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There's an AP sale on currently. Bought the class 150, HST Valenta and VP 185 packs and the weather enhancement pack. https://www.facebook.com/armstrongpowerhouse/ I quite like driving the trains with tread brakes, like the 150 and the 205 (thumper). Just got to be a bit more cautious when...

I agree it looks good, however, for the amount of time I play it, it’s simply not worth me buying all these enhancement packs, plus id Rather spend my money on trains rather than some pretty clouds or trees. If I want good graphics I can play train sim world. It would be good if they did a deal...

It’s all getting a bit silly now. The weather and track enhancements were good but now I think they’ve gone a bit overboard with the cloud, signal and now vegetation enhancement packs. What next, a bridge enhancement pack? An overhead wires enhancement pack? Feels like they’re just making stuff...

I agree with this. I also think the lighting is too bright and although the graphics look good, it has that oversaturated look to it. It looks kind of fake, whereas train sim Classic, despite the graphics being much older, looks more realistic in a way with the much more toned down lighting and...

Train Simulator Classic (from Steam) will run ok on 4 GB RAM, although you will need to turn some settings down, and you may get some lag on busier routes. OpenBve (which is free) will also run fine, which is a very old but very realistic train simulator. OMSI 2 is a very realistic bus simulator...

In my opinion, I think a 100 mph EMU would be overkill for the east lancs line. The line speed is about 70 mph maximum, so a 75 mph train would be fine, and anything more than two coaches would also be overkill for that route - except maybe on a saturday on a nice day in summer. Most modern...

Mostly yes. However, there is a Blackpool North to York semi-express service which uses it which would be better running as a heavy rail service, as it provides a fast link between Lancashire and Yorkshire. So I think running the line as a mix of heavy rail and light rail (like parts of the Tyne...

So for a while now I've thought that it would be a good idea for some lightly used lines to be converted to a light rail system, like the Tyne and Wear Metro, the Manchester Metrolink or maybe even a busway. There was a thread made recently "Have trains had thier day?" where someone suggested...

In these cases will the passengers who wanted to get off but couldn’t and had to travel to the next station and get off and catch another train back again be compensated for the extra single ticket they would have to have bought (or just risk getting on without buying and hope the guard doesn’t...

Tbh, I’m surprised they haven’t closed the ticket offices down and switched to ticket machines. My local line is operated by northern and a lot of the ticket offices near me have or are in the process of closing down or drastically reducing their opening hours. Sometimes the ticket machines are...

To new honest, if it had been me, I would have just told them a false name and address. I’m Mark Smith from 14, Station Road, Liverpool for example. But very strange how they managed to get his address and dob just from his name.

I agree it would not work for busy routes, but for quiet shuttle routes like Preston to Ormskirk, Cardiff Bay to Cardiff Queen Street or Darlington to Bishop Auckland, it would work really well. All those routes used to be served by what was essentially a bus on rails anyway.

Your idea is something I’ve thought about before. The government from the 1980’s would have probably loved to implement your idea. Instead, to save money, they compromised and chose to replace old DMU’s with a bus-like train called a pacer, which, until quite recently were still being used on...

its a good example of how the focus of the railways has changed from comfort and style to trying to cram in as many seats in a carriage as cheaply as possible. Though to be fair, they were brought in to replace aging 1st generation dmu’s. That’s the same time I went on one! I also went on a...

I bet they were. They should have made more of the pacers 3 cars imo, it would have eased overcrowding on a lot of routes. The fact that they also didn’t have doors at the ends of the train wasn't ideal for connecting to other pacers/sprinters either.

I have only been on a 144 once when in service between Leeds and Keighley and this year in preservation from Keighley to Oxenhope and back again. It was always 142’s on my local line in Lancashire. While the interior is more modern than most of the 142’s, it still feels like a pacer, the engine...

Got Chat GPT to write a humorous story about an unfortunate scenario that could happen on a preserved railway. Ah, the tale of a man with a passion for steam trains and an unrelenting disdain for Pacer trains. What a day it promised to be when he decided to take his unsuspecting family to a...

The class 144 pacer will be out on the East Lancs Railway for their Autumn Diesel Gala next weekend.

Ive only been on a 143 once between Newton Abbot and Paignton in 2017, but from the videos I’ve seen they do seem quite speedy, the 142’s though, not so much..

158’s still feel way too modern for heritage railways, I don’t think many would want to ride one, but I think a few 150’s May have some success on heritage lines.