![]() ![]() Future plans may include adding OHLE down to Newbury and other improvements to the original route, I have already added gradient smoothing Pewsey to Exeter. 15 months later I hope you enjoy the drive to the West Country. ![]() I can’t say I found route building easy at the start, learning as you go never is but you just have to stick with it. I lost the first 4 to 5 weeks of work when I decided to use the new 64 bit editor but that turned out good as the first build was a standalone route but the second build Was an extension the Just Trains South Western Expressways starting at Pewsey working along to Reading. On YouTube I found a wealth of information on building routes so I started the build In early September 2018. After contacting Just Trains to ask if it was going to be added and looking/asking on the forums it became obvious the only way forward was to build it myself. That is when I found I could not drive the normal route to Devon via the Berks and Hants because of the missing 40 miles between Reading and Pewsey. It was much better than I had expected and the bug well and truly bit hard.Īs I spend 4 weeks holiday a year in Devon and make day trips by train to Teignmouth from Paddington I wanted to reproduce the trip on TS. I was told about Train Simulator back in June 2017 and after looking at a few YouTube videos I decided To give it a try. In the past 25 years I have built live steam locomotives to run at my local model engineering club track in both 5” and 71/4” gauge along with traction engines up to 1/3 scale. My interest in railways has been from a very early age and I still have and run a large OO layout in the loft. The SWE To Reading route is based in the mid 2010's shortly before electrification reached Reading,and features 40 miles of rolling British Countryside,beautifully detailed as it heads for Pewsey. This means that the long awaited opportunity to drive across a number of routes from Paddington to Penzance,via Newbury is finally possible! This new route by Martin Masterson adds the 40 mile section from Pewsey to Reading,onto the existing South Western Expressways Route. South Western Expressways to Reading V1.1
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