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Old 09-03-2010, 09:44 PM
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The pictures do look good, the planes to my not particularly knowledgeable eyes look good, but the lack of proper railways is terrible.

If we'd seen railways sooner, it could have been said sooner.

This is not in my view fixable before release, unless release is already set to be in the third quarter of 2011, and there is already someone working full time on nothing but railways.

Most places where rails crossed roads, there were bridges. Often railways were raised above the level of the land (called embankments), often railways were below the level of the land (called cuttings), sometimes if there was a long hill in the way there was a tunnel cut through the hill. This made it possible to keep the levels of the railways fairly flat, which in a hilly country, which Britain is, meant that the trains could travel faster and more efficiently. Railways were not new in Britain in 1940, the locomotives and rolling stock were fairly modern, but the railways were mostly laid out before 1900.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._Great_Britain

It was a lot of work, but workers were cheap in those days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy

I used to think Tree was a pessimist, but if this is going to be fixed before release he's now looking very optimistic indeed.
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