Recent content by JohnMcL7

Satisfactory is an absolutely amazing game and very much lives up to the name, what I like about the game is that it's not fussy about how you build anything so you can make an absolutely mess of a factory line which you don't get penalised for at all. However I found as I progressed through...

I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of a 158 and sounds like the scenarios/timetables are lacking for the route and the 170 but still bought the Fife Circle, I used to commute daily between Edinburgh and Dundee on a 170 so I'm quite excited to get a route I've travelled on regularly and a train...

I thought they were only going to charge VED at the standard rate and EVs would be excluded from the over £40K rate which seemed a reasonable compromise given the high RRP of electric cars but I think you're right they're going to be charged the same as other cars above 40K. That's surely going...

If you want to e-mail them to me (my e-mail is my username @ gmail.com) I can upload and share them here. If you'd like to do it yourself, if you have a Microsoft account you get a small amount of free storage you can upload the photos to and then choose the embed option which will give you a...

In case you're not aware you can search completed listings on ebay which gives a better idea how many have been sold recently and what price they've been going for, looking at recent sales they appear to have sold for around the £500 mark and in a couple of them they went for best offers rather...

I did buy Trainz in the game and I've had some brief goes at it but really not sure what I'm doing with it, what's the best way to get started particularly if I want to use the 68s?

When my inkjet printer died I also went for a laser printer which in my case was a Brother model with a document feeder and scanner on top which came to around £130 I think. I believe it works with third party toner but I don't actually know yet as I haven't had to buy any since the toner is...

Ah that's with the diesel legends DLC I'm assuming? I don't have that yet, only the class 52 and West Somerset one. It's pretty poor you need to buy more DLC to be able to properly use a locomotive you've bought but will keep an eye out for the next sale.

Which route is that? If I choose the class 52 locomotive then the only timetables and scenarios it offers are on the West Somerset route so I think as you said I need the diesel legends DLC to use the 52 elsewhere or use the scenario planner.

Is this what you had in mind: https://www.traintrackr.co.uk

I checked the older Train Sim games and the 52 was missing for other routes there as well but then I remembered I was using a mod at one point. That's really annoying there's still no official timetables or scenarios for the 52 outwith the heritage line but I'll stuck that DLC on my wishlist...

I finally got around to trying TSW4 and was in a mood for the Western but it seems limited to the West Somerset Railway now whereas previously there was at least one railtour option to take it on a proper line or am I missing something? Seems fairly useless taking a powerful locomotive on a...

A few years back I did some writing for a games site when gaming was a hobby which went well initially with some articles that had a good response but I couldn't keep thinking of ideas for articles and wasn't spending enough time on it on top of my main job. More recently I trained as a cycle...

68022 came up to Scotland last December with the flasks so I assume DRS must be able to use at least some of them at the moment.

They've deployed an extensive change of 30mph down to 20mph limits here as a trial but I don't find it's any use because there's no enforcement (nor can there be until they fix the atrocious signage) so normal drivers who were never a problem have slowed down a bit but those who were flying...