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1993matias hat geschrieben: ↑Donnerstag 3. Oktober 2024, 15:57
Sascha and EN453: How would you like a night train from Coates via Clydesgow to the Capital of Whales and maybe further on to the beaches? I (Montspoor Railways) would be more than happy to provide the wagons - I need to use the repainted Talgo Trenhotel for something
Coates ↔ Clydesgow currently takes two hours. An extension to the beaches will unlikely reach six hours, so it will be a short night. And a circuitous route. Maybe go directly from Farris via a yet-unbuilt line to towards Whales (1) or from Farris via Crianlarich and Oban (3) or along the border (2).
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This won’t give the passengers whole night’s sleep, so you could load the train from Whales onto a train ferry for a four-hour ride to somewhere out of the map. Now Talgo trains are not the best choice when you want to split them into handy portions for the ferry, but it can be done with a few more end cars; maybe even breakfast buffet cars. (With one generator and one buffet car per short train. And the end cars the right way round, not as in your example at Coates West Station.
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A 2nd train from the same ferry could go to Clydesgow, then that route would be operated with one rake of Talgo coaches from Montspoor railways and one from Clydeshire.
Sample timetable: (very very rough estimation of times)
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16:00 - 20:00 go along the coast and pick up passengers from seaside towns
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20:00 - 22:00 Capital of Whales, last chance for passengers to get on
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24:00 - 02:00 loading onto ferry at Coates or FIshguard or Ferryden or wherever ⛴
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04:00 - 08:00 unloading at the other end, outside of the map, arrival or goes further
Other direction:
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20:00 - 24:00 loading at the other end, outside of the map
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02:00 - 04:00 unloading from ferry at Coates or FIshguard or Ferryden or wherever ⛴
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06:00 - 08:00 Capital of Whales, first chance for passengers to get off
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08:00 - 12:00 go along the coast to set down passengers at seaside towns
You can replace “Capital of Whales” with “Clydesgow”, “along the coast” with “through the mountains” and “seaside towns” with “mountain towns” for my section.
(to whom it applies),
IC40A from your Capital – Ironwood – Castle Douglas – Cumnock – Clydeshire Airport (ClAp)
Bordele – Coates could have a second section destined for Byte (my westernmost large north-south island) that’s detached at Coates and forms another train. And you can add two sections from Coates which are provided at 22:00 or 23:00 and left standing at the platforms for a few hours, so that people can enter their bed somewhat earlier if they wish.
