Furthest Travelled Train in Simsig

58050 in post 151768 said:

Everybody's mentioning passenger trains, but what about freight trains

Mainly passenger is easier for most to check in a GBTT. I did look in one WTT I have but did not find anything long distance via Leeds in the oil trains from west Wales.
Without a Preston sim, Holyhead is further from Crewe. So the Herbrandston - Holyhead beats the Herbrandston - Polmadie as that falls off at Wigan. A passenger would be slightly longer anyway if running via Swansea station.

I think longest run on current sims would be Llanelli (inc) - Newport - Shrewsbury - Stockport - Huddersfield - Leeds - Newcastle - Morpeth (ex).
Was there ever a train that way ?
Mails ?
Oil from West Wales ?
Steel ?
GW-LNER through coach ?

Can’t you just run in an infinite circle on Tyneside?

We need someone to organise a railtour!

Penzance - Westbury - Swindon - Didcot W Curve - Oxford - Leamington Spa - Coventry - Birmingham - Crewe - Warrington - Manchester - Huddersfield is the longest route I can find in-sim without a reversal.

If reversals at Huddersfield and Sheffield were allowed, you could run on through Penistone, Sheffield, Doncaster, York, Darlo, Newcastle to Tyne Docks :)

58050 in post 151768 said:

Everybody's mentioning passenger trains, but what about freight trains such as the Burngullow to Irvine silver bullets. IIRC that was the longest[distance wise] freight service running on the BR network. Running via Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Severn Tunnel, then right at Maindee East Jn, via The Marches to Crewe & then north via the WCML to Scotland worked by a pair of Cl.37/5 locos throughout. Most of which is covered by a sim. Passenger wise although it's not all covered on sims be 'The European' which originated at Harwich Parkeston Quay to Glasgow Central. This train used to run across country from Harwich, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Ely, March, Peterborough, Grantham, Nottingham, Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway, Chesterfield, Sheffield[loco change SF Cl.47/4 off & another one on], Stockport, Manc'r Piccadilly, Manc'r Oxford Road, Bolton Preston[loco change diesel off/AC eletric on] & the via the wcml to Glasgow Central. It ran as 1S85 07.17 Harwich Parkeston Quay to Glasgow Central & the return went via the same route in return & ran as 1E87. Then later in 1989 it was sent from Harwich up the GE to Channelsea Curve Jn over the NLL & then ran via the WCML all the way to Glasgow Central. Also for a short time this train was worked by a diesel dragging the AC electric DIT over the NLL.

The discussion has been around the longest route which can be run in SimSig with sims which chain and at some point has been released.

Bristol has never chained to Newport, and there has never been a Preston sim, which splits both of your examples in half.

Clocks in at 269 miles Cwmbargoed to New Mills Central (discounting Peak district) or 283 miles if Peak district is allowed?

In my day the route was Kensington - North Pole Junction - Old Oak thence down the GW. I don't recall a Brighton-Manchester changing engines at the Mitre when I relieved at North Pole (mid-1979 - early 1980) but I suppose it might have happened later on (when I was on the West London the Brighton-Manchester was being hailed as a brand-new initiative). The Mitre Bridge engine changes were all Motorails or specials. (Unless my memory is fading, that is.)

jc92 in post 151755 said:

Clocks in at 269 miles Cwmbargoed to New Mills Central (discounting Peak district) or 283 miles if Peak district is allowed?

There's a sim under development that will exceed that by a margin, but I'm not saying anything more than that for now.

clive in post 151794 said:

jc92 in post 151755 said:

Clocks in at 269 miles Cwmbargoed to New Mills Central (discounting Peak district) or 283 miles if Peak district is allowed?

There's a sim under development that will exceed that by a margin, but I'm not saying anything more than that for now.

Simsig Trans-Siberian Railway?

greatkingrat in post 151818 said:

clive in post 151794 said:

jc92 in post 151755 said:

Clocks in at 269 miles Cwmbargoed to New Mills Central (discounting Peak district) or 283 miles if Peak district is allowed?

There's a sim under development that will exceed that by a margin, but I'm not saying anything more than that for now.

Simsig Trans-Siberian Railway?

Highly unlikely, not least for the fact that getting the signalling data for the Russian Federation is.. not really possible.. for people IN Russia, let alone those in the 'west', and for the sim to be even remotely playable, once east of Kazan' the covered area per sim would have to be literally 1000s of km. East of the Urals you can travel for almost an entire day between major population centres.

jc92 in post 151755 said:

Clocks in at 269 miles Cwmbargoed to New Mills Central (discounting Peak district) or 283 miles if Peak district is allowed?

There's a sim under development that will exceed that by a margin, but I'm not saying anything more than that for now.

It's OK I have a friend who works in GCHQ.

Peter