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Rail Route

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Fintails

In 1 collection by Hengstpower3000
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Part of a small career-style level series.

58 trains (31 Regular Passenger, 21 Freight, 1 Empty, 5 Shunting)
Time: 1:33h (11:42 - 13:15)
Max Score: 2180 (100% possible)
No Signal penalties

After a few days in Copenhagen it is time for you to follow your next assignment into the valley of Fintails. Located in a run-down area with a huge, still operating steel mill and some medium sized factories, freight and passenger trains are fighting for free track slots. The infrastructure on this railway hub of nation-wide importance has seen severe cutbacks in the 1990s and now faces capacity issues due to the recent rise in freight and passenger traffic.

As the infrastructure cannot meet 21st century requirements you will have to prepare a lot of shunting and reversing maneuvers in order to get the freight trains to their destination without interfering with the passenger trains. Right off the start you will have to manage the 12:00 meeting of the recently introduced fixed interval timetable. Navigate huge loads of freight trains through the station while the next wave of local trains is incoming around 12:30 and finally, as you got most trains out of the way, manage the 13:00 symmetrical minute. Furthermore an overhead wire failure on another main line requires wide re-routings with some trains having to pass your area too! Pay special attention to the single-tracked destination stations to avoid trains standing face to face!

X, IX: Express, International Express Trains
L: Local / Regional Passenger Trains
FI, FT: Freight trains
ST: Shunting trains

All track infrastructure is fictional! Timetables were hand-built based on realistic service patterns. As there of course is no real world maps, make sure to visit the network map to get an overview!

Kudos to the community members who test-played this map multiple times before release!

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Update 12/11/21:
- Removed the confusing Dead End next to Cleaning track North
8 Comments
Hengstpower3000  [author] 2 Jan, 2022 @ 7:21am 
Hey Wolfie, looked into it. The 11:50 arrival passing in Skepting and arrival at Dyls is intended as the train barely needs 30 seconds to arrive. I do not know why it was set to 55 instead of 56 (for B2 and B3 it is at the correct 56). This is adjusted now, thanks for noting!
Wolfie_ 1 Jan, 2022 @ 8:56pm 
L92B1 is giving an unavoidable(?) late-penalty for me. Arrives Skepting (1) @ 11:50 (passing), then has to arrive Dyls (1) also @ 11:50 (!) ,departs 11:51am, however even using the shortest path along the fastest track can find, unable to arrive Fintails May Street (8) by 11:55.

Anyone else getting this?
Hengstpower3000  [author] 10 Dec, 2021 @ 12:42pm 
Actually let me change it, now that you say it I agree haha.
titan2002 10 Dec, 2021 @ 6:40am 
Ah ok, its a bit confusing then. expected the short one there as the station :D
Hengstpower3000  [author] 10 Dec, 2021 @ 5:02am 
Hey Titan, Cleaning Track North is the station 2 track above with an (1) in it, not the short ende on the left next to it (thats reserved for possible loco-shunting in the future). Hope it works now!
titan2002 10 Dec, 2021 @ 3:48am 
doesnt work to me, the train station for the north washing station is to short, the train cant enter it.
Vomit Coffin 3 Nov, 2021 @ 9:18am 
Really enjoyed this one. Some nice little "puzzles" here and there that made me reload my saves quite a few times to get the timings down. Thank you!
jeroen888 31 Oct, 2021 @ 9:05am 
Another very well made map. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to make these. Keep them coming!