Western Main Lines from Just Trains

[tycoonkid9]

It appears DTG will be building a route with all the track covered on this JT route...

[deltic009]

It appears DTG will be building a route with all the track covered on this JT route...

Well, if you exclude the short spurs of Exeter to Bristol and Paddington to Bristol LOL.

You are spectacularly wrong.

[chrisreb]

It appears DTG will be building a route with all the track covered on this JT route...

Well, if you exclude the short spurs of Exeter to Bristol and Paddington to Bristol LOL.

You are spectacularly wrong.

Plus the Avonmouth, Portbury and Severn beach bits of course......

[Kernow2]

It appears DTG will be building a route with all the track covered on this JT route...

Well, if you exclude the short spurs of Exeter to Bristol and Paddington to Bristol LOL.

You are spectacularly wrong.

Isn't it a strange old world - to me tycoonkid9 's quote made perfect sense and was correct, yet when I read delticoo9's comment his makes sense too!
Think I'm going flightsimming until the trainsim world becomes a clearer place for my tired just-got-in-from-work-brain!

[AScottinManc]

This sounds interesting! With DTG making a Class 175 this route will give it somewhere to run, I'll defo be buying this.

Will this route run via the Rivera Line or does it branch of? If my memory serves me correctly I think it doesn't as it branches of somewhere and the Rivera Line goes in another direction, I'm not sure though. Would be cool to do HST runs from Paddington to Cardiff

[tubemad]

No the Riviera splits off down the line at Newton Abbot, but that's not to say you can't do Paddington to Paignton.

There is at least one or more HST that does Paddington - Paignton via Bristol. Paddington to Exeter via BTM on JT's route, then Exeter to Paignton on RSC's Riviera route

[96tommy]

Taken off the Just Trains website:

Western Mainlines: Paddington-Bristol, Bristol-Cardiff and Bristol-Exeter

Set in the years between 2013 and 2015, Western Mainlines consists of three newly developed routes from the terminus station of London Paddington to Bristol, from Bristol to Cardiff and from Bristol to Exeter, all connected seamlessly together in this one pack. Featuring both the south lines through Box Tunnel and the northern lines via Bristol Parkway, as well as the lines to Oxford, Western Mainlines features 60 stations and numerous new custom assets along with a set of 16 extensive scenarios. The route is Quick Drive enabled.

Paddington to Bristol - this line is the main route running East-West in southern England. Starting from its grand London terminus at Paddington, it runs out to Bristol and from there to Cardiff in Wales and south-west from Bristol to Exeter in this simulation. The line is largely non-electrified, but in the late 1990s the section from Paddington to Heathrow Airport was electrified. There are plans to electrify all of the route but this work is taking time and has been beset by numerous delays.

Bristol to Cardiff - the route from Bristol to Cardiff is part of the South Wales Main Line and continues the westward journey. It breaks away from the main Paddington-Bristol line at Royal Wootton Bassett and continues under the River Severn using the Severn Tunnel. There are plans to electrify the whole route but, again, there have been numerous delays.

Bristol to Exeter - the line from Bristol to Exeter is a major branch of the line from Paddington to Bristol and runs south-west from Bristol.


Route features
• Route class: Modern
• Route length: Over 300 miles in total
• 60 stations
• Beautifully detailed and immersive scenery along the Thames Valley and down to Exeter
• Includes 16 standard and 9 free roam scenarios
• Route is Quick Drive enabled
• Just Trains all-new modern LED signals
• Just Trains all-new Overhead Catenary (OHLE)

Important! If you purchased Train Simulator after 20 September 2012 then you will require the European Loco & Asset Pack (available to purchase via Steam) for the route to display correctly.

STATIONS

• Paddington
• Acton Mainline
• Ealing Broadway
• West Ealing
• Hanwell
• Southall
• Hayes & Harlington
• West Drayton
• Iver
• Langley
• Slough
• Burnham
• Taplow
• Maidenhead
• Twyford
• Reading
• Tilehurst
• Pangbourne
• Goring and Streatley
• Cholsey
• Didcot
• Appleford
• Culham
• Radley
• Oxford
• Swindon
• Chippenham
• Bath Spa
• Oldfield Park
• Keynsham
• Bristol Temple Meads
• Lawrence Hill
• Stapleton Road
• Filton Abbey
• Bristol Parkway
• Patchway
• Pilning
• Severn Beach
• St Andrews Road
• Shirehampton
• Sea Mills
• Clifton Down
• Redland
• Montpelier
• Severn Tunnel Junction
• Newport
• Cardiff
• Bedminster
• Parson Street
• Nailsea and Blackwell
• Yatton
• Worle
• Weston Milton
• Weston-super-Mare
• Highbridge and Burnham
• Bridgewater
• Taunton
• Tiverton Parkway
• Exeter St. Davids

