Buy Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: Netherfield: Nottingham Network Route Add-On PC key

Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: Netherfield: Nottingham Network Route Add-On adds a 40-mile route through the Nottingham area, set in post-war Britain between 1948 and 1965. You operate steam-era passenger and freight services across a network shaped by the region’s coal industry.

The Nottingham network

Freight operations around Nottingham began in 1850, when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston & East Junction Railway created an east-west link to Grantham. At Colwick, near Netherfield and the line’s original western end, sidings let goods travel by horse and cart into Nottingham because the Midland Railway refused to allow freight through its station.

The Midland Railway came to dominate Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coal traffic. After the Great Northern Railway took over the Ambergate line, it sought to carry its own coal, but the Midland raised the cost of running rights. The GNR instead built its own infrastructure, extending the line from Colwick into Nottingham through London Road station and connecting it to collieries near Daybrook and the Derbyshire coalfields. Colwick’s first GNR shed was completed by 1875, and coal traffic drove the expansion of sidings, depots and collieries.

The Great Central Railway also competed in the coal trade, running between Annesley and Woodford Halse up to 40 times a day. For its London Extension, it worked with the GNR to build Nottingham Victoria, a largely underground station with four signal boxes, two turntables and passing loops around every platform. As coal traffic declined and the British railway network was streamlined, many local lines fell silent and Nottinghamshire’s former operations passed into history.

Steam locomotives

The add-on includes five locomotives:

• Stanier Class 8F
• Fowler Class 4F
• Robinson Class O4
• Thompson Class B1
• Sir Nigel Gresley’s V2

Scenarios

Eight career scenarios challenge you with route operations:

• Football Special
• Iron Ore Hoppers to Colwick
• Coal to Colwick
• Annesley Dido
• Windcutter Empties to Annesley
• Tunnel Closure Diversion
• Gasworks Empties to Linby
• Coal Empties from Colwick to Hucknall

Three Railfan Mode scenarios are also included: Bulwell Common, Hucknall Central and Nottingham Victoria. The route is compatible with Quick Drive, and its rolling stock ranges from freight wagons to coaches for period coal, cattle and milk operations.