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 |  | After two years of a baited work, MAKING TRACKS leaves finally its new line until one waited with a certain impatience, their first production, London & South East, appeared at the end of 2004, having shown start the undeniable know-how of this company. This time, the selected area covers a part of the Great East of England with a departure of London. |
| The principal branch is represented by the line on the basis of the station of Liverpool Street, in London, until Ipswich, in Suffolk, that is to say a distance of approximately 120 km. Many secondary lines come to be grafted on this course: Thus, in Shenfield, it is possible to go in Southern Victoria in double track or Wickford in simple track. In the same way, Colchester leave several lines going to Walton, Clacton or Harwic, which gets approximately 75 km more lines in doubles tracks are electrified in 25 Kv, the others, in simple track, are with thermal traction. In short, there is for all the tastes. |
 |  | The work carried out on the line to make it possible most realistic is impressive, the creators did not haggle over the details, one finds everywhere a decoration excavated and precise, in particular with the accesses of the great agglomerations. The countryside is quite present and the sight don't stop around the track but extends very far, which is a species of innovation in the English add on which rather accustomed us to severe restrictions of this with dimensions-there! One will not complain any... |
 |  | Of course, of many stations the course marks out, since the small stop of countryside, tiny room to its simpler expression, the great stations of the principal cities, reproduced rather accurately, including in the number of tracks, often significant. There the large piece being the station of London, Liverpool Street, modernized recently, but which kept its metal framework of time conferring a certain seal to him, I checked it personally last weekend, while going to trail my feet |
 |  | i t should be noted besides that Making Tracks made the choice represent the route such as it was presented at the end the Eighties, approximately the period 1988-1992, which makes it possible to propose a large variety of rolling stocks taking into account the changes occurred at that time in the management of the British railroads |
 |  | So the number and the variety of the stock proposed are impressive. In electric traction, one finds the trains following: Class 302, Class 305, Class 309, Class 315, Class 317, Class 312 more the loco Class 96. In diesel: the locos Class 08, 31, 37, 47 as well as Class 150 DMU. All these trains have attractive cabins but there is no sight passenger |
 |  | Are added coaches of freight, the FFA-FGA container, OBA Ballast into different livery, finally of the MKII |
 |  | 15 various activities are present allowing the use of a good part of this stock, as well as a passenger as in freight, by traversing many portions of this network. They are rich in traffic, trains AI on certain activities following one another at unrestrained intervals. |
 |  | To note all the same that the density of the decorations and the high level of the details require a powerful machine, the adjustment to the maximum of the graphic performances often involves a strong deceleration of the fps (with a pentium 4 to 3.2 Ghz) harming largely the fluidity of the game but it is the other side of the coin! |
 |  | Finallye, as an amateur of English lines, I was not disappointed, far from there! as much as I like to make my own activities and, of this with dimensions-there, the possibilities are inexhaustible, indication making it possible to make circulate a significant number of trains of traffic, in particular on the long portion with 4 tracks leading in Liverpool street |
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 |  | trainss.com novembre 2006 |
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