Train Sim World 3 Tsw Edinburgh Waverly To Glasgow Central Via Carstairs

Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Central via Carstairs​

Climb aboard two iconic trains on one of Scotland's Mainline Routes! Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Central via Carstairs! Choose between Commuter or High Speed on this Scenic route. Operated by ScotRail and LNER.

Rolling Stock:
•Class 380 Desiro
The Class 380 Desiro is an Iconic train throughout the UK. It's angled front is iconic and can be angled for coupling. Due to it being a Desiro unit, it also has an iconic whining noise when accelerating or decelerating. It only operates in Scotland and it only has been made in the Scotrail Saltire Livery.


•Class 800 AZUMA
The Class 800 is a much requested train for TSW and is an iconic high speed train throughout the UK. The Azuma operates on the ECML express between Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverly then down into England. It can run on AC and Desil power making it a Bi-Mode multiple unit. It runs in two liveries, them being GWR and LNER.

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Azumas are Diesel and Electric (AC) not AC and DC, just thought I'd point that out

 

Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Central via Carstairs​

Stations:
Edinburgh Waverly
Edinburgh Waverly is a main station serving many operates with trains going in and out every 5-20 minutes. You can travel to the The Far North to Inverness or to the far south in Penzance from Edinburgh. The station is also home to a whopping 20 Platforms! The most platforms in Scotland!

Haymarket
Haymarket Station has almost every train going to and from Edinburgh stop at it. It is very busy and has two tunnels ether side of the station.

Carstairs
Carstairs is where the trains for the ECML split of from the trains to Glasgow and the trains to Edinburgh.

Carluke
Carluke isn't far from Carstairs and marks the transition into the West country. (Sorry, that's it. Couldn't think of anything else to say about carluke)

Wishaw
Wishaw is a small station that serves trains between Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is also the closest stations to the WCML connection at Sheildmuir.

Motherwell
Motherwell is a terminal station for some ScotRail services. It also lies on the WCML with trains going through or stopping at it every 10 mins. It is used by many to get to the nearby Motherwell shopping centre.

Glasgow Central
In the centre of Scotlands largest city lies Glasgow Central Station. It is home to many trains leaving and arriving every 10 mins. It's host to trains going through the WCML and the ECML and is a terminal station for many.


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You really like using the word "iconic" in this.

 

Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Central via Carstairs​

To Summerise
I think this route would be a perfect fit for TSW. It would be great to see as this is one of the mainline routes in Scotland. It has good scenery, it's very fast and it's not too long a route.

Potential DLC:
Class 385

LNER Class 43 HST

Class 92 Caledonian Sleeper


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That's because it is iconic. There is lots of it about it that is iconic. I felt using it alot made the point of how good a route this would be

 

You're doing it again!

 

Brothers will be brothers huh? XD

 

That's 5 'iconics' I counted there TSW Nathan, I presume there was more as you edited the post, is iconic your favourite word by any chance XD

 

Great suggestion overall, I would love to see Edinburgh-Glasgow via Carstairs in TSW, many DLC opportunities (Sleeper...), well done

 

Lol, there is alot of merable thing about this route. It might be my new favourite word though XD

 

Thank you. I'll include the Caledonian Sleeper for the Potential DLC List

 

Fantastic, would love a 92 in TSW, a much needed loco which could layer as AI on SEHS Extended and replace the 66 for HS1 freight

 

Haha, yeah, like I said before it's underlooked as a way to link Scotland's two well known cities as people think Queen Street-Waverley and forget Central unless they have common sense and think either about this way or going via Shotts

 

Good suggestion, I would like to see the 80Xs in game as they are widespread across our mainline network and having spent much time around them in the past few years I have grown a strange fondness for them. Also just thought I should clear up for others that on this route the 80X would only wear the LNER Azuma livery not the GWR one.

 

Yup

 

The reason I chose this one is because I went on it irl

 

Oh nice, did you like it?

