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Is that Train Simulator (the original Microsoft one from 2002 or thereabouts)? Almost looked like the Acela Express from there

Shouldn't the 91 be Apple Green and the carriages coloured Teak? :P

What is the current formation of this train (I know it is all Mk3s now)? And what will the formation be when all the upgraded coaches are in service?

In Norway at least, we got the bigger gauge already in the late 19th century... In fact our CAP gauge (1067mm) lines used the same loading gauge as British standard gauge... Hence why British Mk2s could be exported to NZ and only needed a change of bogies...

I would think Virgin themselves own the rights to the design? I'd say it'll be more likely for the IETs to appear in LNER design (or whatever the New franchise will be called)

Wasn't there actual plans to use them in open-access services on the WCML? I think it still says so on the IC225 page on Wikipedia...

Wouldn't Freightliner want them, Class 86s don't live forever... Or is it all diesel now?

That is actually a damn fine design for those trains

What haulage? DRS 68s I presume? Or (ex-)DBC 67s?

Greetings. As some of you may know, I am in the habit of creating scenaros for the Train Simulator 2018 (formerly known as Railworks) game 2-3 times a decade. I am currently working on the final version of a scenario featuring the "Sussex Scot" cross-country train from Glasgow Central in late...

Is it really THAT hot in the UK in late March? :P

Weren't there plans for Class 60 variants for coal and liner duties? Class 62 and 65 I think?

Do the ex-Virgin "Thunderbird" 57s still exist? Didn't they have Dellners? How much easier it'd have been to just stick with Buckeyes...

Aren't the BFOs of the Mk3 'b' standard? Didn't they have APT seats, not IC70?

Since high speed trains weren't put into service until around 1980 (TGV PSE) it's a bit difficult to speak of a "norm". For conventional stock - anything from 30 to 60 years, it seems. I guess a rough "norm" might be: About 30-35 years for diesel locos and DMUs, 40-50 years for passenger cars...

I know, but considering that the fleet was apparently only supposed to last for 20-25 years it's still far longer than was envisioned originally.

When these trainsets were built, they were expected to last 15-25 years. The ICE-1s are now approaching 30 with the TGV PSE fast approaching 40 Didn't BR expect the HSTs to be in service for around 25 years originally? I guess many of them will reach 45, some perhaps even 50?

There are no longer drophead Buckeyes on British passenger locos?

Isn't it still screw couplings between loco and coaches tho? I thought most locos nowadays had both Buckeye and screw but that might not be the case?

And with Buckeyes you could have had the possibility to, in a changeover period, run mixed formations of old and new stock.