CUSTOM BUILDINGS AND POINTS OF INTEREST

• Paddington Central Offices
• Novotel Paddington
• Westbourne Buildings
• Westbourne Studios
• Trellick Tower
• North Pole depot
• Old Oak Common train depot
• Plesser Works
• Southall Water Tower
• Southall Gasometer
• Heathrow Express flyover
• Holiday Inn and flats, Slough
• Slough Tesco
• O2 building and Slough bus station
• Reading multi-storey car park
• Reading Train Care depot
• Didcot Railway Centre
• Didcot Power Station
• Signal Point building Swindon
• Swindon Storage depot
• Steam Museum Swindon
• Box Tunnel
• Bath Bus depot
• Westerleigh Oil Depot
• Glass Wharf - Burgess Salmon building
• Filton Airport
• Concorde at Filton Airport
• Clifton Suspension bridge
• Blue office building Bristol
• Multi-Colour Flats Bristol
• One Temple Quay (Bank of Ireland) Bristol
• IBIS Hotel Bristol
• SS Great Britain Bristol
• Barton Hill DMU Shed Bristol
• Avonmouth Biomass holder
• Avonmouth Docks
• Hillfield Railway Tunnel
• Maldron Hotel Cardiff
• BT Stadium House Cardiff
• Altolusso Building Cardiff
• Meridian Gate Cardiff
• Big Sleep Hotel Cardiff
• ING Direct building Cardiff
• Millennium Stadium Cardiff
• Canton Train Maintenance Depot Cardiff
• Freightliner Bristol West Depot
• Cogload Junction
• Taunton Water Tower
• Fairwater Yard
• West Somerset Railway Triangle
• Barnstaple Junction (repeatedly floods)
• Exeter College
• Exeter Riverside
• Station signs
• Warehouses
• Garages
• Numerous custom objects: misc. signs, speed signs, mileposts, plant pots and numerous station furniture such as seats, escalators, phone boxes, luggage trolleys, benches - and much more!

SCENARIOS

Note: Some of the scenarios use default Train Simulator stock, but for certain scenarios to run correctly, the following locomotives are required. Locomotives followed by 'Steam' in brackets can be purchased from the Steam website (http://www.steampowered.com):

EWS Class 67 (Steam)
If you purchased Train Simulator after 20 September 2012 then you will require the European Loco & Asset Pack (available to purchase via Steam) to obtain the following locomotives:
Class 47 (Steam)
Class 166 (Steam)
HST (Steam)
Locomotives followed by ‘JT’ in brackets can be purchased from the Just Trains website (http://www.justtrains.net):
• BR 5MT Advanced (JT)
• BR 7MT Advanced (JT)
• Class 67 Advanced (JT)
• Class 153 DMU Advanced (JT)
• Voyager Advanced (JT)
• Class 60 Advanced

Standard scenarios

Early Morning Eastwards
Required stock: HST (Steam)
Duration: 115 minutes
Take the first train from Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington.

Exeter to Paddington
Required stock: HST (Steam)
Duration: 180 minutes
Take the lunchtime train from Exeter to London Paddington.

A Glimpse to the Future
Required stock: Class 801
Duration: 45 minutes
As the first of the Class 801 starts testing, a unit is transferred to OOC for route testing. Take this night-time train from the sidings at OOC to Paddington, then under the wires to Hayes & Harlington and return.

(JT) Class 67 – Cardiff Rugby Special
Required stock: Class 67 Advanced (JT)
Duration: 150 minutes
The Rugby World Cup is under way and special trains have been laid on to reduce the stress on normal services. Take a Class 67 from Paddington to Cardiff.

(DTG) Class 67 – Cardiff Rugby Special
Required stock: EWS Class 67 (Steam)
Duration: 150 minutes
The Rugby World Cup is under way and special trains have been laid on to reduce the stress on normal services. Take a Class 67 from Paddington to Cardiff.


(JT) Class 60 – Crossrail Spoils
Required stock: Class 60 Advanced (JT)
Duration: 90 minutes
Take a train of spoil from the Crossrail site at Paddington to Hinksey Yard.

(JT) Class 60 – Dockside Shunting
Required stock: Class 60 Advanced (JT)
Duration: 50 minutes
Avonmouth docks has a lot of wagons that need moving up to Stoke Gifford in a trip working ready for onward movement. You will shunt them and take the train up to the yard.

