Hi, I am James, I am 28 and from County Durham. I am a avid TS2018 and TSW player, with the PDE, North and South Wales Coastal routes and London to Brighton being my fav. routes!
Have you tried the Weardale and Teesdale Network in the '60s yet? It was the route that sucked me into TS and I may be slightly obsessed with it. It can be melancholic, when you drive lines that don't exist any more or pass acres of long gone railway and rail served industry, and vivid such as at Stanhope Station which looks pretty much as it does now after restoration by the Weardale Railway.