Unfortunately I doubt it. If we regard the history of mainstream train simming as starting with MSTS 25 years ago, there has only been one commercial payware Irish route for any of the games - and that was the Belfast to Dublin Enterprise for MSTS. I would love to see an Irish (North or South) route, any era (though classic CIE/NIR preferred) in TSW but accept it will probably never happen.
All one track routes in the middle of nowhere with boring timetables and no replay value. It´s like three Tadami lines in other countries.
The main problem with the OG MSTS routes was that the Kuju route builders didn’t quite grasp how the prototype works. So we had some ridiculous gradients on Marias and of course the infamous Cutbank syndrome when physics forces built up in the train and derailed if you had more than about six miles between point or crossing nodes. Then Settle & Carlisle had less than suitable rolling stock as Flying Scotsman was hardly typical of the line. Even the later added Class 50 wasn’t quite appropriate. On the NEC, trains had a tendency to derail on curves even if below the speed limit. I do think a modernish Arlberg could be quite nice and would be a good stamping ground for the several OBB items we already have in game, plus something new.
But, I must admit, 25 years of MSTS would be a nice reason to bring the OG routes to TSW - man thinking about it I still can feel the infinite excitement from the store to the installation on the family PC I had, when I bought the game and finally been able to drive a train.
Speaking for myself I want a UK route that comes stacked with full driving turns, a selection of different types of service from freight, to express and semi-fast to inner-city stoppers. Electric, based anytime since the 80s, not in the NW or a section of the WCML. So that leaves plenty of options around the UK, but mostly on mainlines into the Capital.
