English Teamwork 2 planning and discussion

[1993matias]

Good evening

I would rather not as shunting time in Redbanks is very short (10-20 minutes) and space is not a lot. Then I would prefer the two separate trains solution with extra seating cars the whole way.

I can place the seating cars at the front. In Redbanks, they can then be removed and stored together with my locomotives. That should save time and storage space.

Maybe, but then I would have to redo the shunting tracks the locomotives use. I don't think that many passengers will be using the night trains at those hours anyway. The trains to/from Warstones can get seating cars attached in Rhennir (last stop on my side of the border) instead? Seeing as they don't have any seating cars at all... Of course this is depending on the time the train stays in the station and whether there is a locomotive change anyway.

There is also a possibility for a 2nd night train from way west via Cairndow all the way to Bordele (Cairndow eastwards ~3:45, westwards ~3:45)

More trains sound good. The islands and the mountains are able to soak up a lot of tourists. But both directions at the same time?

Yes, they seem to meet in Cairndow according to my estimates. Both directions daily, why not?

Great! I'll plan with IR23 in Wiley around :46 instead of the current :16

The line from Torkham to Willey is dead straight and 120km/h slow. You might be able to get an earlier arrival and a later departure in Willey if you find somebody to raise the line speed while not putting in too many curves.

How does this timetable look to you? The number of IR23 extensions to Bordele are not limited by anything, but I decided on four because that is a nice number. IR23 is half an hour offset from my IC1 between Willey and Bordele. Thus the timings on my end would be really nice to keep. I wonder how mountainous the line from Willey to Torkham is to justify those travel times?

[1993matias]

Good morning!

There is also a possibility for a 2nd night train from way west via Cairndow all the way to Bordele (Cairndow eastwards ~3:45, westwards ~3:45)

More trains sound good. The islands and the mountains are able to soak up a lot of tourists. But both directions at the same time?

Yes, they seem to meet in Cairndow according to my estimates. Both directions daily, why not?

My estimates were wrong! Current night trains planned in Montspoor are as follows with an additional two suggested timings for new trains:

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Train no    | 694 | 594 | 698 | 598*| S | 500 | 502 |
Pembroke    |     |     | 0:06|     | u |     |     |
Warstones   |21:30|     |  -  |     | g |     |     |
Cairndow    |  -  |22:51|  -  | 1:50| g | 0:50| 3:50|
Redbanks arr|23:17|23:20| 2:06| 2:25| e | 1:20| 4:20|
Redbanks dep| --> |23:30| --> | 2:35| s | 1:30| 4:30|
Coates  arr |     | 1:12|     | 4:32| t | 3:29| 6:29|
Coates  dep |     | 1:36|     | 4:47| i | 3:47|     |
Flornes     |     | 4:18|     | 6:28| o | 5:28|     |
Bordele C   |     | 5:38|     | 7:34| n | 6:34|     | 

* = only train part from 698 continue from Coates to Bordele on IC 111


Train no    | 587*| 687 | 599 | 699 | S | 581§| 599 |
Bordele C   |20:01|     |23:31|     | u |19:31|23:01|
Flornes     |21:14|     | 1:00|     | g |20:40| 0:14|
Coates arr  |22:45|     | 2:45|     | g |22:15| 1:45|
Coates dep  |23:52|     | 3:00|     | e |22:22| 1:52|
Redbanks arr| 1:53| >-- | 4:53| >-- | s | 0:40| 3:53|
Redbanks dep| 2:06| 2:43| 5:06| 5:00| t | 1:06| 4:06|
Cairndow    | 2:42|  -  | 5:42|  -  | i | 1:42| 4:42|
Warstones   |     |  -  |     | 7:00| o |     |     |
Pembroke    |     | 5:10|     |     | n |     |     |

* = only train part to 687 from Bordele to Coates on IC 176
§ = possibly only start in Coates as a return trip of 502

I could possibly extend the train number 502 all the way to Bordele arriving at around ten, but I'm not sure it would work out as a fast connection due to other traffic. The opposite return trip 581 might also need reworked timings along the way. Exchanging Warstones for Cairndow as direction is entirely doable if you so wish.