Train Simulator: Riviera Line in the Fifties Exeter - Kingswear Route (DLC) DLC STEAM digital

Incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1835, the origins of the Great Western Railway lay with merchants from Bristol who felt threatened by the growing strength of Liverpool as a major trading port through its development of a railway connection to London. In order to maintain the importance of their own port, a railway to the west was most definitely needed! Infamous for its use of the alternative ‘Broad Gauge’ 7ft infrastructure, the GWR was happy to wage war with other developing railway companies throughout the remainder of the 1900s, as lines extended across much of the country using mostly ‘Standard Gauge’ 4ft 8½in. Slowly though ‘Mixed Gauge’ began to eat its way south into GWR territory as the arrangements for transshipment from one mode to the other for onward travel became a major bugbear. Following further action from Parliament, the continuation of the Broad Gauge was a lost cause. However, the required space for operating a Broad Gauge railway meant that on conversion to Standard Gauge, available land was extremely generous. Something which the GWR would not always learn to take advantage of as we shall see from one particular line on the south coast. Amongst those productions would come some of the most iconic locomotives of the day. The GWR being what it was, which some would claim as the birth of modern marketing techniques, Collett was responsible for the powerfully named Castle, Hall, Pannier, Grange, and ultimate of them all, King classes. All being of the 4-6-0 type with the exception of the Pannier, the locomotives would all be ideal express operators for the GWR. Each one of these designs carrying appropriate names both for themselves and the services they hauled. This was indeed the pinnacle of steam locomotive development at the GWR. For it was also under the reign of Charles Collett that diesel power would first appear, and henceforth the landscape of railway traction would change forever. Transfer this world to the realms of Train Simulator and you can see we have the setting for a most amazing experience with the pressures of squeezing mainline traffic onto branch line facilities; from shunting coaching stock to hauling holiday expresses and from managing locomotives to maintaining the timetable. Train Simulator: Riviera Line in the Fifties Exeter - Kingswear Route (DLC) DLC STEAM digital - Play-Asia.com Included Locomotives & Rolling Stock: - GWR 4073 Class (Castle Class) in Brunswick Green, Wartime and Weathered Liveries - GWR 4073 Class (Castle Class) Double Chimney Variant in Brunswick Green Livery - GWR 5700 Class (Pannier Tank) in Brunswick Green, Clean and Weathered Liveries - GWR 6000 Class (King Class) in Express Blue and Brunswick Green Livery - GWR 6800 Class (Grange Class) in Brunswick Green, Clean and Weathered Liveries - GWR 6959 Class (Modified Hall Class) in Brunswick Green, Clean and Weathered Liveries - Hawksworth Centenary Coaches in Blood & Custard Livery - GWR Collett Excursion Coaches in Blood & Custard and Maroon Liveries - BR Mk1 Coaches in Chocolate & Cream Livery - GWR 3, 5, and 7 Plank Wagons, Standard Vans, Fish Vans, Milk Tanks, Siphon G Wagons, and 20T GWR TOAD Brake Van The Riviera Line in the Fifties Route Add-on includes fifteen career scenarios: - [Castle] Introduction to the Castle - [Pannier] Good run to Goodrington - [Pannier] Climbing out of Kingswear - [Pannier] Saturday Shuffle - [Pannier] Saturday Puzzle - [Castle] Goodrington Gamble - [Castle] Exeter Endurance - [Castle] Running Half Full - [Castle] Running Half Empty - [Grange] Express Freight - [Grange] Extreme Freight - [Grange] Dawlish Sunrise - [Grange] Dawlish Storm - [Castle] Operation Torbay - [Castle] Torbay Troubles The Riviera Line in the Fifties Route Add-On also includes three Railfan Mode scenarios and two Quick Drive Scenarios: - [RailfanMode] Churston - [RailfanMode] Newton Abbot - [RailfanMode] Dawlish - EK QD Northbound - EK QD Southbound NOTE: This content requires the base game Train Simulator 2021 in order to play.