Dockside Shunting
Required stock: Class 47 (Steam)
Duration: 50 minutes
Avonmouth docks has a lot of wagons that need moving up to Stoke Gifford in a trip working ready for onward movement. You will shunt them and take the train up to the yard.

(JT) Voyager – Voyager to Didcot
Required stock: Voyager Advanced (JT)
Duration: 75 minutes
Due to unit shortages FGW have hired a pair of Cross Country Voyagers to go from Bristol Temple Meads to Didcot.

Christmas Special
Required stock: Class 166 (Steam)
Duration: 54 minutes
It’s Christmas morning and the works party has just finished. Take the tired workers home on a special service along the Severn Beach line.

First Service to Severn Beach
Required stock: Class 166 (Steam)
Duration: 45 minutes
This morning we will take the first service to Severn Beach from BTM.

Early Morning to London
Required stock: Class 166 (Steam)
Duration: 105 minutes
Take the first service from Oxford to London Paddington.

(SD) Britannia – Steam Special to Exeter
Required stock: BR7 MT Advanced (JT)
Duration: 220 minutes
Drive this steam tour from London Paddington to Exeter via Bristol Temple Meads.

(JT) 5MT – Steam Special to Exeter
Required stock: BR Standard Class 5MT Advanced (JT)
Duration: 220 minutes
Drive this steam tour from London Paddington to Exeter via Bristol Temple Meads.

HST to Bristol
Required stock: HST (Steam)
Duration: 110 minutes
Take the 0857 HST from London Paddington to Bristol.

(JT) Class 153 – First Service to Severn Beach
Required stock: Class 153 DMU Advanced (JT)
Duration: 45 minutes
This morning we will take the first service to Severn Beach from BTM.


Free Roam scenarios

Note: As these are Free Roam scenarios you must remember to ensure that the route has been set correctly to avoid being directed into sidings or derailed on junctions set against the train.

• Bristol Temple Meads Free Roam
• Cardiff Free Roam
• Didcot Free Roam
• Exeter Free Roam
• Newport Free Roam
• Oxford Free Roam
• Paddington Free Roam
• Reading Station Free Roam
• Swindon Free Roam

[gptech]

That'd be the same page linked to in the first post in the thread then Trev.....

[Trev123]

I was only going by JTs post on FB of 2hrs ago saying "And just to finish off a most exciting evening, the full product details for the upcoming Western Mainlines route are now available to view on the website."

[gptech]

I don't think it's changed since I first looked, though of course it may have been much less of an informative page when Ash first posted about it. Looks very interesting, though I just hope it goes *right*, the problems many had with Newcastle to Edinburgh and Kyle took away the shine from those routes.

[Trev123]

Yes sure dose look pretty good.

[rosschris10]

As much as this route sounds great I don't think I am a fan of these long routes I don't fancy sitting there for 180 minutes driving a hst on a express run. And before someone says save it and return to it I know you can do that but that has been proven to cause problems in the past with AI etc etc. Think I will pass on this one the dtg edition will get my vote This dies look good though but at I resent a 180 minute drive is to much for me

[thetrainfan]

As much as this route sounds great I don't think I am a fan of these long routes I don't fancy sitting there for 180 minutes driving a hst on a express run. And before someone says save it and return to it I know you can do that but that has been proven to cause problems in the past with AI etc etc. Think I will pass on this one the dtg edition will get my vote This dies look good though but at I resent a 180 minute drive is to much for me

Who's saying you have to drive for 180 minutes?

[rosschris10]

As much as this route sounds great I don't think I am a fan of these long routes I don't fancy sitting there for 180 minutes driving a hst on a express run. And before someone says save it and return to it I know you can do that but that has been proven to cause problems in the past with AI etc etc. Think I will pass on this one the dtg edition will get my vote This dies look good though but at I resent a 180 minute drive is to much for me

Who's saying you have to drive for 180 minutes?

Read the scenario description the timings are there for each scenario. Not for me this one

[thetrainfan]

As much as this route sounds great I don't think I am a fan of these long routes I don't fancy sitting there for 180 minutes driving a hst on a express run. And before someone says save it and return to it I know you can do that but that has been proven to cause problems in the past with AI etc etc. Think I will pass on this one the dtg edition will get my vote This dies look good though but at I resent a 180 minute drive is to much for me

Who's saying you have to drive for 180 minutes?

Read the scenario description the timings are there for each scenario. Not for me this one

I don't mean that. I'm saying who is telling you that you MUST sit for 180 minutes? You don't have to run a scenario for its entirety if you don't want to.