My guess at the next sim

London Bridge still has yet to be finaliser, however I think it could be Croydon re-releaed as the Three Bridges section filling the gap of Brighton/Victoria sims..?

London Bridge still has yet to be finaliser, however I think it could be Croydon re-releaed as the Three Bridges section filling the gap of Brighton/Victoria sims..?

I wouldn't be me if I didn't have a surprise up my sleeve for later this month for everybody to enjoy...............

(Snigger.)

I might be reading too much into something, but...

There were four sims updated today. Three sims had (public) known issues - Portsmouth, Stafford and Feltham. The fourth is a sim that, to me at least, appeared to function perfectly. That sim is Aston, which chains to Birmingham New Street and Stafford fine already, and would also chain to Derby were it released. This fringe is a slotted single-line section so is not something trivially easy to get right first time if the other sim doesn't yet exist (in a usable form for chaining). My guess is this was Aston being updated in advance of the new Derby sim being released so that chaining will work from the outset.

We know Derby has long been in development because it had a (very) limited release quite a while ago.

(We can assume Saltley's update will be complex given it's an exe sim and it needs to enable chaining to Birmingham New Street, and we know that the existing North East/East Midlands sims are also very hard to update since it was mentioned previously as being hard work on this forum, so that would explain why we haven't seen updates to those, yet).

Again, this might be me reading far too much into it, but if I had to put money on it, Derby would be the one.

I understand that the area has been almost completely recontrolled and resignalled now, and I can't remember if the new signalbox is in the conflict of interest list or not. In any case, the current sim is for Saltley PSB, and since we haven't experienced sims actually changing the signalbox they simulate in the past, I doubt we'd experience it now.

If we'll get the new Saltley track layout at all, I expect it'll either be "hacked on" to the existing layout (ie not prototypical of real life), or in an entirely new sim.

(Once again, apologies if I'm putting words in anyone's mouths)

I understand that the area has been almost completely recontrolled and resignalled now, and I can't remember if the new signalbox is in the conflict of interest list or not. In any case, the current sim is for Saltley PSB, and since we haven't experienced sims actually changing the signalbox they simulate in the past, I doubt we'd experience it now.

Never say never, I've always intended for Llangollen to follow the railways development over time, and hopefully at some point that will mean an extra signal box.

I'm going to hope (and inevitably be disappointed) that the new sim is a Manchester Area sim, although, this probably won't come out until the upgrade works are completed.