Scottish Central Plus

Route Name = Scottish Central Plus



Route Author = Geoff Holt & Don Hinton & Kerr McIntosh

Route Location = Scotland

Route Mileage = 400 miles

Route Era = 1950s to late 1960s

Route Source = from UKTS CD ordering (current cost is £4.80 which includes one month’s premium UKTS membership) here.

Additional files required to be installed = None.

Route Description =
An MSTS Mini Route supplied on DVD coming complete with a number of activities and relevant stock for those activities. Additional activities and relevant stock are available from UKTS.

“The original route was built by Kerr McIntosh in 2003, and was intended to be set in the 1990s and included the Forth and Tay Bridges, but was never fully finished.
This Plus version has doubled the mileage to 400, and was amended as necessary to take it back nearer to the above era.
Starting at Dunbar in the south which is on the East Coast Main Line, the route extends to approx 1 mile just north of Dundee (which was part of Kerr's original Scottish Central).
The branch from North Berwick joins the main line just south of Drem. The ECML then continues to Edinburgh Waverley Station, which was in the original route and continues north, through Haymarket. From here, the main line continues over the Forth Bridge on to Inverkeithing, where the line then splits to form the Fife Circle. The Fife Circle follows the coast through Burnt Island and Kirkcaldy as far as Thornton Junction, where it joins up again with the inland route from Inverkeithing, which runs through Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath, to Thornton Junction.
It also includes Edinburgh Princes St station, Glasgow Central station (incorporating a separate mini Glasgow tram route) & Glasgow Queen St station. Also the addition of Stirling & Perth makes a direct link from Glasgow to Dundee. Plus alternative routes from Dundee via Perth to Ladybank, joining the East Coast main line to Edinburgh.
Included in this large route there are more than fifty different industries, which include Collieries, Brickworks, Breweries, Foundries, Quarries, Power Stations and Dockyards which include both Rosyth Naval Dockyard and Grangemouth. Most of these industries have quite large yards, allowing for various shunting activities to be made.”