12 STATIONS
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Derby
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Spondon
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Long Eaton
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Attenborough
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Beeston
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Nottingham
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East Midlands Parkway
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Loughborough
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Barrow-upon-Soar
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Sileby
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Syston
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Leicester
FEATURES TO LOOK OUT FOR ON THE ROUTE
Numerous landmark buildings and other features of interest have been modelled along the length of the route – these are some of them, listed in the order you’d see them when driving south from just north of Derby:
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Breadsall Junction
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Breadsall bridge
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St. Mary’s bridge
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Underpass and Derby NHS offices
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Derby bus depot
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Chaddesden Yard
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Pride Parkway bridge
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Health club – Derby
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John Ellis House
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Derby College
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Offices – Derby
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Hotel – Derby
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London Road bridge
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Derby Power Signal Box
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Etches Park Depot
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Derby Rail Technical Centre (RTC)
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Litchurch Lane Works
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Pride Park stadium
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A6005 road bridge
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M1 motorway bridge
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Erewash canal bridge
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Sheet Stores Junction
After Long Eaton station the line divides, going south towards Leicester, north-west to Toton TMD and north-east to Nottingham.
The line to the north-west:
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Tesco superstore
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Sainsbury’s superstore
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Toton TMD
The line to the north-east:
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Disused Cemex loader
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Boots warehouses
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Beeston Yard
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HMRC buildings
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Nottingham Justice Centre
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Eastcroft Depot
The line to the south:
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Cranfleet Canal bridges
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River Trent bridges
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Redhill tunnel portals
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Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
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Site of Hathern station
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Brush works (Wabtec Corporation)
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Site of Great Central Railway new bridge
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Barrow-upon-Soar
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Mountsorrel Sidings aggregate loader
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Gypsum works
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Syston junction
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Pukka Pies site
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Vulcan House
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Charnwood School
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Leicester Power Signal Box
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Leicester Depot
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Moat Community College
SCENARIOS
29 Standard scenarios are included.
Some of the scenarios only require the default Train Simulator stock (these are prefixed with [Default]) and some require additional payware content.
Standard scenarios requiring additional payware stock
[DNL] (1995): 1F62 St Pancras-Derby
Drive 31407+31459, deputising for the booked Class 47 on 1F62 17:20 St Pancras to Derby on 24 February 1995. You will be in control from Leicester.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[DNL] 1D07 07:04 St Pancras-Nottingham
Drive an HST from Leicester to Nottingham on a hazy morning in June 2019.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] 2L77 16:30 Leicester-Lincoln
Drive a Class 156 from Leicester to Nottingham on a wet evening in February 2019.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 5L10 Leicester-Loughborough / 2L10 Loughborough-Leicester
Drive 156473 on an empty coaching stock move to from Leicester to Loughborough, then return to Leicester with the 06:59 stopping service.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard
Drive 66041 on 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard stone empties on 21 August 2018.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 65 minutes
[DNL] 1B28 09:45 Nottingham - 11:24 St Pancras International
Take 1B28 09:45 Nottingham to St Pancras as far as Leicester.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] The Chaddesden Tripper
Prepare 37710 at Toton Depot and then work 6T18 Toton to Chaddesden departmental trip in 2002.
Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 5B41 Derby-Nottingham / 1D21 Nottingham-St Pancras
Drive a Class 222 on 5B41 Derby-Nottingham before working 1D21 through to Leicester in July 2019.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 75 minutes
[DNL] 1C67 17:00 Sheffield-St Pancras
Drive a Class 222 from Derby to Leicester whilst working 1C67 17:00 Sheffield to London St Pancras in June 2019.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] (2007): 6E90 10:34 Mountsorrel-Doncaster
Drive 66708 on a loaded ballast working from Mountsorrel to Doncaster as far as Nottingham in the summer of 2007.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes
[DNL] 1M84 18:45 Cardiff-Nottingham / 5M84 Nottingham-Leicester
Drive a CrossCountry Class 170 from Derby to Nottingham before taking the empty train to Leicester, arriving there at 23:00.
Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 80 minutes
[DNL] The New Measurement Train
Drive the New Measurement Train (HST) from Leicester to Derby Etches Park in 2007.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 50 minutes
[DNL] 1V09 12:07 Nottingham-Cardiff
Drive a Class 170 from Nottingham to Derby whilst working 1V09 to Cardiff in May 2019.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] 6M04 06:45 Humber International Coal Terminal-Ratcliffe PS
Drive 66165 from Nottingham to Ratcliffe power station before working through to Toton with the empty wagons in February 2018.
Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 70 minutes
[DNL] 2A95 17:52 Derby-Nottingham
Drive 158856 from Derby to Nottingham on a stopping service in April 2018.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[DNL] The Robin Hood
Drive 46115 'Scots Guardsman' from Syston Junction to Nottingham with the ‘Robin Hood Railtour’.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes
Standard scenarios using default Train Simulator stock
[Default] [DNL] (1995): 1F62 St Pancras-Derby
Drive a Class 47 on 1F62 17:20 St Pancras to Derby in 1995. You will be in control from Leicester.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1D07 07:04 St Pancras-Nottingham
Drive an HST from Leicester to Nottingham on a hazy morning.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 2L77 16:30 Leicester-Lincoln
Drive from Leicester to Nottingham on a wet evening in February 2019.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 5L10 Leicester-Loughborough / 2L10 Loughborough-Leicester
Drive 156473 on an empty coaching stock move to from Leicester to Loughborough, then return to Leicester with the 06:59 stopping service.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard
Drive 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard from Leicester.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 65 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1B28 09:45 Nottingham – 11:24 St Pancras International
Take 1B28 09:45 Nottingham to St Pancras as far as Leicester.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] 5B41 Derby-Nottingham / 1B41 Nottingham-St Pancras
Drive 5B41 Derby-Nottingham before working 1B41 through to Leicester in July 2019.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 75 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1C67 17:00 Sheffield-St Pancras
Drive from Derby to Leicester whilst working 1C67 17:00 Sheffield to London St Pancras in June 2019.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1M84 18:45 Cardiff-Nottingham / 5M84 Nottingham-Leicester
Drive 1M84 from Derby to Nottingham before taking the empty train to Leicester, arriving there at 23:00.
Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 80 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1V09 12:07 Nottingham-Cardiff
Drive from Nottingham to Derby whilst working 1V09 to Cardiff.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 6M04 06:45 Humber International Coal Terminal-Ratcliffe PS
Drive a Class 66 from Nottingham to Ratcliffe power station, before working through to Toton with the empty wagons.
Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 70 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 2A95 17:52 Derby-Nottingham
Drive a stopping service from Derby to Nottingham.
Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[Default] [DNL] The Robin Hood
Drive 44871 from Syston Junction to Nottingham with the ‘Robin Hood Railtour’.
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes