see the old turntable at 21:38 you should look at it from Google Earth.
In our farm village we don't need double decker or bendy. The bus just never gets full only in rush hours
You should create your own route in Train Sim you know (that 'build' option). That would be really cool :)
I agree if they have moving vehicles outside the train then they should create the passengers moving up and down the carriages going to the buffet car reading papers etc then that would be so real they also need to put in trains flying through the stations where possible while your loading and unloading passengers and passing trains on the tracks going in the same direction as you which would be fun about the timings that you had probs with do you think they might have done that completely wrong or the game actually cheats you
How about Train Passenger Simulator 2018 as a DLC for TS2017? That would be cool.
Skip to 29:29 when he FINALLY figured it out!!!!!
Squirrel I love these videos as I love the Great Western and it's main lines. Have you thought about doing a trip with Justtrains new British Railways 7MTs (Britannias). As they are beautiful in real life, and the photos in development look nice. I can't say my own opinion as it was released today (just a little while ago). These engines are said to be the most advanced steam locos for TS2016 yet and come with many region specific details and variants.
Swindon is home to Swindon Works where a good many Great Western steam locomotives were built. That is the big brick building with the turntable out front ( it was the pattern shop, it's a restaurant now) and the walls remaining around the car park were part of another building, this is around 21:45.
Squirrel, are you ever going to do the Exeter St Davids to Exmouth Route, Or the Avocet line as most people call it.
Squirrel! You left the parking brake on! I was screaming at the monitor! Lol #Squirrelepicfail
Could you do the South Wales Coastal route? There are quite a few scenarios for that one.
Bristol Temple meads looks realist on TS!
have you got a dead power car? your train should be able to do 125. also this route is currently being electrified with electrodiesel bi mode trains replacing the current fleet
great video!! funny moments
exeter today is turrenchel rain, sleat, snow, wind if only id had all them in one.
I think the guys from omsi are making an allround sim. With omsi ets and trainsim combined
They should make Multiplayer