Thames-Mersey

Route Name = Thames-Mersey





Route Author = David Alan Corfield

Route Location = London to North West England.

Route Mileage = TBC

Route Era = Steam 1950s/Electric 1960s

Route Source = On DVD from UKTrainSim CD Ordering (current cost is £4.80 which includes one month’s premium UKTS membership) also as a download The Thames Mersey route from the UKTS file library.

Additional files required to be installed = None specified in the readme but the use of Train Store is recommended, MSTSBin will also be required for some of the downloaded stock and activities

Route Description =
A route for MSTS available for download or on DVD from CD ordering, DVD version comes complete with stock and activities plus all the required files needed to run the route..

This route portrays the west coast mainline from London Euston to Liverpool Lime street, Manchester Piccadilly and Warrington Bank quay, plus other lines in and around Manchester and Liverpool.

There is an era changer via two bat files in the route folder to change between the steam era and the electric era, the track layout is exactly the same for both eras.

The steam era is as it was in the 1950s before electrification, the track has wooden sleepers, the electric era (1960s onwards) has overhead wires and gantries added, track texture is changed to concrete and AWS has been added.

The DVD version comes complete with stock and activities, Patches for the DVD version plus stock and activities for the download version are available from the UKTrainSim file library.