Route Name: Metropolitan Line: Aldgate – Amersham, Chesham, Uxbridge & Watford with Chiltern Main Line to London Marylebone Length: ~41 miles (66 km) | Stations: 34+ | Era: Present Day Rolling Stock * London Underground A60/A62 stock 4-car and 8-car train * London Underground 1972 stock or 1938 stock ? * AI jubilee and Piccadilly line services Gameplay The Metropolitan Line offers one of the most varied driving experiences in Train Sim World, combining busy Underground operations with high-speed surface running and multiple branches. Features: * Full Metropolitan network (Amersham, Chesham, Uxbridge & Watford). * All-stop, semi-fast and fast (top speed record 70-75 mph A-stock in 1980s - 1990s) Metropolitan services. * Peak-hour timetables with realistic signalling. * AI Underground traffic around Baker Street. * Shunting, stock transfers and stabling at Neasden Depot. * Additional shunting at Uxbridge Sidings. * AI Jubilee Line services. * Piccadilly Line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. Scenery * Baker Street and its historic platforms. * Regent’s Park. * Wembley Park and Wembley Stadium. * Underground tunnels, cuttings, embankments and open countryside. * Modern station announcements and detailed platforms. Why this route? The Metropolitan Line is unlike any other Underground route, offering a mix of metro and mainline-style operations with multiple branches, express services and depot work, giving it excellent replay value. It would also bring London Underground back to Train Sim World for the first time since TSW2. Considering the Underground is one of the world’s most iconic rail networks and rarely appears in modern train simulators, this route would feel fresh, unique and highly requested by the community.
Would be an excellent route for TSW. I think from a game play point of view, I'd prefer it set either at the start or end of the A stock units' life. For example. 1961: With the electricity flowing to Amersham but with the A-stock still being introduced we have a wonderful mixture of wood-panelled T & brand new A stock intermingling on the Watford and Amersham services and the art-deco, red flare-sided CO/CP units and A stock on the Uxbridge services. Jubilee Line services are in the hands of TS38 tube stock. 2011: Around half of the Metropolitan services are new in the hands of S08 stock as the A-stock life draws to a close. Meanwhile on the Aldgate - Baker Street (with occasional trips to Neasden Depot) are the C69/77. Whether it would be worth adding a TS96 for a few stops on the Jubilee is up for debate. I always aim for a maximum of two new types of train with an additional piece of rolling stock added later. I'd suggest the T-stock maybe with those lovely electric locos would be the additional DLC for 1961. Meanwhile C stock could be the additional DLC for 2011 T Stock. CO/CP with only the front driving motor car still in the older livery with darker red paint and gold lettering. C77's before repainting into LU livery. I know it's not relevant to either era I suggested, I just miss their presence on the LU network.
This refers to the D78, C77 and A60 trains from the late 1960s through the 1990s—specifically the older A-Stock trains, which had a top speed of 70–75 mph and operated the "fast" (not semi-fast) service from Baker Street to Amersham they featured a bouncing ride, silver A60/A62 rolling stock, and original, unrefurbished interiors that remained unchanged from the 1990s into the 2000s.
The "F stock" was ex-District steel-bodied stock that was displaced by R-stock and transferred over to the growing electric Metropolitan network as a temporary measure in the early 50s. Despite this and their terrible corrosion problem they were in fact the last "legacy" rolling stock on the Metropolitan main lines when they bowed out in 1963.
I know, but I was just musing about whether a period when 2 (or more) different types of trains were operating the Met. I've always preferred DLC that gives you more than one type of train to drive on the main route.
A typically British interior, with its dividing panels ! You find that in many other types of rolling stock, the Class 313 for example, and even up to the Mk3 coaches !
Those original A stock seats were a strange combination of tough and bouncy. I loved the maroon saloon ends but otherwise it followed the late 1960s and early 70s LT design concept of cold-looking bus and train interiors. The greens/maroons/cream interiors of the 1930s era stock were far more inviting and cosy. The later orange/yellow/black/olive schemes were also an improvement and seat cover design still looks modern. Anyway I digress, again.
