History of the route: The Crewe to Manchester railway line was built in 1841 and was electrified in 1959. The Styal line was built in 1909 and was also electrified in 1959. Locomotives and rolling stock: AL1 (Class 81) (Electric Blue), AL2 (Class 82) (Electric Blue), AL3 (Class 83) (Electric Blue), AL4 (Class 84) (Electric Blue), AL5 (Class 85) (Electric Blue), AM4 (Class 304) (British Railways Green), British Railway MK1 (Maroon or Blood and Custard), Car Wagon, Container Wagons, Route Map: Scenarios: Car Calamity: (Difficulty level 3) Drive this class 84 on a heavily delayed car train from Crewe to Lonsight T.M.D. The heavy rain does not help with your chances of gaining time back. Perfect Passenger: (Difficulty level 2) Drve this class 83 on an semi-fast express service to Euston (as far as Crewe where a jubilee class steam locomotive will take over) from Manchester Piccadilly. This train will call at: Stockport, Cheadle Humle, Sanbach and Crewe. Disbury Diversions: (Difficulty level 3) With the Styal line closed south of east Disbury, all styal line services have now been diverted via the Crewe to Manchester line. Drive this Class 304 from Crewe to Manchester calling at: Crewe, Sandbach, Holmes Chapel, Goostry, Chelford, Alderley edge, Wilmsow, Handforth, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel, Levenshulme and Manchester Piccadilly. Styal Stopper: (Difficulty level 2) Drive this slow service on the styal hauled by a class 81. This is due to there being a failure with some of the class 304 units. Controlled Containers: (Difficulty level 4) Drive Two class 85's on a southbound container train from Longsight to Crewe in extremeley snowy conitions. The heavy snow has caused majr delays with some trains being over 90 mins late! This means that you will have the least priority out of all of the trains. Speedy Recovory: (Difficulty level 1) Drive a light class 82 loco from longsight T.M.D (after repairs and overhaul) to Manchester, Couple up and then drive non- stop to crewe, run round and then drive non-stop to Longsight. Layers: What locos will layer on: LMS jubilee, LMS 8F, WSR class 09, WSR class 47, WSR class 33, LMS 4F What Wagons will layer? ICI wagons from Peak Forest, All wagons from Spirit of Steam.
