What happened to Euston?

Loader Euston has been in alpha test for some time. There have been delay because of personal problems I've been dealing with, but a snapshot went to testers on Friday night; I'm waiting for feedback. There's also still at least one bug to fix before it can move to beta testing.

Euston is now part of the Wembley Mainline loader sim. It seems unlikely that a stand-alone Euston sim would be rereleased as well as then there would be two sims covering the same area.

In fact I remember some possibly ill-advised thinking out loud from a while back that it might be a good idea to have the old PSBs at Euston, Willesden, Watford Junction (full) Bletchley etc. in parallel to the modern sims with Rugby SCC, Wembley ASC etc. I'm not suggesting this will or even can happen, but it was definitely a nice idea, whoever's it was .... :P

TUT in post 130364 said:

In fact I remember some possibly ill-advised thinking out loud from a while back that it might be a good idea to have the old PSBs at Euston, Willesden, Watford Junction (full) Bletchley etc. in parallel to the modern sims with Rugby SCC, Wembley ASC etc. I'm not suggesting this will or even can happen, but it was definitely a nice idea, whoever's it was .... :P

It has certainly been mused as an idea, but unless a lot of information and time comes up, I doubt it would happen, sadly. The older areas/eras do tend to be more complex in signalling and shunting, though sometimes less busy for passenger trains.

GeoffM in post 130371 said:

TUT in post 130364 said:

In fact I remember some possibly ill-advised thinking out loud from a while back that it might be a good idea to have the old PSBs at Euston, Willesden, Watford Junction (full) Bletchley etc. in parallel to the modern sims with Rugby SCC, Wembley ASC etc. I'm not suggesting this will or even can happen, but it was definitely a nice idea, whoever's it was .... :P

It has certainly been mused as an idea, but unless a lot of information and time comes up, I doubt it would happen, sadly. The older areas/eras do tend to be more complex in signalling and shunting, though sometimes less busy for passenger trains.

Yes it was your post I remembered back from July 2014 (https://www.SimSig.co.uk/Forum/PostView/62883)! See we do listen guv'nor :P

I didn't like to imply to anyone it was on the cards though, but thought it was relevant to this thread that the WCML PSBs and today's Wembley ASC and Rugby SCC, let alone tomorrow's Rugby ROC, are quite separate and different

Yeah, I should play more older timetables really, they do seem to be more fun, but perhaps lacking in service frequency sometimes

Yes, Euston is that old. It was the third (I think) sim I wrote. I recall that we did a preview at the York meeting (who remembers that?) where some nasty bugs in the multiplayer logic showed up.

Loader Euston has been in alpha test for some time. There have been delay because of personal problems I've been dealing with, but a snapshot went to testers on Friday night; I'm waiting for feedback. There's also still at least one bug to fix before it can move to beta testing.

So it *will* appear, but I can't promise when. It will be ready when it's ready.

My next project will be to convert Cambridge to Loader. There will *probably* be an intermediate release that just replicates what was in the EXE rather than including all the layout changes that have happened since it was first written (though, of course, having all the stuff the Loader has). Again, no timescales.

[I'm the developer of Cambridge and Euston, so you may take this as authoritative.]

Really wonderful news to hear Cambridge is in the pipeline.

Euston is however in the process of being updated to a loader sim so it will be ready when its ready