Buy Trainz Plus DLC - Cornish Mainline and Branches PC key

Trainz Plus DLC - Cornish Mainline and Branches adds a route running from Truro to Penzance, with branch lines to Falmouth (The Maritime Route), Helston, Hayle Wharves and St Ives. It includes new track and scenery, along with nine new sessions.

The Cornish railway

The Cornish Main Line began as two separate railways: the West Cornwall Railway between Truro and Penzance, which opened in 1852, and the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a separate station in Truro, which opened in 1859. The financially struggling West Cornwall Railway was sold to the more powerful Associated Companies, dominated by the Great Western Railway, and its line was converted to broad gauge. Through goods trains began running in 1866, followed by passenger trains in 1867. The Associated Companies later merged into the Great Western Railway, which converted all its broad-gauge track to standard gauge in 1892.

The Great Western Railway carried holidaymakers to Cornwall’s resorts, served by numerous branches from the main line. Its steep gradients made busy periods difficult, particularly for goods trains. The line also carried Cornish vegetables, including broccoli and cauliflower, as well as cut flowers from the Scilly Isles. Many branches closed in the second half of the twentieth century, while the Looe, Newquay, Falmouth and St Ives branches remain in operation, carrying basic local passenger traffic in winter and more holidaymakers in summer.