Multiplayer Escapades of an Unholy Phish

[echo moat]

I'm going to document my doings in a private multiplayer server here. Realism-inspired UK networks a plenty.

I'm the yellow company in this server. I've built most of my tracks now so I'm focusing on getting the services going, then decorating the towns and countryside later

Where better to start than the approaches to the London terminus for my intercity services

again undercorated as I'm focusing on track diagrams and service patterns first

[humble summit]

Ooh, very nice!

[echo moat]

Another important image being the diagram for my planned services

tiny London terminus

carbon copy of Marylebone platform layout

[heavy trellis]

What GRF did you use for the signal gantries?

[echo moat]

Sadly unreleased

I wish I could share it

[heavy trellis]

Rip, hoping it gets released soon as gantries are sorely needed

In all forms as well as standard signals

[echo moat]

JGR is also needed for these signals too

[opal mango]

Yes I was gonna say, those signals look great! Biggest thing I miss from transport fever 2

[heavy trellis]

Luckily I play JGR lol

[half copper]

Oh sick I was hoping you would do one of these

No OHLE? All diesel time?

[humble summit]

Looks like Minories with the offset approach tracks

[echo moat]

correct

[echo moat]

Oh Wyndbain built an actual Minories on the other side of the city

[echo moat]

took me a while yeah lol

[humble summit]

I should do that

[echo moat]

First timetabled line

2 tph serving a remote home-counties line that doesn't even connect the neighbouring region it heads towards

also does stuff like being the minor station in two towns it serves (Whitecroft Town and Droitwich Town)

1 tph serves all stations, 1 tph stops only at Whitecroft Town, Lancing, and Droitwich Town

here's the terminus station at Telford, including light maintenance shed and carriage sidings

[wraith niche]

Why was I not aware of this

[heavy trellis]

unknown, but i'm still praying we get the gantry signals at some point

as they'd be so helpful

[wraith niche]

Yeah me too

[echo moat]

First terminus with full service

not fully complete

well, all services are running, but the timetables aren't final

I already see two conflicting departues that I forgot to fix

[echo moat]

New map for the multiplayer game, so new termini, and a new fleet to serve my planned area

I've got this whole area to fill

[half copper]

Hello kitty 500 series 🫡

[wraith niche]

I'm gonna tell my kids that was the connex class 395

[echo moat]

expanded my desired fleet

also started running some branch line services

two class 150s doing a very short branch to a lakeside town

this is what i've built so far (yellow company)

it's going to be three competing companies + a high speed line

all three companies + the hsl will have access to this second city near the capital

(when it's built lol)

doing all the infrastructure first, then build up decoration while implementing services

Two competing third rail companies serving a future valley city

all three companies will serve this city, with two of them having direct trains to the capital via many different routes, but one of them will only be serving the city with regional diesel expresses

the HSL avoids the city and tunnels under the neighbouring lake, with a branch verging off to join the OHLE lines as an express commuter service to the capital

a major urban interchange between regional and urban services connecting with the HSL

[echo moat]

the HSL splits here to either avoid or go through this city

[wraith niche]

lovely

[echo moat]

here is the where the diverging HSL branches merge again, interchanging with one of the third rail companies, and I'm going to put an airport on the flat ground next to it

note the OHLE line passing under it all, which will have its own separate station for the airport

the main function of that line is a freight avoider for the city

now it's time for some silly junction appretiation

a 165 is seen arriving here on another branch line service (I quite like the design of this station)

that's all folks, another dump will be inbound in around 2 months

[polar depot]

thats a nice 373

[echo moat]

release soon™️

[echo moat]

Metro terminus and depot

[wooden crescent]

hey phish where did you get the eurostar?

[echo moat]

Oh it's in rukts but it hasn't been released yet

[wooden crescent]

aww

[echo moat]

You can download a dev version from the GitHub though

[wooden crescent]

could i pretty please get a link?

[wraith niche]

https://github.com/StarRaid/Representitive-UK-Trainset/blob/master/rukts.grf

[wooden crescent]

thankyou very much

can i replace the bananas version with this?

[unkempt mortar]

Probably

[wooden crescent]

alr thankyou very much

[wooden crescent]

one thing could i ask about sukts, will there ever be custom tunnel sprites added?

[echo moat]

I hope so

I'm at uni now so any work being done in the near future is very unlikely

[wooden crescent]

damn, but good luck with uni

[echo moat]

ok new map time, been doing this game for a month or two now so it's time for some updates

as usual i am yellow company, very big network this map, having to snake or haggle my way to the captial in red, running essentially four sectors all in one company

i've got my chiltern lowlands at 1, my south midlands at 2, me highland stagecoach at 3, and me saltire region at 4, with capital bound and cross country intercity services going between

with the respective stock of each area, includng intercity services

iv'e started decorating in parts, but not done with them. I'm in the stage of having all the track built, just decorating the stations first, then moving on to surrounding towns and such

i always build in this order:

1 - Track, signals
2 - Stations, speed restrictions
3 - Trains, with timetables
4 - Railway deco
5 - Urban deco
6 - Countryside deco

some places are just decorated stations right now, without speed restrictions programmed yet

some places are nearly fully fleshed, with trains timetable and town mostly decorated

This as yet unnamed town at the bottom most tip of the map I'm very excited for. Though it will be somewhat extensive, it will recieve very little service. Only one regional train per hour, 3 trains from the capital per day, and only 2 extra cross country services per day

Morddore will be the regional capital of the highland areas

Final dump of locations in varying levels of non-completeness

here is Cwmbran Junction, with a full days timetable of departures too. This line is fully done train wise, including local freight, while only missing two freight trains to fill the final slots of this tightly organised mountain network

lastly i just want to show this traverser that i made for this depot (and another one in one of the previous screenshots)

it's hard to pull off but I think I got the effect off quite well

very useful for carriage works

they're not common in the UK anymore, but i know they've got them at wolverton and derby

time to hibernate for another 3 months now

ooo there's one at the rail technical centre too!

[wooden crescent]

There was one at everleigh railway workshops before jt shut down

Still there

[nocturne light]

Louis needs to finish wigan pier >:(

Also
@humble summit did it with the crane tracks

[opal mango]

the crane tracks are cool but i do appreciate the depth the concrete road adds

[echo moat]

Yeah that's a good one too

Missing the actual traverser there though

[humble summit]

I didn’t think of the turntable, that’s clever

[half copper]

Phish be posting again now everyone's gonna know where I get all my eye candy ideas from

[nocturne light]

this is also the first game where they are not london maxxing

[wraith niche]

Acton has one too