Railways of Devon 1985 - Era-Specific Quick Drive - Released

Following the announcement yesterday of the all new era-specific Quick Drive on the Vulcan Productions 'Railways of Devon 1985' route and the successful stream on Twitch last night, it has now been released.

As ever with Quick Drive, there are limitations to what can be achieved and it will be added to and refined in the future. Please make sure to have a read of the documentation provided with the download.

To download, visit the Quick Drive page by clicking here.

 

Railways of Devon 1985 - Era-Specific Quick Drive

Our first release of 2019 is set to be an all new era-specific Quick Drive on the Vulcan Productions 'Railways of Devon 1985' route.

It's basically Quick Drive as you already know it, but providing you have a selection of the requirements installed then this particular Quick Drive will only spawn rolling stock specific to the represented era, in this case 1985.

The beauty of this system is that you don't necessarily need all of the requirements, it should function in some form no matter what you own. Despite that, the more you do own should give a better experience with much more variety.

Around 160 blueprints and fragments are included, giving around 120 service variations that can be seen throughout the route. This means it should be fairly different no matter how many times you run it although there will inevitably be times where things can be duplicated. 

Due to the nature of how the randomisation works, some runs will have a low amount of traffic, some moderate and some quite heavy. 

There are express services formed of High Speed Trains in differing variations, Cross Country loco-hauled services with different forms of traction and local services that produce both loco-hauled and DMU variations. More rare spawns as you traverse the route could include freight and parcel services can also appear along with loco-hauled relief services and light engine movements. Certain variations of the loco-hauled local services also have a lower spawn rate to reflect locomotive liveries that were fewer in number.

All being well, this will be released tomorrow at both DPSimulation and Vulcan Productions and Tom from the VP team will be streaming the Quick Drive from 19:30 tonight on his Twitch channel. During the stream there will also be a giveaway for one free copy of the recently released RW Enhancer program.

 

Mindful that there is a current seasonal Steam sale on Train Simulator products that ends tomorrow, I have made the manual available on my website in case anyone wants to pick up any requirements they don't have. This can be found on the Quick Drive page by clicking here.

5F07 - 0510 Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs to Woking

I have just published a new scenario for Train Simulator on the DPSimulation website.

The scenario is part of the 'Short Hops' collection on our website, where the scenarios are designed to be no more than 30 minutes in duration. Ideal when you really fancy a drive but haven't got a great deal of spare time. Another advantage to the shorter scenario means that they often also have less requirements.

 

The scenario is based on an empty stock working from Wimbledon Park Depot to Woking using a South West Trains 8-Car Class 455 EMU. You will drive the train from the depot to Woking where the train will form a passenger service back to London Waterloo. As you are an empty stock working and therefore have lower priority, you can expect restrictive signals during the journey.

Requirements

 

London Waterloo to Portsmouth

 

To download this scenario, please visit our 'Short Hops' page by clicking here.  

 

 

5Z42 - 0735 Glazebrook to Manchester Oxford Road

I have just published a new scenario for Train Simulator on the DPSimulation website.

The scenario is part of the 'Short Hops' collection on our website, where the scenarios are designed to be no more than 30 minutes in duration. Ideal when you really fancy a drive but haven't got a great deal of spare time. Another advantage to the shorter scenario means that they often also have less requirements.

The scenario is based on a service from Glazebrook to Manchester Oxford Road using a Northern Rail 2-Car Class 150/2 DMU. Due to earlier delays on the inbound service to Warrington Central, the service was terminated short of it's destination and the return journey is starting short at Glazebrook.

Requirements

Liverpool to Manchester - Steam
Class 156 Pack - Steam
Class 150/2 Pack - Armstrong Powerhouse

Repaints

M5000 Metrolink Tram – DPSimulation - Link

EMT Class 158 – DPSimulation - Link

Optional

Class 156 Branding Pack - DPSimulation - Link

To download this scenario, please visit our 'Short Hops' page by clicking here.  

1L14 - 0543 Salisbury to London Waterloo

I have just published a new scenario for Train Simulator on the DPSimulation website.

The scenario is part of a new 'Short Hops' collection on our website, where the scenarios are designed to be no more than 30 minutes in duration. Ideal when you really fancy a drive but haven't got a great deal of spare time. Another advantage to the shorter scenario means that they often also have less requirements.

The first scenario in question is based on a service from Salisbury to London Waterloo using a South West Trains 3-Car Class 159 DMU and will see you drive the section from Woking to the busy terminus and it will take around 25-30 minutes to complete.

Because of the nature of the memory intensive rolling stock that is provided with the London Waterloo to Portsmouth route, along with increased traffic as you get closer to the capital, it is recommended you use the 64-bit version of Train Simulator.

The requirements are as follows:

London Waterloo to Portsmouth - Steam
Network SouthEast Class 159 - Steam
Class 158/159 (Cummins) Enhancement Pack - Armstrong Powerhouse

To download this scenario, please visit our new 'Short Hops' page by clicking here.

 

Timetable Archive - Overview

As the new December timetable comes into force I thought it would probably be beneficial to give an overview of what is now currently in the archive. Not much in the way of recent additions other than those mentioned previously although I believe I have now added everything from the new December timetable. Not strictly timetables that can be classed as historic at this point but they will be in the future.
The following companies are now covered. In some cases there are only very recent timetables and in some cases they go back to the start of the millenium:

• Anglia Railways
• Arriva Trains Wales
• c2c
• Caledonian Sleeper
• Chiltern Railways
• Crosscountry
• East Coast
• East Midlands Trains
• Eurostar
• First Great Western
• First Hull Trains
• Gatwick Express
• GNER
• Grand Central
• Greater Anglia
• Great Western Railway
• Hull Trains
• LNER
• London Midland
• London Northwestern Railway
• London Overground
• Midland Mainline
• National Express East Anglia
• National Express East Coast
• Northern Railway
• ScotRail
• Southeastern
• Southern
• South Western Railway
• TfL Rail
• TFW Rail
• Thameslink
• TransPennine Express
• Virgin Trains
• Virgin Trains East Coast
• WAGN
• Wales & Borders
• Wessex Trains
• West Midlands Railway
• Wrexham & Shropshire

For our friends over the pond an archive has also started to build with the following companies:

• Alaska Railroad
• Amtrak
• Brightline
• MARC
• Metrolink
• NJ Transit
• SEPTA

Thanks to those who have been in touch so far to help out and give encouragement. From some of you that have been in touch it has become apparent that a small number of scenarios have already been created using this resource.

The timetable archive can be found by clicking here.

 

As well as the archive, I have also listed a page that will be updated when needed that lists all current timetables from UK TOC's. Basically all .pdf files that are listed at multiple different sites but all listed on one easy to use (hopefully!) page.

 

The current UK timetables page can be found by clicking here.