Appologies...

I'd just like to apologise for the delay in these photos, this has been because of some issues with steam which have now been resolved. Anyway here they are, enjoy:

Oh and one other thing, I'm going to start the weekly edited image again.

Signals Update

Signalling Dinworth Central Station is now nearly complete pictures very soon.

Update

Route building is going well, will shortly (next few hours or so) be starting to (finally) add signals to the Dinworth Central Approach. Will post pictures soon, maybe a before and after shot if I can find a picture of it before all the work.

Route Building Resumes

After just over a month of emailing Railworks Support we have come to the conclusion that I require more RAM in my computer to stop it crashing, unfortunately I will not be able to afford the upgrade until after Christmas. So to keep route building going I am reverting to my last Railworks 3 Backup and will be using that until I get the RAM upgrade. This should mean normal service will resume. I would also like to thank those who have viewed my blog this month and helped make it the month the blog has been viewed the most in, I noticed that a large proportion of these views are from Russia and the Ukraine, so perhaps in the future I may develop something for that region of Europe. Anyway thanks again.

The Joys of Forgetting to Back Up

Well I forgot to back up and another problem has struck and meant I have had to revert to my last TS2012 back up which has none of the new OLE around Dinworth, so it's back to square 1. Hopefully I'll be where I was last night by next Sunday.

Route Building can resume......?

I think that the problem seems to have just stopped, I am hoping that it won't come back, but in the meantime I'm working faster than before to try and catch up a bit, however all the OLE around Dinworth Central is now complete, just a little bit on the approach to apply and then I can finally try the erm... stressful task of signalling the entire thing.

Apologies

I apologise for the lack of posts however I have little to post about to be honest, I have made little if any progress since the launch of Railworks 4: Trainsimulator 2013. This has been due to the world editor constantly crashing, to give you an idea of how bad this problem has been the progress I have made is to add 15 OLE pieces around Dinworth. Which is looking a lot better after the addition of some rather tall buildings (which were added before RW 4: TS2013) from London to Brighton and the North East Corridor Route, including the Shard and Empire state building (which has a rather nice view of the station from the top of it, I might add a picture when I sort the problem out. I feel that these buildings help to make Dinworth feel less flat and add some nice features to look at.

Railworks 4:Train Simulator 2013, what a farce.

To start I'd like to praise Railsimulator.com on improving both graphics and performance as well as some new, quite useful, route building tools. However I'd much rather have kept both the old menu and F3 HUD.

Once again I was disappointed to discover that every time I launch the editor it crashes at some point so unfortunately route building will be much slower than usual  for some time.

Dinworth Remodelling

As part of the remodelling of Dinworth Central I am increasing the mainline from 4 to 6 tracks out of the station simply to make signalling easier, although the track work for the extra lines has proven quite difficult because of the pre-existing layout which without removing 20 (yes twenty) miles of track cannot be made simpler. I may post some before and after pics of the work if I can find some good photos of the old track work.

Signalling Reaches Dinworth

Finally the Signalling work reaches Dinworth which in it's current state is not fit for signals because of the complex and very tight nature of the track combined with the limitations of Signalling in Railworks. So I am redoing a large percentage of the track from scratch and leaving virtually nothing untouched which should hopefully both make adding signalling doable and easy whilst increasing the realistic feel of the station. I would also like to apologise for the lack of posts recently, I have been rather busy over the summer, I went to Barcelona for five days in July immediately followed by my work experience at Nissan Sunderland both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, a couple of weeks later went to stay at my father's work colleague's static caravan in Warkworth for a fortnight which was good as well. So I have been rather busy but I shall get the weekly photos and regular posts sorted out for you again now that things are calming down again ready for school.

Vote, Vote, Vote

Not much time left to vote on the poll so vote on which train you want to see in my edited image next week.

A little Bonus

A game of spot the difference.

Class 150, This Weeks Edited Image

This weeks weekly edited image, the class 150.

Don't forget to vote for next weeks image on the right of the screen--->--->

Or on the facebook page.

This Weeks Edited Image(s)

It took a little longer than usual to get the right colour for the headlights but, I think it worked in the end.