 

Yep, agreed, had my experiences on an 800 and they are good units to ride on, ride quality - good, journey undertook - short but I am all to familiar with that journey (Arbroath-Dundee or vice versa) , also you can include 800104 in the same way as 395012 and 395025 appear on SEHS

 

Yea, it was great. Good scenery and it was fast

 

This can merge with Cathcart Circle and owners of both routes get a 2019 timetable where Class 380 do stoppers with Class 314s Class 385 Rush hour only services

 

no the 801 are only electric 802 are electric and diesel and 800 are electric only or diesel and electric

 

Look at which AT300 train he is suggesting before giving me specifications

 

Glad you liked it

 

Yeah, I forgot about the possible merge with Cathcart, but people can argue all day about time periods so watch out

 

That's the idea!

 

Have added the Caledonian Sleeper to DLC list

 

Lovely, thanks for that, you can't do Edinburgh-Glasgow via Carstairs without the Sleeper, can you

 

Nope. I love the sleeper. Sucha great train. Saw it all the time on my holidays in Fort William. It went right past the garden of the place we stayed in. So great!

 

Amazing, the Mk5s are an upgrade to their predecessors, the Mk2s and Mk3s

 

How many of these actually run between Glasgow and Edinburgh though? Don't some of these only go south from Edinburgh? Seems like mostly the scotrail trains which will go along the route, the rest would be background/AI?

It says Glasgow is the end of the ECML, but I think Edinburgh is the end of that. WCML goes to both but not ECML.

 

I believe the Class 385's run a peak time service on the Carstairs Line. The Sleeper should run the whole way. And the HST is just a peak time 80x replacement

 

LNER run one train to London in the morning and a train comes from London which arrives in Glasgow at 9pm or so then stables at Polmadie Car M.D. for overnight servicing, hope this explains the choice of rolling stock used

 

Yes I occasionally get that one and I rather like the tartan on it.

LNER do run services from Kings Cross to Glasgow but as said above it is only the one a day however it does mean the 80X will be in game for any future modern mainline routes.

 

I saw the only one per day at Glasgow once! It was a rare site! It looked amazing up close irl

 

They do don't they

 

They are rather sleek and modern looking trains.
What I find funny is that you see an Azuma as rare but I have seen two whilst typing this and spend my whole day around them!

 

Agreed, Aberdeen get 4 southbound Azuma diagrams (3 to Kings X and 1 to Leeds) and 4 northbound diagrams (1 from Leeds and 3 from Kings X) a day, whereas Inverness on the other side of the Highlands get 1 southbound and 1 northbound a day, probably due to the single line sections on the Highland Mainline

 

Yes Aberdeen isn't too badly served considering it's location.

 

Yeah, Aberdeen is well served, even CrossCountry serve Aberdeen with services to the West Country (Plymouth/Penzance to be more concise)

 

Yes of course I had forgot about XC.

 

You also forgot the Caledonian Sleeper lol, that's all the TOC's other than ScotRail that serve Aberdeen

 

Mmm yes.

 

Yup. It's pretty well served considering how far north the line is. The West Highland Line only gets about for trains a day that are all ScotRail only

 

This route will have a modern timetable with 2 trains to Glasgow and 1 train to Edinburgh every two hours.

 

The timetable won't be enough if it was just the 380 services, you have 4 LNER services you can do, 15 Sleeper services if you include S'bound and N'bound Lowlanders, Carstairs shunting, light loco movements to/from Polmadie for Edinburgh or Glasgow and ECS moves to/from Polmadie.

To bolster the timetable, why not include Lanark services with 380s first, then the 385s will take care of those if they come as DLC, happy days

 

Is the timetable 2022 or backdated a few years, if backdated yes the HST would sub in for the Azuma , if the timetable is 2022, it would be Azuma-only sadly

 

Okay

 

The HST DLC would have an older timetable come with it

 

Just some helpful advice