The trent valley line is a 49 mile route on the wcml that runs from rugby, warwickshire all the way into stafford, staffordshire avoiding birmingham and wolverhampton. The route continues onto crewe where trains continue on to destinations in the north (manchester, holyhead, shrewsbury, liverpool and glasgow). Crewe is an important railway town in england. With a total distance of 75 and a half miles and a run time of about an hour and a half to over two hours, this would make the route a good length for train sim world. Route should be set in 2023(Today) and should include the following: Class 390 Pendolino The British Rail Class 390 Pendolino is a type of electric high-speed passenger train operated by Avanti West Coast in the United Kingdom Class 350 Desiro The British Rail Class 350 is a class of electric multiple-unit built by Siemens Transportation Systems to its Desiro design between 2004 and 2014 Class 221 Voyager The British Rail Class 221 Super Voyager is a class of tilting diesel-electric multiple unit express passenger trains built in Bruges, Belgium, by Bombardier Transportation in 2001/02 Class 66 RHTT. Stations Rugby: Rugby railway station serves the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, England. The current station dates from 1885; two previous stations dating from 1838 and 1840 respectively, existed at locations to the west of the current one. Nuneaton: Nuneaton railway station serves the large town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England. The station is managed by West Midland Trains. It is served by three railway lines: the Trent Valley-section of the WCML, The cross country Birmingham- Leicester - Peterborough line and the nuneaton to coventry branch line (1)
Nuneaton Station (contd) Atherstone: Atherstone is a rail station serving the town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, England. It is on the Trent Valley section of the WCML, exactly 102 miles (164 km) from Euston station. Polesworth Polesworth railway station serves the village of Polesworth in Warwickshire, England. It is situated on the Trent Valley section of the WCML. Tamworth: Tamworth is a split-level railway station which serves the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. It is an interchange between two main lines; the Cross Country Route and the Trent Valley section of the WCML. It has four platforms: Two low-level platforms (1 and 2) on the WCML, and, at a right-angle to, and passing over these, are two high-level platforms (3 and 4) served by the Cross Country Route. Litchfield Trent Valley Lichfield Trent Valley is a railway station on the outskirts of the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations in Lichfield, the other being Lichfield City in the city-centre. It is a split-level station, with low level platforms served by the Trent Valley Line section of the WCML, and a single high level platform, which is the northern terminus of the Cross City Lines.
Rugeley Trent Valley Rugeley Trent Valley is a station located on the outskirts of Rugeley in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations serving Rugeley, the other being Rugeley Town. It is on the eastern side of the town close to the Rugeley Trent Valley Trading Estate and located close to the River Trent. West Midlands Trains operate the station, and all trains serving it. Stafford Stafford railway station is a major interchange railway station in Stafford, Staffordshire, England, and is the second busiest railway station in Staffordshire, after Stoke-On-Trent. The station serves the county town, as well as surrounding villages. The station lies on the junction of the Trent Valley Line, the Birmingham Loop, and the WCML. Crewe: Crewe railway station is a railway station in Crewe, Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world. It is a very big rail hub with north south links, wales links and east west links. Crewe serves major links to the north wales lines, the line into glasgow/edinburgh, the manchester lines (avoiding stoke), the liverpool lines, the lines to shrewsbury and the lines through stoke as well as the midland mainline and the XC lines making it a huge rail junction hub
Very nice idea as someone who’s Autistic I love the idea of new route and rolling stock to learn this is why I was over the moon to learn of the new scotrail route and train
Make this 1958 with Liverpool Lime st as the common origin point that way you can run Steam locomotives from Liverpool Lime Street to Rugby via Crewe. Basically you got a bundle called Spirit of Steam Liverpool to Rugby via Trent Valley Line.
I would only be interested in a WCML route if it was backdated to when the old electrics (87s etc) still ruled the rails though ECML I will take any era!
