Fun fact: the marker at Chatham is in the wrong place, and the marker at Gillingham is there, however it is just inside the building you stopped at. Great video though, I like going back to re-watch these in the hope my brain will finally pick it up xD
+Moleman978 I would never have known that lol XD Thanks for the info. As for the marker at Gillingham, I will check inside that building the next time I drive on this route. You can do it mole, keep trying! XD
What is the furthest you can drive in class 375 from Faversham? Because in my opinion, you should be able to drive from Faversham to London Victoria, but I'm not sure if that is the case at all - after all, this is Dovetail Games we're talking about!
a nice variation of AI in this scenario, I enjoyed seeing it go by, Armstrong powerhouse have done a good job with this. and as always you are very knowledgeable of this route and the tilbury route would be very nice aswell, maybe also a link between the GEML and hs1 could be a thing with the different lines coming from fenchurch street!
Kirkinstein AP pretty much always do a good job with their scenarios. And thanks, I agree with you. A way to link them together would be great! The route out of Fenchurch Street is near the top of my list for routes I would like to see made :)
True what you said about the route being longer, but what do dtg go and do for tsw? They also stop the route at rochester instead of a bit further 🤷🏽♂️ I watched this back then when you first recorded it, and remember thinking driving this train would be a myth lol, but since we’ve done tgv now it doesn’t seem so difficult. But one thing that annoys me about tsw is that they lack too many things, maybe by 2024 when they been around for about 6 years alot of things will become more authentic
Just to correct a comment you made about Eurostar - when they used to take the classic route before HS1 they were cleared for 100 mph in between Ashford and Tonbridge, and Sevenoaks tunnel and Hildenborough, and possible for a stretch between Ashford and Westenhangar
Yep. They did a lot of work in 1993 to upgrade the track. They also remodelled a lot of stuff including the western approaches to Tonbridge, and making platform 1 the through platform at Sevenoaks, all intended to get the Eurostar from Ashford to London in less than an hour (just).
Nicely done as always, though you did miss a couple of whistle boards near the end :-) It would be great if the HS1 line was extended down to Ashford at some point and be able to have a proper high speed run :-)
William Mankelow Haha, I find it too easy to miss whistle boards, especially if I glance down at my notes for a sec! I agree with you, I'd have preferred it if they went down to Ashford in the first place lol :)
why does the emergency brake come on... i'm not breaking speed limit.... it just comes on. i can't turn off and train wont go forward. I have no choice but restart. Bloody annoying :)
Hello, the Class 395 is also setup with the french KVB system (left hand side of the cabin): according to some web sites, the section between St Pancras and London tunnel 1 is under KVB in stead of AWS. More over it is a requierment on HS1: it checks the TVM status and if TVM breakes down, the KVB will apply emergency brake.
Lol good point.. Funny how the line branches off to go to rochester, but if they had actually let us go to Ashford for example, it would truly be a high speed route
+Cody Sayle Of course. When this video was made, it was on my old PC which was: AMD Phenom II X6 3.2ghz processor, 8gb DDR3 1333mhz RAM and an AMD Radeon HD6970 2gb graphics card. Since the release of TS2016, I'm now using: Intel Core i7 4790k 4ghz processor, 16gb Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 1866mhz RAM, Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 4gb graphics card :)
