I myself live near the 'Longdendale Trail' (Formerly known as the Woodhead Line between Manchester and Sheffield) so this map is perfect for me

Here is the link to the 14 screenshots I took of my rail network on this awesome map.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198007429344/screenshots/?appid=446800&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall

I am up to 1852, Iron Ore is finally being produced, so maybe some steel will appear for the trains to take to the two factories. I have had to add more trains for the food lines.
I just took a count of how many Train services are running, there are 38 some with more than one train operating each service.
I have just set up a road transport link from the Hope Quarry to the very large Goods Train Depot at Sheffield and have started one train on its way to the construction site west of Wakefield.
I have taken some screen shots of the complete map where you can see where all the raillines connect.

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To do this major setting of the lines was only possible by using the "No costs" application.
Currently I have a passenger service running between each pair of towns on the map, also I now have both Food Chains in operation and slowly growing, I also have the coal line in operation to Sheffield. The Iron Ore line is not yet completed as it has a longer distance to travel. So Steel is yet to be produced all though I have all the links set in operation to both the Machine Factory in Burnley and the Goods Factory near Manchester.
Further I have Logs taken by road to new Mills and by train to Barnsley, then transported by road to the sawmill. The planks/lumber are to be transported to both of the Factories by rail via the trains that bought in the Logs {Once the chain is complete that is.}
I am slowly making some money.
This appears to me the best way to run this awesome map.
In this version I have not bothered adding industries as I had done in the first Map.

I am finding this map absolutely brilliant. I have done quite a lot of refering to the Ian Allen book of maps for the routes available, I was amazed at just how many combinations are or were available. I also load up Google earth and had it sitting on screen under the Game map so as to get routes and the major tunnels as near as possible.
I have purchased some DVDs of the area from Video125 and Kingfisher, so as to get more of the flavour of the area.
My first successful attempt has me up to 1960 with the game on Medium and I was unable to recreate all the routes that I wanted.
My second attempt now has all the major routes set up except for the Hope Valley Line as I noted the Cowburn tunnel at the west end near Edale was not built until 1893. The line was finished in 1894. I am working on that basis.
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Complete Newbie to this game so anturally I chose this map even though I know this area inside out and know this is gonnna be a royal pain in the proverbial. Wish me luck

Thanks all for the comments. I have also had problems with steel from Sheffield to Burnley. I'll see if a cheaper price will help....

This is my favourite UK Map, having spent most of my life during the days of steam, in and around Manchester. One of the best routes for some splendid scenery is from Burnley on to Hebden Bridge and through the valley to Hope and finally Sheffield. It's no mean feat, so you will need to build quite a few tunnels and viaducts. There are many routes you can take on this map, which will keep you busy for quite a long time before you finally link up all the towns with rail and road connections. A really brilliant and challenging map. if you enjoy scenery. Five stars for this one.

Enjoyed playing this map. I always wanted am improved service between Leeds and Bradford. The only issue I have had is shipping steel from Sheffield to Burnley when I upgraded to 140km/h trains. Worked fine until this point but stopped after the upgrade, probably the ticket price was too high with the 140km/h trains. Went back to 90km/h and the line started working again.

I don't want the cities to grow into each other too much, although I'll admit it is fairly sparse. I've reached most areas now and got most of the goods flows working, by 1915 (with the 4x slower mod)

This map has caused a hell of a lot of swearing!!! Fantastic job!!

May I suggest you add some of the smaller stations along the routes so that you can have Northern stoppers running alongside Transpennine Express trains on the Leeds - Manchester and Manchester - Sheffield routes?

Cheers!!!

Wow - That sure is a challenging map

(and hey! Burnley is on the map! UTC!)

Looks like a fun challenge - and I also grew up in this region (well jut a little bit further North)

If you want to build a sensible line over Woodhead you will have to 'lock' the track builder to a ruling grade by clicking the up/down, fun!

Pictures added now I've tested it. It's tricky - expanded food to the max using horses, then had to build a crazy spiral over Woodhead, couldn't afford a proper Woodhead tunnel, and have had to use double headed Borsigs, only reaching 14km/h uphill!

@DerNRWzocker

It's the LYR Memorial at Manchester Victoria

The Photo I would guess at being at Manchester Victoria station.

Can someone make some south african (SAR) trains

Could you add some pictures of the map itself so that we can see what it looks like? Second question: Could you tell me where that photo was taken?

Nice, looking forward to palying with my home region