Buy Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: BR Class 24 Loco Add-On PC key

Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: BR Class 24 Loco Add-On adds the BR Class 24 diesel locomotive, BR Mk1 coaches and 40T YGH ‘Sealion’ ballast wagons to Train Simulator. The locomotive is recreated as it operated across the UK for British Railways in the 1960s, in corporate blue/grey livery.

The BR Class 24

The Class 24 was a Sulzer Type 2 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive, built from 1958 to 1961 as part of the British Rail Modernisation Plan. It was the first diesel locomotive built at BR’s Darlington Works, and was also built at the Derby and Crewe works. Its standardised components included a Sulzer 6LDA28 diesel engine and a 735Kw British Thomson-Houston (BTH) electric transmission. Together they produced 1,160hp, giving the locomotive a top speed of 75mph (120km/h).

Class 24s initially hauled passenger and freight services around Derby and Crewe before working across the British Rail network. Fifteen of the first 20 locomotives served on the Southern Region while the Kent Coast electrification scheme was delayed. They also ran in the Eastern Region, London Midland Region, Wales and Lancashire. Class 24s took over the Condor freight service from London to Glasgow, replacing Class 28s, and provided the basis for the later Class 25 model.

D5051 was the first Class 24 withdrawn, in November 1967. By 1979, all but three had been withdrawn, and 14 were scrapped before receiving a TOPS number. The last locomotive, 24081, was withdrawn in October 1980. Four survive in preservation: D5032 and D5061 at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, D5054 at the East Lancashire Railway, and 24081 at the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway.

Scenarios and driving

The locomotive is compatible with Quick Drive, so you can drive it on any Quick Drive-enabled Train Simulator route. The add-on also includes three scenarios for the Weardale & Teesdale Network route, which is required to play them:

• Mickleton to Darlington
• Durham to Darlington
• Shildon to Brandon