Atomic Systems

Been playing trainz for a while and recently got my hands on MSTS.
Obviously the default routes are a bit poo. So I was wondering if any of you could reccomend a good route (preferebly with lots of activities), so make me go oooh and ahhh.
The more moron proof the install the better.

I like diesel and electric commuter runs a lot.

Try Thames _ Mersey from UKTS£4.50, or Westcoastway, London_ Brighton or London South East. the last 3 can either be bought from Play.com or Eisenbahnn.or UKTS about £24.99.

There are 2 new routes coming soon 1 from making tracks covers Liverpool St to Ipswich, and 1 from Eisenbahnn, Eastcoastway from Kings X - York both set in the late 1990s

thegoonden wrote:I like diesel and electric commuter runs a lot.

Have a look at the latest review of LSE on the home page of this site. If your PC can handle it, that would be a good one for you to start with.

Follow the Route Registry link in the middle of the top of this site's home page. The registry was set up to answer just your sort of questions.

Eisenbahnn

Actually its Europeanbahn (http://www.Europeanbahn.co.uk)

michaelh wrote:Try Thames _ Mersey from UKTS£4.50, or Westcoastway, London_ Brighton or London South East. the last 3 can either be bought from Play.com or Eisenbahnn.or UKTS about £24.99.

There are 2 new routes coming soon 1 from making tracks covers Liverpool St to Ipswich, and 1 from Eisenbahnn, Eastcoastway from Kings X - York both set in the late 1990s

i think you mean late 80's don't you

Hi
I can honestly recommend the Severn Valley Add on and the East Lancashire Railway also West Somerset and Swanage Route they're really fabulous.
Kind Regards Stephen.

That's the main reason I asked here, the route registry is very good if you know what you're looking for already ( it found ballyshannon for me, which goes on me shopping list). But it aint much cop for answering "what should I look at to see the true state of play on MSTS right now". You've given me many suggestions, tho for now the payware ones are out of reach, been on the sick for a year and am living on, well not enough to buy 45quid's worth of rail layout, better keep lookin for the freebies for now.
I definitely find MSTS superior to trainz in a few ways, but for me, personally, it seems a little cold and soulless, I'm sorry I can#t be more specific.

So perhaps I should have said, point me to something downloadable from this illustrious site, that will make me go ooooh and ahhh.....at least until some beans can be found to cough up for some payware routes.

Cheers guys.

At least I could get all my lovely NIR vehicles for it, which made me a most happy camper.

In that case if it's the oooh ahh factor you want you could get Scottish Central (Edinburgh Waverley to across the Forth Bridge) and the new Derby-Burton route. Both use UKFineScale track which is a vast improvement over the default track.

and of cause there always Highworth to wait for........

Get the mega route bundle. The West Highland line and the North of Scotland line are excellent. It also includes the SMJ line which is delightful. You get a sense of the feel that a late steam period line would give, a sort of gentle nostalgia.

The SMJ and West Highland can be downloaded from here but the Nothern Scotland line is only on CD so just as well to purchase the CD and get the routes in an easy to install format. They also come with all the required trains and rolling stock.

How about Bala hub 4?, it is on CD, but only for the normal sum of £4.50 or thereabouts, which is only to cover the cost of the cd distribution.

I admit it is well outside your preffered era and railway type, but you can still realistically run earlier diesels over it and it definately in my opinion has got the 'oooh' factor. Its a hell of a lot of railway to run over for one route and alongside Skipton-Carlisle i think it is *the* most detailed freeware route going. I never fail to be impressed by the level of detail that the author has managed to keep up over the entire route.

I still recommend MidEast UK for its operational joys, and despite its scenic shortcomings.

Wupper Express 8, though German, is good too, especially for those who like commuter and semi-fast passenger work.

The Albula line is stunning if you want glorious scenery.

London-Brighton is a little dated, but still operationally good - and is practically a completely commuter line, while the Westcoastway Express (Brighton-Portsmouth) continues the theme.

It has nothing to do with diesel / electric commuter trains, but the Harzquerbahn (from http://www.thetrain.de I think) is one of my personal top 5 routes - Probably because it comes with about 3 million activities and plenty of stock! If you fancy driving a monsterous 2-10-2T then that's the route to get.

North West England is a good route for commuter operation, the only criticism I can think of is that it's built so the End-of-the-World line goes right through the middle of most of the activities, so you have to keep saving/ loading in the middle of acts. Oh, and you have to drive a pacer in some activities, which is another major downside - easy enough to change to a proper train though!