PS. Don't forget to vote on the poll on the right.

Roll Up, Roll Up

For one week only I'm releasing two images (both of the Class 50) because I couldn't decide which view was best, so watch out they should be on here by half eight.

Long Time No Post

Sorry it's been a while but I've had quite a few exams to prepare for and another two on Monday, however I hope to have the class 50 image up tonight provided Railworks doesn't have a hiccup, don't forget about the facebook page too.

PS. Vote for next weeks image either on the facebook page or on the right of the page ---->---->

Signalling Gets the Red light

I'm pausing the development of the route for a couple of days because I have quite a few important GCSEs to revise for but I will still have the Class 50 image for Friday.

PS. Don't forget to vote on the poll before Sunday, or vote on the facebook page.

Signalling Continues

Signalling continues northwards towards Elkington, and Trindale, which should be signalled by the Weekend, perhaps with some more photos.

Voting again

Don't forget to vote for next weeks train over to your right -----> ----->

The Class 50 is Upon Us!

You have chosen for me to edit an image of the Class 50 this week, I will have the image ready by Friday

Back to Signaling

I have moved back on to signalling North of Exington after finishing the Lag reduction, the lag is almost unnoticeable now. I hope to have the line signalled up to Trindale by Saturday.

PS. You only have a few minutes left to vote so vote on your right now -->

Exington

Lag reduction is in progress at Exington, for some unknown reason it has become very lag prone recently, so I'm changing things up a bit so that it will be mostly lag free and still very detailed.

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The Flying Scotsman, this Weeks Image

I know some of you have been excited about this and here it is, hope you like it and don't forget to vote for next week's image.

GNER Tributes

I'm sure that some of you at least will agree that GNER was one of the greatest operators in the UK, and has been greatly missed especially because of the knowledge that it cannot return because the parent company Sea Containers Ltd. collapsed after they lost the ECML. I have recently decided that when I get time I too shall create a tribute, I also have music planned for it, a virtual cookie for you, but I wondered what you people thought would be some good music for it, or perhaps you have created your own tribute for GNER, I'm sure we'd all love to see your work, please do comment below or on the facebook page.

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To the Polls

Don't forget to vote on the poll before Friday either here or on the Facebook page to get your favourite train put into the editing software!

The Public have Spoken!

Well you all decided on the Flying Scotsman for the train in the next image which I will have up by Friday, the next poll for next week has commenced and ends this Friday so get voting, on here or on Facebook.

The Poll Ends Soon!

There's little time left to vote on the poll either to your right or on he facebook page, our current leader is the Flying Scotsman. So vote now and take your mind of the weather!

The Infamous British Weather

Well, I think most of us know that the British weather can be bad at times, I don't know about where you all live but up here in Sunderland we've had a lot of rain, a bit like in Aberystwyth only obviously no where near as bad. So what's the weather like where you live? But don't forget to vote on the poll over to the right --->
Only 1 day left now, or you can vote on our facebook page if you prefer at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dinworth-to-Barnsham-Development-page/281501705213967

Time is a ticken'

Last few days to vote for a train for me to edit an image of. RQ4WA8GA3B37

Your opinion matters

Look to the right of this post to vote on what train you'd like to see me create and edited image of in Railworks (like the one below), voting ends this Sunday so you'd better hurry up. The Flying Scotsman and the Pendolino are our current leaders.

Paparazzi Time

I have decided after seeing the results of my photo editing skills I didn't know I had for the Diamond Jubilee Competition that I will now make a photo a week of a train chosen by you (which ever one gets the most suggestions) and edit it to the best of my ability. So what train should I do for the week commencing on Monday the 11th of June? Something modern and up to date, a Pendolino perhaps? Or a blast from the past, a class 33 perhaps? Or something a bit older, the Flying Scotsman perhaps? Of course it doesn't have to any of those three it could be anything, you decide (as long as I have the train on railworks that is).

Diamond Jubilee Competition

Well Since Railsimulator.com doesn't like me and hasn't put my entries up on the page I might as well post them here in Chronological order.