The slightly angular driving wheel tyres aren't really noticeable in-game, and the finish on the loco is very good, not the bright or strong hues seen on some MSTS steamers. More suitable LNER carriages I will get from UKTS, those available being superior to the stock Scotsman rake. This route comes with a lovely LNER K4 and some more Mk1s, this time 'blood and custard'. The included 3f 'Jinty' seen here is said to be a substitute for the 3f and 4f tender engines actually used, and it's a nice model, though I'll have to find a proper cab for it, as it defaults to the stock Scotsman's!Īs does this rather nice 'Black 5' - I think Jubilee cabs are recommended and available over at MSTS. The first pics are from a nice little route called the Stratford on Avon and Midland Junction Railway, set in the 1950s, and both feature included stock. The included routes are Blackpool tramway, Ayr to Stranraer (diesel era), Inverness to Wick (diesel) and the two steam-era routes illustrated here. Fortunately I was able to copy the contents of the CD onto the HDD of a Win 10 machine, burn that to disk, and then install it from there onto my original box.

I never actually got around to loading any of its routes and when Open Rails got me back into MSTS just recently, I found I could not install anything from it on my Vista PC. One of these was 'Trainsim UK - Route Compilation for MS Train Sim'. Thanks Rufuskins! I think I need to learn how to use the 'resize' function here as some pics are getting truncated on the RH side, but here we go again!īack about 2005 or so, I got a couple of CDs from UKtrainsim, great value at probably about a fiver a pop. Next to come, some pics from a couple of fine freeware routes I've recently downloaded from UKTS. OR's ability to zoom to a telephoto-like field of view helps, as the more compressed perspective looks better on pics of trains than the stock MSTS 'wide angle lens' external view.Īs the route uses excellent finescale track, turning on OR's superelevation works, but replaces some (including the superelevated?) track sections with coarse stock ones, so it's best left turned off. Here's the same loco from the outside, leaving Liverpool St at the head of a rake of blue-grey Mk2 air cons.Īnd finally, a couple of shots of a Class 150 Sprinter, illustrating the finely-executed interiors and exteriors in this great add-on, as near to photorealistic as I've seen in MSTS and enough to give a more modern trainsim a run for its (rather greater) money. also love the textures on the retaining wall. Here's the view from their Class 86 - the shadows are fixed but most effective. Making Tracks seem widely recognised as having made some of the best MSTS routes and the best I've seen so far is one of theirs - Great Eastern, featuring the route to Ipswich from London Liverpool Street.

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