Mahlzeit,
1993matias hat geschrieben: Donnerstag 7. November 2024, 12:05Yes, I just tried to re-upload them. Feel free to check again.
looks better now!

There is also a newly-liveried ICE decorating the big stabling yard west of my airport station.
Sascha Claus hat geschrieben: Samstag 2. November 2024, 22:53[... long message about intermodal and transit freight ...]
I assume you read and understood all of it. I will ask some questions later and only upload a new version if you answer most of them satisfyingly!
About freight trains in general; I will make space for two freight trains per hour on each of the current border crossings (Farris and Strone), these slots can then be used by any type of freight train capable of 100 kph.
Sounds like a good start! And if that doesn’t suffice, we can do the thing that’s all the rage in German planning circles (to which no politician ever listens): upgrade secondary lines for higher capacity and route goods trains along them. 100kph is quite slow compared to a 220kph Intercity, but fits better between 160kph Interregios/Regional-Expresses with more stops.
On the Great Northern Railway (via Torkham and Farris), there are currently no parallel, slower lines in sight; but for Strone, some goods trains could go via Henley-in-Arden, Camrose and Trimsaran or Pitetrail (yellow). Would require either electrification or diesel or steam

haulage, though.
New diagonal lines (dashed yellow) from Holt Heath to Bromsgrove and from Wourcester-on-Fyne to Redditch and Studley are already planned. There are also harbours in the small towns north of the City of Inverfyne that will take some ships and send some trains (Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Warstones, maybe also Dudley and Wednesbury).
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I think a 50-50 split would work fine with the mixed intermodals going at fixed intervals (say, every hour or two hours), and the "private" intermodals going exactly when needed - probably at night mostly.
If I remember correctly, private intermodal trains are counted in trains per day (per operator), even if the alternatives are tolled alpine roads. That should fit in, unless someone is going to heavily toll his roads to get the lorries onto trains.
While Montspoor is not as big as Sweden, and has no single main harbour, and while Clydeshire has a navigable river connection (maybe?), I still think my estimates of freight traffic may have been quite low...
Does Coates have the same harbour capacity as Gothenburg? If not, you might get away with fewer trains.
But I didn’t think about the river yet and whether it is navigable that far upstream. That also depends on the transshipment capacity of the harbour at the mouth of the River Clyde, which doesn’t belong to me.
In any case, I think we should take one step at a time.
Agreed.
At some point I would like to define what natural resources are available in Montspoor, and what would need to be imported by block trains. Forests are plentiful, but who knows about mineral deposits or sand for construction etc.
I’m planning some small open-cast coal mines near Cumnock (as in real Scotland), but I have no idea what to do with that coal, apart from maybe some steel mills in Clydesgow. English-speaking countries in Europe haven’t been well known for resource extraction for a few decades, so it’s difficult to find some examples to imitate.
I’ll likely do some large-scale im- and export of iron and iron ore as
energy storage, as is might be available in the real world in a few years/decades/….
Don't worry about it. At the moment I don't build much, […]
Hey, there are other Builders registered in the schedule, one of them even active until a few weeks ago!
Final question: what do you all think about an undersea railway tunnel from ca. 4416/12064 to ca. 1216/12064? Together with a peninsula from there to the western end of the world, that would offer additional destinations for international and night trains.
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