East Coast Mainline: North East - Middlesbrough to Darlington Preview

Uploaded courtesy of GamesNexxt, a video showing the portion of the Tees Valley line between Middlesbrough and Darlington.

Apologies for the poor capture quality, the use of video recording software always takes away system resources and I had to adjust settings accordingly. Also please accept my apologies for the bout of stuttering near Allens West, it should not detract from the overall enjoyment of the video.

New Route - Strawberry Line

I am pleased to announce the release of a new route at DPSimulation, 'The Strawberry Line' by Vern Moorhouse. Vern explains more.....

'This route is a scaled up version of the 5" gauge Strawberry Line Miniature Railway, located in the Avon Valley Adventure & Wildlife Park at Keynsham, near Bristol UK. This is a concept I've been wanting to experiment with for some time in a train sim and I'm quite pleased with the results. The route is effectively a dog-bone which folds back on itself twice. Scaled up to Standard Gauge, one circuit comes out at just under 4 miles. Due to the low speed I have not used transition curves or superelevation (cant) and while the main line is fully signalled I have not provided AWS or TPWS.'

The route requires both the European Loco & Asset Pack and the Isle Of Wight DLC, both available from Steam.

Thanks to Vern for creating this very pleasing and picturesque little route, and also for allowing DPSimulation to host.

The route can be downloaded from by following this link.

Summer Reboot Sale!

Following several emails during the past week or so from people who missed the DPSimulation sale due to either being on holiday or spending too much in the Steam sale, I have started the 'Summer Reboot' sale for this week only until Friday 11^th July at 10am BST.

All separate packs have a massive 33% discount applied. Alternatively, if you purchase the scenario multipack, use the code SUMMERREBOOT in the basket to receive a massive 50% discount and receive all scenario packs for just £6.49!

With a wide variety of scenario packs to choose from, there may be something that interests you, with both modern and period tastes catered for including the very well received 'SP05' which combines BR Blue traction on a completely overhauled Newcastle to York route! 

As ever, all packs are sold on a 'not for profit' basis and all proceeds are used to help fund the growing library of free content so visit the DPSimulation store now and pick up a bargain!

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/dpsstore/

Approaching Ferryhill on the East Coast Main Line.  'SP05'

  

37229 awaits departure time at Carlisle.  'SP08'

A Class 91 at Carlisle during the Tyne Valley diversions.  'SP06'

92003 prepares to depart Polmadie with empty sleeper stock.   'SP06'

Test Train Saturday

I have just uploaded a bumper new selection of repaints to the DPSimulation website on behalf of Richard Fletcher.

Firstly, we have three repaints, 37405, 37409 & 37667, of the Class 37 locomotive included with Portsmouth Direct Line and all in DRS livery, one of which also includes a custom made 3D nameplate.

Next we have a set of Mk2e coach repaints in Network Rail livery. These require the Mk2e Coach Pack from Armstrong Powerhouse. As this pack was recently updated to make way for the new DBSO, these repaints have not been tested on an older version of these coaches .

Finally, we have another Network Rail coach repaint, this time using an ex Royal Train vehicle and this requires the Class 67 Diamond Jubilee pack from Steam. There are also optional instructions included with this pack to make modifications to these coaches but this is not essential. Use of this optional instruction is done so at your own risk.

They can all be downloaded from the dedicated Richard Fletcher page by clicking here.

East Coast Mainline: North East - Early Access

I have now started to send out the details via email for access to the new version of East Coast Mainline: North East to those who have applied so far. Those who had early access on Steam cannot be automatically moved over, they must contact me again using the address below.

Early Access is provided as a way of thanks to those who have donated to DPSimulation in order to help with costs towards funding the growing library of content. If you have previously donated and would like to receive access, then send your Steam username via the address below, the same applies to anyone who has not donated yet, but wishes to do so.

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/contactus.html

Colas Rail Class 70 Released

It's been a few days since the last release, so here is a cracker from Mr Fletcher, a Class 70 in Colas Rail livery. It can be downloaded, as ever, from the following page and obviously requires the Class 70 locomotive from the Steam store.

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/rf72reskins.html

I have also uploaded three new scenarios from Peter Hill (lighthousepoet), called 'Back Shift', which all make use of the scenario chaining feature, meaning they can be either used separately, or will load consecutively on the completion of each part. The first part replaces the '1L60' scenario that was on the website for WCML Over Shap, and the final two parts cover the Western Lines Of Scotland route. They can be downloaded from the relevant scenario pages for each route.

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/shap.html

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/wlos.html