Deep Pit Circle DRIVE (FULL route)

Deep Pit Circle DRIVE (FULL route)

The two collieries on the Loop Line south of Tunstall were serviced several times a day by a circular trip that started and finished at Longport. It includied reversals of direction at Tunstall and Etruria to complete the circuit. This trip with an LMS Fowler 4F 0-6-0 visits the exchange sidings of the Hanley Deep Pit and the working is complicated because the link line from the sidings is on the up side of the line but it only directly connects to the down line. Moreover the sidings themselves are short, so the incoming train of empties has to be split at Cobridge and worked on to the colliery in two separate sections. Fitting this service in without disrupting the frequent passenger trains is difficult, especially as this particular service is working at the commencement of the evening peak period.

The train of full coal wagons is taken up the Loop Line and then reverses into Etruria Up Yard. The 4F then takes two guards' vans from Etruria Down Yard to Longport Junction.

The player driver will experience new tools developed by Trevor Laughton (trev999) that relieve him from the burden of path setting. In moving between shunt locations, Route Selector track marks will guide the player's train and warn him if the path ahead is temporarily unavailable. At each shunt location the Shunt Sequencer rule allows the player to quickly establish the path required for each shunt movement by clicking on a control in a custom HUD.

Author: session created and tested by Leigh Stokes(ElStoko) and Trevor Laughton(trev999) using a plot created by Andrew Howard(andrewh)

Deep Pit Circle DRIVE (FULL route)
• config.txt 214.76KB
• deep_pit_circle.jpg 188.98KB
• licence.txt 1.47KB
• profile.dat 1.42MB
• profile.lyr 89 bytes
• profile.obs 9.73KB
• profile.rlr 36 bytes
• profile.trk 68 bytes