Hi All, Sometimes it's great to have a quick blast without those empty platforms and sidings. I thought I'd create a list of routes (both freeware and payware) that we can expand over time. Please feel free to add more routes in the comment section below! Freeware (with payware requirements): Great Central Railway Download from Steam Sounds Supreme: https://www.steamsoundssupreme.com/freeware-routes.html Riviera Lines - GWR Era Download from Steam Sounds Supreme: https://www.steamsoundssupreme.com/freeware-routes.html Whitby & Pickering Heritage Railway Download from Steam Sounds Supreme: https://www.steamsoundssupreme.com/freeware-routes.html Mid-Hants Railway Over the Alps Download from Steam Sounds Supreme: https://www.steamsoundssupreme.com/routes-super-detail-range.html The Wycombe Railway and Joint Line Plus 5.1 Download from Virtual Risboro's Station: http://www.pgdl.co.uk/p2/vpris//plus5/sendowl.htm The Fen Line (Phase One) Download from 4 Aspect Simulations: https://www.4aspectsimulations.com/routes The Harrogate Loop V2 Download from On Track Simulation: https://www.ontracksimulation.com/harrogateloop.html More to come later...
Payware: WCML over Shap Liverpool - Manchester Sherman Hill Munich - Augsburg Marias Pass Birmingham Cross City Those are the ones I can come up with here and now
Here is my list: QUICK DRIVE ROUTE AI ECML Pboro – York (Modern) YES (1990s) ECML ATS Leeds Loop YES Chatham Main Line YES ECML London – Peterborough YES MML Just Trains Midland Mainline (Leic-Sheff) YES Liverpool – Manchester (1980s) YES South Western ML (Soton-Bournemouth) YES WCML South (Eus – Birm) YES (2020) WCML Trent Valley (Rugby – Stafford) YES (2020) WCML Over Shap – (Preston – Carlisle) YES (1980s) WCML North Wales Coastal (Crewe – Llandudno) YES Huddersfield Line (Manc-Leeds) 1990 YES GEML Liverpool Street - Ipswich LIMITED GWR Bristol Exeter NO GWR Riviera Line (Exeter – Torquay) NO GWR Great Western Mainline (Padd-Oxford) NO Fife Circle Line NO London Victoria – Brighton NO MML Midland Mainline (St Pancras-Bed) NO Settle – Carlisle NO GWR South Wales Line (Bristol – Swansea) NO ATS ECML East Coast Mainline – Merge (KX – Edin) NO ECML Just Trains Edin – Newcastle NO ECML East Coast Mainline Newcastle – York NO ATS WCML Merge (Preston-Birm-Euston) NO WCML North (Carlisle – Glasgow) NO GWR Western Mainlines (Penz – Pad) NO ECML York – Sunderland NO ATS Chat Moss NO ATS Kings Cross – Kings Lynn NO ATS Pboro-Cambridge NO
Just did a quick run to refresh myself from Ipswich to Chelmsford. 30 miles - saw 5 services coming the other way - so was not as bad as I first remembered. No freight at all, which was surprising as its the main rail gateway to a big UK container port. Limited is more a note to remind me that if I ever wanted to set up the Quickdrive with more traffic on this route, then there is some AI there already ... but for me, could so with adding a sprinkling of more AI.
If anyone uses Steam Workshop I have loaded a couple of old QD scenarios for the Riviera line using mainly default AI and with the possibility of running at caution. Not sure what AI will show up for other users. The scenarios are Riviera QD local up and Riviera down quick drive. The new paths should appear in the Riviera quick drive menu. GEML has a large number of AI spawn points but set to low probability 20-30% of showing up. These can be edited to a higher percentage in the build menu but I guess that negates the purpose of quick drive for most people. It does have loaded container trains which seem to show up mainly on the Ipswich Felixstowe section. AP 321 sets also have a preload set up for commuter designation but they appear in various random liveries. Other routes with AI Exeter Barnstaple Stainmore but too rich for my low spec laptop Leipzig Dresden
