Buy Trainz Plus DLC - Potteries Loop Line PC key

Trainz Plus DLC - Potteries Loop Line adds a 10-mile railway route set in the UK in the 1930s. Its rows of terraced houses, factories and slag heaps frame a network built around working industries, passenger services and goods traffic.

Industries and stations

The route includes 14 interactive stations for intensive, sharply timed passenger trains, along with industries that need regular supplies and the removal of their products:

• Iron and steel works: an integrated complex with 3 sets of coke ovens, 3 blast furnaces, a slag tip, steel plant, rolling mill, by-products and fertiliser plant. Its animated facilities require raw materials and the removal of finished products.
• Collieries: 6 sites with working winding gear, gravity loading at the colliery screens and aerial ropeways that carry waste stone to the tips.
• Brick works and tileries: 3 sites with working clay pits, pressing sheds, two types of kiln and dispatch sheds, connected by narrow- and/or standard-gauge railways.
• Coke ovens and gas works: one stand-alone working coke oven battery and one gas works, supplied with coal and requiring coke removal.
• Iron foundries: 4 foundries that use pig iron, coke and steel scrap to produce castings. One connects directly to rail; drivable lorries serve the others through road-to-rail transfers.
• Motive power depot: facilities for ash handling, coaling, watering and turning.
• Central goods depot: a large depot for a range of incoming and outgoing commodities.

Signal box operations

The Signal Box rule lets you take the role of a signalman at one of several signal boxes. You accept, route and forward trains using bell signals, simulating signal box work before the introduction of power boxes.

Trains and sessions

The package includes 7 types of main-line steam locomotive and 7 industrial types, including 2 narrow-gauge diesels. Rolling stock includes main-line and local passenger carriages, 6 types of goods van, 5 tankers, 2 flat wagons, 13 types of seven-plank wagon, brake vans, 3 special steelworks wagons, 3 types of narrow-gauge wagon and a ropeway skip.

There are 35 sessions: 11 use the Signal Box rule, while the other 24 cover different parts of the route. Most involve servicing the industries or exploring the private and industrial lines that spread through the Potteries up to the 1960s.

Updated route

The route was originally released for Trainz Simulator 12 in 2014 and remains largely faithful to that version. This release updates the content for compatibility with later Trainz releases and restores its intended functionality.