Frankrikeshavn

Hello,

Due to lack of space for a tunnel portal on the Red Line, the plans are a little changed for the lines.

The Customs main building won't be build directly near the shore, but in front of a viaduct for the Blue Line and not behind it - the original plan was for the Blue Line to directly under a tunnel and the Customs building over it. The terminus will still approximately be at the same place, although it won't be an underground station as planned but and elevated stations with a little space for shops.

This also means the Red Line will not cross the sea by a tunnel, but by a viaduct.

Vi ses snart i Frankrikeshavn, Norks222.

So the Central Station of Frankrikeshavn opened. For anyone who has shopping chains through The Shire : there are shopping spaces in the station for you. Here's what the opened sections look like right now.

EDIT : Thanks a lot Andy ! He set up an STA ticket office and a Costa Copy. So no more shopping spaces available.

Vi ses snart i Frankrikeshavn, Norks222.

Hey,

First, Andy, it's going well ! If you're watching this on 19/09 I finished building the park, in honour of @nebbers who helped me a lot when I first joined the server and also after when I was unbanned.

Right now the Red Line has entirely opened, apart from a section, which I hesitate to build right now as there are more important things, that was meant to go on the "mainland" as there isn't space for a real STA station in Frankrikeshavn. It's going all the way from Strand to Nebbersparken, serving Norges Vei and Sentralstasjon.

The priority, after I finish Nyhavn Island, is on the Town Hall and Customs with the Blue Line to the Town Hall, then to the shopping zone and the Green Line to the west (not immediately Englands Island).

Almost finished the customs, and began the commercial zone. Although I do already have a WaitroseCopy, I think i'll need some other shops by then, when i'll have finished the zone.

So here I've developed plans for a highway from the existing one to Kibarra and for the Empire Line. I could build the infrastructure on 1st and 2nd pictures myself. Red lines represent a highway that should be created / enlargened, golden lines represent the Empire Line and cyan lines represent an eventual extension of the Skira Line from Reeder. Because of this eventual extension, I might have to rebuild the International Terminal, just in case. I might - and actually will - build a big city right next to the International Terminal, but it will be in a separate region. Because it will be very big, I think they would be demand for a Skira line extension to it.

Well, it could seem weird but I have plans for many projects - including one a few hundred blocks east of Floffwym. So I wanted to have served by the Thule line towards Saguaria, but I can't have it all - Frankrikeshavn and that project.

Although we could find common ground, I wanted for the Empire Line to serve Frankrikeshavn, and not the Thule, for a simple reason. The Thule would've lost the stop at Saguaria. You're gonna tell me - why is it important ? Who cares ? Well, a stop at Saguaria would've allowed a quicker way to go from Mainland, and actually most important places on the Shire, to all projects between Saguaria and Emerald City. The Thule Line not stopping at a few places makes it far quicker than the Quintus. It would also be at the advantage of Palustris and Velaiyre - otherwise, they are really isolated.

Also - my first plan for a station at Frankrikeshavn was for a Skira Line extension. I've given up that plan since long ago. But yet I'm building a station in Frankrikeshavn for 2 lines solely in prevision of it. But I'll be clear, the Skira Line wouldn't - and even shouldn't be extended past Reeder until 3 things :

• the project I've talked about becomes consequent in size ;
• the Empire Line is open from Sunspear to Emerald City ;
• the branch to Elathuria Island isn't built.

Shortly, it'll take a long time before it'll have to be extended.

Thanks to @Smoot for the inspiration and to @CoffeeAndChill for some help later on about it, I finished building Normandies Viadukt, named in honour of Normandy, a region in France that was once colonized by the Vikings.

It's one step further in the connection between Frankrikeshavn and the southeastern Shire - Kibarra, Naoki, etc.

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I don't know how the posters of news channels, cities, etc are done, but if it's done by a picture, then here I go. The picture may not be of optimal quality but it was just as a demonstration of what it could look like IMO.

All buildings, be it houses or not, in the entirety of Frankrikeshavn have their structure finished by now. The project is not far from being finish, it is guaranteed to be finished by the end of February. Maybe a few days before, maybe a few days after, who knows ?

So, although it's done since some 2 or 3 days, I consider all of Frankrikeshavn is finished - for now ! Although I don't feel like it, I could totally make an extension of it.

So, to sum up everything : Frankrikeshavn has two markets (one south of town and another in Nyhavn), three harbours, a church, a synagogue, a cemetery, a commercial zone, a customs building, three light rail lines with their twelve stations, a hotel, a beach resort, and two watching towers, one of them even reaching Y 106 !

I want to thank everyone who contributed even a very little to this project :

@CoffeeAndChill for the railways' buttons, station IDs, etc

@nebbers for having regioned it and set a warp

Robert09wils for the Customs building's clock

@Zhenya for the Green Line's underground station at Sentralstasjon the pedestrian bridge to Nebbersparken and the garden next to it

Master_Chief for having changed the biome's grass colour (grass was really ugly)