Haarlem-Maastricht (800 IC) Maastricht.rw
This is in effect an update of my recent Rheingold route. This year (2007) Netherlands Railways (NS) completed the doubling of the trackage from A'dam Bijlmer to Utrecht.
(After talking about it for 13 years!) There are now 4 tracks. I have also added the junction of the Metro lines between Amstel and Duivendrecht; this is an overhead crossing of two separate tracks over the main line. The mainline at Bijlmer is joined by the so-called 'Utrecht Curve', connecting A'dam Zuid and Schiphol with Utrecht. Thus far, I have made only one of the main lines, the one going West to A'dam Zuid and Schiphol, cross the mainline overhead, the other one, going East, as yet, joins the main line at level (no overhead crossing), just before the junction from Diemen and A'dam Centraal. (The present Maastricht route runs for only 70 km.)
Some other corrections have also been made, as they will continue to be made. I shall continue this route as the' maastr.rw' for now until I change my mind. There is lots to do untill I shall have passed Utrecht station. When updates are posted, they will have a new version number. The next one, including Breukelen and Maarssen, will be 'Maastricht-v1.rw, etc. The object file will remain the same.
Because the 800 IC starts at Haarlem, the km numbering starts there.
The below URL links to a ' free' addition to MSTS, called the EC or European Corridor. It is in Dutch and seemingly not completed, because no mention is made as to where it can be downloaded. It will run from A'dam Centraal to Maastricht.
The next site contains lots of info related to the NS as it is today:
This is about the new Bijlmer ArenA Station:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterd...ailway_station (the 'Arena' is the soccer stadium)
Martin fb214@ncf.ca http://web.ncf.ca/fb214/
This is in effect an update of my recent Rheingold route. This year (2007) Netherlands Railways (NS) completed the doubling of the trackage from A'dam Bijlmer to Utrecht.
(After talking about it for 13 years!) There are now 4 tracks. I have also added the junction of the Metro lines between Amstel and Duivendrecht; this is an overhead crossing of two separate tracks over the main line. The mainline at Bijlmer is joined by the so-called 'Utrecht Curve', connecting A'dam Zuid and Schiphol with Utrecht. Thus far, I have made only one of the main lines, the one going West to A'dam Zuid and Schiphol, cross the mainline overhead, the other one, going East, as yet, joins the main line at level (no overhead crossing), just before the junction from Diemen and A'dam Centraal. (The present Maastricht route runs for only 70 km.)
Some other corrections have also been made, as they will continue to be made. I shall continue this route as the' maastr.rw' for now until I change my mind. There is lots to do untill I shall have passed Utrecht station. When updates are posted, they will have a new version number. The next one, including Breukelen and Maarssen, will be 'Maastricht-v1.rw, etc. The object file will remain the same.
Because the 800 IC starts at Haarlem, the km numbering starts there.
The below URL links to a ' free' addition to MSTS, called the EC or European Corridor. It is in Dutch and seemingly not completed, because no mention is made as to where it can be downloaded. It will run from A'dam Centraal to Maastricht.
The next site contains lots of info related to the NS as it is today:
This is about the new Bijlmer ArenA Station:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterd...ailway_station (the 'Arena' is the soccer stadium)
Martin fb214@ncf.ca http://web.ncf.ca/fb214/