Tiverton & Crewe Railroad

[uzurpator]

Tiverton and Crewe Railway ( TCR for short ) is a new company, started in 1850, servicing, you guessed it, Tiverton and Crewe. Its main source of income is passanger and wood traffic.

In the year 1856 its system comprised:

The crux of engineering is the Tiverton Spiral Tunnel

The year 1858 marks the start of the Grand Wood Line, to keep the Tiverton Forest happy. Three locomotives push a train through the torturous Tiverton Spiral Tunnel:

And even then, the 15 car train barely reaches 20km/h at the summit.

TBC

• This topic was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by uzurpator.
• This topic was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by uzurpator.

[SkyRat]

Cool set-up!

 

[vinkandoi]

How profitable is this setup.

By the look of it, is must have incurred a huge running expenses

[uzurpator]

vinkandoi: I am playing with an early version of my Rasonable Balance Mod. The train on the screen costs about $220k per year. THe whole wood service yields aboyt 1.2M per year in income and about 500k in expenses.

Anyhow:

Year 1859 marks the completion of Battle Extension of the system:

The next logical step is to extend the system to Newbury, but that will require a costly demolishion at Tiverton.

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