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Industrial Shunting Route. It's Grim up North. Final
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Tags: steam, Somerset & Dorset Railway Route, Hatchet Hill Quarry, Modellers Asset Pack, Foliage Pack, #ts14, Final, Route, 0-4-0 Saddletank Pack 2 Add-On Livery, Woodhead Line, #rout{a7597676-4a29-421c-93cf-50458b12dde4}, #scnr{a21c9054-ae54-431d-880c-91f1b75ed522}
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Industrial Shunting Route. It's Grim up North. Final

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THE COTTONOPOLIS CANAL NAVIGATION & RAILWAY Co. Ltd.

This is the final version of "it's Grim up North" a shunting route based in an industrial estate in the North West of England.



Set in the 1960/70's with steam fading and the railways in general fighting against road transport.



Based on my chilhood recolections of walking round the Trafford Park industrial estate in Manchester. The route has several lines with indusrial sidings branching of as needed.



I hope that this route captures the dereliction and decay of the early 70's when shipping was becoming containerised and the Manchester Ship Canal was losing trade to the road hauliers.



The video was shot quite early on in the "work in progress" stage. This should be viewed as an idication of the route only, sorry for the quality....not using the best PC at this end.



A quick word about the HIGH LEVEL LOOP. The H.L.L. is to be used as a scenic backdrop only. There are 4 destination markers, HLL 1-4. If you create an AI train it can be made to run along the HLL by using GO VIA instructions. I.E. Train HL1 will start at marker HLL1 then GO VIA HLL3, HLL1, HLL3, HLL1, Final destination HLL3. Train HL3 will GO VIA HLL1, HLL3........FINAL DESTINATION HLL1. etc the same for HL2 & HL4. Notice the odd and even numbers are paired. This should give you about 45 mins running time on the High Level Loop.

Here is a link to a High Level Loop timetable blueprint :- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874121684 this should at least get you started and yes, 45 mis running time was very optomistic on my part.

Here is the first proper scenario for the route :- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=878204055
And another ;- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=883404651
33 Comments
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Rammy 1 May @ 11:38am 
This route looks Amazing don't know how i haven't found this before today, i lived though the 1950's as a child and remember coal fires and all the Factories churning out the Grime. Thank You.
Simon Kirkbright  [author] 22 Mar, 2023 @ 12:13pm 
midenjohn, I tried to use level crossings to stop the cars but to no avail, so I just close my eyes and hope for the best!
mindenjohn 22 Mar, 2023 @ 8:09am 
Very impressive route and reminds me of the 60s in the Manchester/Halifax/Huddersfield/Leeds areas. Just enough grime and lots of "hidden" sidings. Not happy with the road users ploughing through my train LOL
Not.Silent 22 Oct, 2021 @ 6:18pm 
Well Simon, I have published 10 scenarios on your route, and they are all getting support.
I will re-visit the route at a later date.
Luckily I now know my way around a bit, and in the future I won't be spending most of my time trying to figure out where the hell I am!! I had great fun, so thank you so much for creating this route. Well done.
Not.Silent 18 Oct, 2021 @ 6:43am 
Just to add my thoughts again. This route is brilliant. I am looking forward to adding a J94 soon.
Not.Silent 18 Oct, 2021 @ 6:38am 
Hi Simon, You might like to try my N.S786, to see what is manufactured at Hick, Hargreaves & Co. I had some fun with it.
Not.Silent 16 Oct, 2021 @ 10:14pm 
That is great Warwick.
Officially I gather, the air quality near my grandparent's was the 4th worst in Britain.
It was amazing travelling up from Kent (we lived on hill east of Canterbury, with wheat opposite, hops and orchards), as I would smell it in between Sheffield and Rotherham. To me as a a child it was incredibly exciting. The smells were intoxicating, as I could officially have dirty mucky fun - as there was NO option! The road kerb had cinders and black dust lining it all the time, which was to be avoided if there was a strong wind.
The best smell though was the fish & chip shop at the corner of the road 1 minute away, where large shop cut chips were served, in an open cone of newspaper.
Warwick Rail 16 Oct, 2021 @ 6:44pm 
It was on a visit to a small urban pigsty in Macclesfield, in Cheshire, in the late 1950s at the age of 5, that I was taught a local variation on a famous little rhyme.

"Dear beloved brethren, isn't it a sin
To peel a new potato and throw away the skin?
The skin feeds the pigs, and the pigs feed thee;
Dear beloved brethren, wouldst thou not agree?"

The smell of the pigsty was fairly strong, although not unpleasant on that particular occasion.

Adding odour to Train Simulator is an interesting idea. Used sparingly and with appropriate user-configured options it could very well enhance the experience at various locations in the game - especially with historical routes and scenarios. Not for everybody though, hence my point about "user-configured options." One option might be to turn off all odours completely.
Simon Kirkbright  [author] 16 Oct, 2021 @ 2:36pm 
The smell of a hundred domestic coal fires, several industrial processes, a bakery, an urban pig farm(not uncommon at this time) and to top it off, a tannery(they stink like cat pee on steroids) be thankful that TS is NOT in smelly vision!
Not.Silent 12 Oct, 2021 @ 8:23pm 
Hi Simon,
Well I am finally creating on your great route. I am finding it a challenge to figure out where I am at any one time, which is all part of the fun.
I intend doing a 10 part collection, to firstly utilise your route's DLC only, to get used to it. Once I was told Hatchet Hill Quarry is still available (with Warwick Rail's help) to purchase, I thought I would stay with your original version, as it has the ratings.

I'm not sure if I have told you, but the film 'Tread Softly Stranger', was filmed next door to my grandparents house, which looked down on the Parkgate Steelworks from their back wall, and my grandfather did night shifts there. The steelworks is where the film is based, and it was filmed there. As a child I looked down on it all, and trainspotted at the Midland station featured. The 'Pines Express' went through from Bournemouth and the Somerset & Dorset.

So in a nutshell, I really enjoy the visual 'atmosphere' of this route - but where's the smell??!!