The Friargate Line

[Rockdoc2174]

We know someone, a little older than Brian and I, who grew up in Awsworth and used the station as a boy. He reckons the urinal was as fragrant as you'd expect it to be!

Keith

[AndiS]

I also thought about that in the way: On younger photos, we only see the rusting urinals but not the flower beds any more. So we get a biases impression.
But then again, urinals develop their smell quite soon after 'opening' so it will have been a tough competition between the flowers and the urinal. You could even pencil a curve of smell intensity with the urinal peaking in summer but the flowers peaking in spring.

[VictoryWorks]

Scripted urinals! We are through the looking glass, people!
Nevertheless, brilliant detail as always. Well done.

[AndiS]

Anyone remember those Phillips gadgets that Kuju hailed at some point? Where the light goes out in your room when you go through a tunnel.

I remember demanding a dirt spray besides the monitor to give you some authentic face colour. Smell was talked about, too, for sure. And rumbling mats and their potential usage.

Too bad we never heard of this afterwards. So no chance for realistic urinals, I guess. Maybe suggest it as a must-have feature for TSW on their Facebook page, in case you are "on it".

[Rockdoc2174]

I remember demanding a dirt spray besides the monitor to give you some authentic face colour. Smell was talked about, too, for sure.

When I was sixteen. in 1968 just before the end of steam, I went on a trip behind 70013 Oliver Cromwell from Derby to Manchester and back. I'd travelled from home to Derby on my NSU Quickly moped so I had my helmet and gloves with me, along with a cassette tape recorder. I had my head out of the window and, inevitably, was being bothered by hot smuts hitting my face and eyes so I put on my helmet and goggles to make life easier. By the time I got home I looked like a reversed panda! My face was as black as coal, except for two, large, white areas around my eyes......

Keith

[briyeo]

Pete found a coal and steam fragrance block of some sort didn't he, I think that would work, maybe an aerosol spray, maybe we could get Glade interested

[VictoryWorks]

http://www.daleair.com/aromas/industrial-and-mechanical

I did message them on Twitter last July to ask about their samples but they have never replied so I didn't end up buying anything from them.

[briyeo]

This product although also for use in model smoke generators is also recommended for placing on an absorbent material to give a steam loco scent to your room. maybe it's possible to make a USB powered smoke generator.
£14.25 plus postage

https://www.deluxematerials.co.uk/en/ra ... 01392.html

The Daleair product is £14.75 plus postage for a 400ml Hand held Aerosol but you can order a sample for £2.26 plus postage

USB fragrance oil burners already exist

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oil-Burner-wi ... tg4dN40ySQ

[hertsbob]

Anyone remember those Phillips gadgets that Kuju hailed at some point? Where the light goes out in your room when you go through a tunnel?

Matt P does this via some kind of home-brew interface, and it works and it makes him very happy. It's driven from the Tunnel Track property, I gather, but since the advent of occlusion boxes the use of Tunnel Track has become less and less prevalent. Believe it or not, any DTG route that has a tunnel will have Tunnel Track purely for this reason...

But back on topic. The amount of research effort, attention to detail and quality of assets still continues to defy belief!

[Rockdoc2174]

The amount of research effort, attention to detail and quality of assets still continues to defy belief!

Hmmm... Well.... Sometimes the effort goes to waste! In the fifties there was a disused clay pit near Cossall between Newton's Lane and Corporation Road, not far from the Nottingham Canal. I was relaying hedges and the like in that area so I lowered the ground, painted it mud colour and put a pond in the bottom, as shown on the OS map. I was pleased with the result, went back to the line at Awsworth and looked how it appeared in the game.

It is on the far side of a hill! Not only that, the slope is such that it doesn't show anywhere from the line......

Keith