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As you might guess from my profile picture, my favourite locomotive is the Class 87 - a legacy of living near Carlisle and Liverpool at different...

This page of the RailUK forum contains a discussion on it. The fullest description appears to be this from 'SansHache': The introduction of...

London Euston - Milton Keynes (Loughton Sidings) - First Attempt For this run I had 45614 'Kenya' with 8 fully loaded mk1s. My timings are on the...

London Euston - Milton Keynes (Loughton Sidings) - Jubilee + 8 mk1s The WCMLS route always felt like a tricky one on which to do a steam run,...

That sounds good. The shipping costs do sound high though. For those of us without a 3D printer handy, would the shipping costs be lower if we...

I like the long handles. It allows you to get your whole hand on the lever - as you would in real life - rather than having to move it with the...

With ‘Off the Rails’ and Free Roam you can drive a train within the timetable, but you can’t run it on one of the schedules. You have no times to...

Matt has previously acknowledged the many requests to be able to substitute the train you drive in timetable mode with another, and has said the...

Which is the classic conspiracy-theorist tactic. Put out a wild conspiracy theory and say “I’m not saying it’s true, I’m just speculating.” When...

For me, Carlisle - Glasgow is like Preston - Carlisle but a bit less interesting. The Carstairs - Glasgow section contains some interest, but...

Although admittedly a few mark 1s swinging around on the back of a Voyager would look a bit odd ;) Fixed formations are the name of the game...

Interesting. You may have a claim to have travelled on the last ever relief service in the UK…

Thank you for the review, it was very useful. I’m on the fence - it sounds better than the RailDriver (which I have had for years) - but it’s...

It looks to me as if they’re hourly now. There are some additional slow Glasgow services via Birmingham, but they get overtaken so don’t really...

You want a Class 91, but you’re not interested in the ECML? As requirements go, that’s certainly quite niche.

I’d love to think that’s the dilemma, and that serious thought is being given to cunning transition-era timing which enables maximum use of as...

You’re right of course, and I must admit I can’t remember what all the letters in LAMPOIL stand for, but on my rough understanding of the factors...

I think it’s a route which would really benefit from having some stock for which the South Devon banks would be a bit of a challenge. I suspect...

The key thing which needs fixing with the 40 is the physics. It’s very over-powered at the upper end of the speed range.

The offers at the moment seem to be focused on the historical peculiarity which was the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway through East...

Fantastic run, Lamplight. I was in the middle of a suitably loud and chaotic family Christmas when I read it so didn’t have time to comment....

I agree the route has a lot of scope for more to be made of it, with some timetable improvements. Lamplight and I had some fun re-creating Class...

This comes down to the individual operator’s instructions. Where I’ve worked the instruction is that you should put the reverser into neutral at...

Please don’t feel you have to apologise for buying TSW routes. If nobody buys them they’ll stop making them!

I think it’s a poll which might benefit from people being able to choose multiple options, in order to identify the common ground between people....

Driving 1M52 Glasgow C - London E (18:35 from Carlisle) I got brought down to a red 2 signals outside Lancaster (I'd been running on time). After...

Me too - it's an excellent mod. I must admit I forgot I started this thread, otherwise I'd have gone back and updated it! Thanks for the response.

I’d prefer that there were a number of parties making BR era stock. I accept that would mean a degree of variation in quality, but the problem...

There appear to be two such services close behind each other. The one you mentioned is, I think, the Euston-Edinburgh additional, and just behind...

Using the below mod, the 87 now works really well with RailDriver, including Run Up (which is the element which doesn't work properly without the...

Just in case anyone hasn't stumbled upon it yet (it's mentioned on another thread, but it took me a while to come across it) this mod solves the...

No, management encourage Drivers to say if they are not feeling fit to drive a train. It’s better to cancel a train than have an accident....

Not necessarily. Psychometric tests aren't really about reaction times. You can try examples of some of the types of test used, though. There are...

In fact, the reverse is true. Driven in the right way the Jubilee has the capability to build and maintain boiler pressure which is far in excess...

In the UK the aptitude assessments which form part of the selection process to become a train driver can only be successfully completed by people...

I don't drive a lot of freight, but 4M51 Carlisle - Preston is an interesting overnight run, with a single 87, a heavy freightliner train, and...

Interesting - thank you for the additional research. Yes, I do agree with you on both counts. The rheostatic brake in the Penrith-Oxenholme video...

With ECS you’d need to use the train brake. Potentially with a light loco you might use the loco brake, although the train brake will still work...

The tap changer should run down as the train comes to a stand. A rheostatic brake is not functional when the train is stationary. The correct...

Maintain line speed (90mph) until you reach the point where there are 3 bridges over the railway in quick succession (they’re all within about 100...

I tried 1P06 as a stand-alone by selecting it from the timetable menu. Enjoyable though it was (an 87 with just 5 coaches is pretty lively) I...

For anyone interested, it’s worth reading up on the Abermule collision in 1921. There’s more than one book about it, but the Wikipedia article...

I've now also completed my notes for the Down direction: Preston - 25, then 110. - At the end of Oubeck Up & Dn loops, shut off and brake for 75....

Well, it depends in what they were improved. If it was a case of all of the controls remaining the same, but boiler pressure responding more...

Preston - Carlisle - 1st Attempt I set up my first attempt at this run to be in summer, as I reckoned identifying the passing points was going to...

Carlisle-Preston - Jubilee + 10 mk1s This challenge is based on the schedule and log mentioned by tomtrainboi#1289 above, taken from Brian...

To be honest the existing TSW steam locos aren’t difficult to drive. They just perform unrealistically. Making them perform realistically wouldn’t...

Don’t forget that for the whole of railway history up until that time, it was normal practice that anyone could open a door anywhere - whether you...

Yes, the MML one is confusing because of the labelling. One of those (I think it’s the one marked ‘vigilance isolation’) is actually the AWS...