ROUTE FEATURES
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Route class: Modern
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Route length: Circa 112 miles
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Beautifully detailed and immersive scenery from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill
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Includes 14 Standard scenarios
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Quick Drive enabled
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40 custom-built stations
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Many custom-built prominent buildings and objects
STATIONS
Note: The London Underground stations marked with an asterisk are not physically connected to Chiltern Main Line.
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London Marylebone
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West Hampstead* (London Underground)
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Kilburn* (London Underground)
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Willesden Green* (London Underground)
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Dollis Hill* (London Underground)
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Neasden* (London Underground)
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Wembley Stadium
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Sudbury & Harrow Road
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Sudbury Hill Harrow
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Northolt Park
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South Ruislip* (London Underground)
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Ruislip Gardens* (London Underground)
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West Ruislip
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Denham
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Denham Golf Club
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Gerrards Cross
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Seer Green and Jordans
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Beaconsfield
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High Wycombe
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Saunderton
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Princes Risborough
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Haddenham and Thame Parkway
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Bicester Village
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Bicester North
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Kings Sutton
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Banbury
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Leamington Spa
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Warwick
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Warwick Parkway
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Hatton
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Lapworth
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Dorridge
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Widney Manor
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Solihull
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Olton
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Acocks Green
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Tyseley
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Small Heath
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Birmingham Moor Street
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Birmingham Snow Hill
FEATURES TO LOOK OUT FOR ON THE ROUTE
Numerous landmark buildings and other features of interest have been modelled along the length of the Chiltern Main Line route – these are just a few of them, in the order you’d see them when driving from London to Birmingham.
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BNP Paribas building
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Marylebone tunnel northern and southern entrance/exit
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London Underground (the route runs beside the Jubilee and Metropolitan London Underground (LU) lines between Finchley Road and Neasden LU stations)
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Brent Central Mosque
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Neasden Rail Depot
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Wembley Light Maintenance Depot
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Wembley Stadium
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Victoria Road Waste Transfer Station
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Ruislip London Underground Depot
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Denham Country Park
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Gerrards Cross Tunnel
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Bicester Chord
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Aynho Junction
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Banbury South signal box
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Network Rail Training Facility – Banbury
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Semaphore signals – Banbury
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Banbury North signal box
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Breedon Concrete plant/terminal
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MOD Kineton Junction
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Harbury tunnel and cutting
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Leamington Spa station
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Tyseley Locomotive Works
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Tyseley Light Maintenance Depot
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Tyseley Warwick Road station
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Tyseley Carriage Sidings
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Tyseley signal box
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Small Heath Yard
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Bullring Shopping Centre
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BT Tower Birmingham
SCENARIOS
Standard scenarios
Please note that although some of the scenarios use the default locomotives and rolling stock, some require extra items to allow them to run correctly. See the System Requirements for full details
1H35 Snow Hill – Marylebone
Required stock: Class 165 Networker Turbo (Steam)
Duration: 110 minutes
Drive a pair of DMUs on the 11:12 Birmingham Snow Hill – London Marylebone service in the summer of 2016.
1T52 Marylebone – Oxford Parkway
Required stock: Class 166 FGW (Steam)
Duration: 50 minutes
Drive a Chiltern unit on 1T52 from Marylebone to Bicester Village in August 2016.
1Y45 Oxford Parkway – Marylebone
Required stock: Class 166 FGW (Steam)
Duration: 50 minutes
Drive a Chiltern DMU on 1Y45 from Oxford Parkway – Marylebone between Bicester Village and London Marylebone in August 2016.
2U01 High Wycombe – Banbury
Required stock: Class 166 FGW (Steam)
Duration: 60 minutes
Drive a Chiltern unit on 2U01 High Wycombe – Banbury on a damp morning in September 2016.
Birmingham Bound Stopper
Required stock: Class 170 DMU LM (Steam), Class 150/2 (Steam)
Duration: 60 minutes
Drive a Class 172 (using the Class 170) from Leamington – Birmingham Snow Hill before working a Stratford-bound train as far as Tyseley in the summer of 2016.
6A58 Calvert – Northolt
Required stock: Class 66 EWS (Steam), Class 67 Advanced (JT)
Duration: 45 minutes
Drive 66147 as it works the 6A58 Calvert – Northolt empty binliner train on 19 July 2013. You will be in control from Princes Risborough to Northolt WLW sidings.
1U50 Marylebone – Banbury
Required stock: Class 68 (Steam)
Duration: 77 minutes
Drive 68010 on 1U50 17:21 Marylebone – Banbury in August 2016.
The Positioning Run
Required stock: GWR 3700 Class No.3440 (2004-2006) (JT)
Duration: 60 minutes
Drive 3440 ‘City of Truro’ from Birmingham Snow Hill to Banbury on a positioning trip on 26 November 2004.
1O80 06:31 Birmingham New Street – Southampton
Required stock: Voyager Advanced (JT)
Duration: 40 minutes
Drive a Voyager from Small Heath to Banbury whilst working 1O80 in July 2016.
1U56 18:50 Marylebone – Banbury
Required stock: JT Class 67 (WS & MR Silver) (JT)
Duration: 75 minutes
Drive 67014 on 1U56 18:59 Marylebone – Banbury throughout January 2013.
Steam to Bicester
Required stock: SD BR Std 7MT Britannia 70013 (JT)
Duration: 72 minutes
Drive 70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ from London Marylebone to Bicester Village on a special excursion.
Steam to Marylebone
Required stock: SD BR Std 7MT Britannia 70013 (JT), Voyager Advanced (JT)
Duration: 90 minutes
Drive 70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ from Tyseley to London Marylebone on a special steam excursion which is in service from Solihull.
S8 Stock Transfer Part One
Required stock: Class 20 Advanced (JT), Voyager Advanced (JT)
Duration: 100 minutes
Drive 20314 and 20901 on 7X09 Old Dalby – West Ruislip LUL Depot as far as Banbury on 1 September 2014.
S8 Stock Transfer Part Two
Required stock: Class 20 Advanced (JT)
Duration: 90 minutes
Drive 20314 and 20901 from Banbury to West Ruislip LU Depot on 7X09. This scenario includes the triple shuffle reverse move to access the LU lines at West Ruislip!
Free Roam scenarios
Click on a train and take it for a drive!
Birmingham Moor Street
London Marylebone
