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I Have Managed to make progress on two stations these past few days: Finniston and Finniston Halt. Finniston is a small village along the branch line, that is only made up of a row of houses and shops on one road. Most of the land is under the ownership of the Finniston family who own the local farm, the skyline is dominated by Finniston castle and (due to monetary trouble) a wind farm. Finniston halt was built as a place for tourists to enjoy the boating lake and is still open today albeit with the bare minimum of facilities. Obviously i still have a lot more to do - mainly its just scenery and signals to do but i also hope to do a bit more fine tuning before the V1 release Regards - Ash

I am having a look into the cuckoo trail as it may have been today as a coulda (and shoulda) line. I will look into the colour aspect of it at the moment the detail level of objects is set to full and over gameplay detail is at high, However i think i may be at the best i can get without splashing a grand or two on new parts for my pc still i will look to see if i can adjust any setting for better colour

Managed to finish the seaside town of Kirrin on the route, fairly happy with my work although i do have another 39 miles of work to do The seaside town of Kirrin was originally a town where cargo ships would berth and exchange goods. These days all goods are sorted at the rail served depot just outside of Ford Road and the docks have been taken over by a pleasure boat company that hires boats out for holidays and provides ferry trips. The town itself is still growing albeit slowly, and its small but sandy beach is becoming very popular with tourists. Kirrin station (i am aware of the 'flooding' on the left and will get that sorted) The town of Kirrin looking from the old docks The rail line out of Kirrin passing the pleasure boat yard hope you like my first finished town next down the line is the villiage of Finniston complete with a castle! https://www.facebook.com/Lordbickerstaffsrailsimexploits

I've been rather quiet on here recently, mostly because I'm sorting out my wedding and work is rather busy, but also because I've been investing a lot of time in Train simulator 2013. As you may gather from my other blogs I've been making scenarios for the game that get hosted online via a platform called Steam. I've made a fair few more which are available for download too and I've put them all in a collection available here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=116139080 Unfortunately Steam cannot take anything that has been created outside of it, this is mainly third party free and payware which is absolutely brilliant! I can add much more realism to the trains and routes with different wagons and livery's Anyway short story is I'm still making scenarios for this sim only they are hosted by a website now, still free to download and much more realistic. I will post details of them in my next entry. Lastly i'm undertaking the 'laborious' task of building a route from scratch which when finished should have a good 30-45 miles of track to run on. I've laid the branch line and have begun to detail the terminus station called 'Kirrin' here's a teaser: lots more to do! If you have facebook you can follow my page which tends to get updated daily : https://www.facebook.com/Lordbickerstaffsrailsimexploits Until next time!

wish this railway was real - then could get the train to Alfriston for my wedding!!!!!!