1. The scale that has been necessary to correctly reproduce trams
reversing in the the city block means that the whole model, for
trams at least, can't be more than 40 km across. This will be
enough to reproduce the entire tram network, but heavy rail will
be truncated at Ringwood and Dandenong in the east and Laverton in the
West. The heavy rail service may well have to be a mock up anyway, as
the number of routes and vehicles required will overload the software.
I have not ruled out a second model focusing on heavy rail only
but see point 2.
2. Trams are easier than trains ! I have since obtained a copy of
the Met working timetable, a document that reveals the fiendish
complexity of the metropolitan train network. Trains simply cannot be
allocated to routes the way trams can. A service from the Ringwood
group could end up anyware from Heidelberg to Alamein by the time it
gets out of the loop. Short of allocating every train its own route,
which would very likely overtax the software, accurate reproduction
may prove to be beyond Bahn. A representative service would be fairly
easy, but a cop out.
If anyone else has any useful comment or wants to see the file so far,
drop me a line. I can email you the network file, but you'll have to
download Bahn for yourself. I've done central Melbourne and working
outwards from there. It's a slow process, being a spare time activity.
David A.
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David_Arblaster@nospam.dse.vic.gov.au
mercury@nospam.netspace.au
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