THIS VERSION OF THE DERBY-NOTTINGHAM-LEICESTER ROUTE IS FOR TRAIN SIMULATOR USERS WHO DO NOT HAVE JUST TRAINS' MIDLAND MAIN LINE: SHEFFIELD-DERBY ROUTE INSTALLED.
This 40-mile Just Trains route covers the Derby-Nottingham-Leicester section of the Midland Main Line, running between Derby in the north and Leicester in the south. Nottingham is located to the east of the main line and trains need to come off the main line to travel through its impressive station and then come back onto the main line to run south.
The route features numerous custom objects, from humble station furniture to 12 highly detailed and accurately modelled stations. Among the unique structures and buildings along the route is the unique Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, which has its own section of railway to drive.
29 Standard scenarios are included; some require additional payware add-ons to run correctly and others only require default Train Simulator stock.
If you'd like to take a look at the Route Guide, you can download it here!
12 STATIONS
Derby
Spondon
Long Eaton
Attenborough
Beeston
Nottingham
East Midlands Parkway
Loughborough
Barrow-upon-Soar
Sileby
Syston
Leicester
FEATURES TO LOOK OUT FOR ON THE ROUTE
Numerous landmark buildings and other features of interest have been modelled along the length of the route – these are some of them, listed in the order you’d see them when driving south from just north of Derby:
Breadsall Junction
Breadsall bridge
St. Mary’s bridge
Underpass and Derby NHS offices
Derby bus depot
Chaddesden Yard
Pride Parkway bridge
Health club – Derby
John Ellis House
Derby College
Offices – Derby
Hotel – Derby
London Road bridge
Derby Power Signal Box
Etches Park Depot
Derby Rail Technical Centre (RTC)
Litchurch Lane Works
Pride Park stadium
A6005 road bridge
M1 motorway bridge
Erewash canal bridge
Sheet Stores Junction
After Long Eaton station the line divides, going south towards Leicester, north-west to Toton TMD and north-east to Nottingham.
The line to the north-west:
Tesco superstore
Sainsbury’s superstore
Toton TMD
The line to the north-east:
Disused Cemex loader
Boots warehouses
Beeston Yard
HMRC buildings
Nottingham Justice Centre
Eastcroft Depot
The line to the south:
Cranfleet Canal bridges
River Trent bridges
Redhill tunnel portals
Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
Site of Hathern station
Brush works (Wabtec Corporation)
Site of Great Central Railway new bridge
Barrow-upon-Soar
Mountsorrel Sidings aggregate loader
Gypsum works
Syston junction
Pukka Pies site
Vulcan House
Charnwood School
Leicester Power Signal Box
Leicester Depot
Moat Community College
SCENARIOS
29 Standard scenarios are included.
Some of the scenarios only require the default Train Simulator stock (these are prefixed with [Default]) and some require additional payware content.
Standard scenarios requiring additional payware stock
[DNL] (1995): 1F62 St Pancras-Derby
Drive 31407+31459, deputising for the booked Class 47 on 1F62 17:20 St Pancras to Derby on 24 February 1995. You will be in control from Leicester. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[DNL] 1D07 07:04 St Pancras-Nottingham
Drive an HST from Leicester to Nottingham on a hazy morning in June 2019. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] 2L77 16:30 Leicester-Lincoln
Drive a Class 156 from Leicester to Nottingham on a wet evening in February 2019. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 5L10 Leicester-Loughborough / 2L10 Loughborough-Leicester
Drive 156473 on an empty coaching stock move to from Leicester to Loughborough, then return to Leicester with the 06:59 stopping service. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard
Drive 66041 on 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard stone empties on 21 August 2018. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 65 minutes
[DNL] 1B28 09:45 Nottingham - 11:24 St Pancras International
Take 1B28 09:45 Nottingham to St Pancras as far as Leicester. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] The Chaddesden Tripper
Prepare 37710 at Toton Depot and then work 6T18 Toton to Chaddesden departmental trip in 2002. Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 60 minutes
[DNL] 5B41 Derby-Nottingham / 1D21 Nottingham-St Pancras
Drive a Class 222 on 5B41 Derby-Nottingham before working 1D21 through to Leicester in July 2019. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 75 minutes
[DNL] 1C67 17:00 Sheffield-St Pancras
Drive a Class 222 from Derby to Leicester whilst working 1C67 17:00 Sheffield to London St Pancras in June 2019. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] (2007): 6E90 10:34 Mountsorrel-Doncaster
Drive 66708 on a loaded ballast working from Mountsorrel to Doncaster as far as Nottingham in the summer of 2007. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes
[DNL] 1M84 18:45 Cardiff-Nottingham / 5M84 Nottingham-Leicester
Drive a CrossCountry Class 170 from Derby to Nottingham before taking the empty train to Leicester, arriving there at 23:00. Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 80 minutes
[DNL] The New Measurement Train
Drive the New Measurement Train (HST) from Leicester to Derby Etches Park in 2007. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 50 minutes
[DNL] 1V09 12:07 Nottingham-Cardiff
Drive a Class 170 from Nottingham to Derby whilst working 1V09 to Cardiff in May 2019. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 30 minutes
[DNL] 6M04 06:45 Humber International Coal Terminal-Ratcliffe PS
Drive 66165 from Nottingham to Ratcliffe power station before working through to Toton with the empty wagons in February 2018. Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 70 minutes
[DNL] 2A95 17:52 Derby-Nottingham
Drive 158856 from Derby to Nottingham on a stopping service in April 2018. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[DNL] The Robin Hood
Drive 46115 'Scots Guardsman' from Syston Junction to Nottingham with the ‘Robin Hood Railtour’. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes
Standard scenarios using default Train Simulator stock
[Default] [DNL] (1995): 1F62 St Pancras-Derby
Drive a Class 47 on 1F62 17:20 St Pancras to Derby in 1995. You will be in control from Leicester. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1D07 07:04 St Pancras-Nottingham
Drive an HST from Leicester to Nottingham on a hazy morning. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 2L77 16:30 Leicester-Lincoln
Drive from Leicester to Nottingham on a wet evening in February 2019. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 5L10 Leicester-Loughborough / 2L10 Loughborough-Leicester
Drive 156473 on an empty coaching stock move to from Leicester to Loughborough, then return to Leicester with the 06:59 stopping service. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 60 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard
Drive 6D31 Radlett-Toton North Yard from Leicester. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 65 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1B28 09:45 Nottingham – 11:24 St Pancras International
Take 1B28 09:45 Nottingham to St Pancras as far as Leicester. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] 5B41 Derby-Nottingham / 1B41 Nottingham-St Pancras
Drive 5B41 Derby-Nottingham before working 1B41 through to Leicester in July 2019. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 75 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1C67 17:00 Sheffield-St Pancras
Drive from Derby to Leicester whilst working 1C67 17:00 Sheffield to London St Pancras in June 2019. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1M84 18:45 Cardiff-Nottingham / 5M84 Nottingham-Leicester
Drive 1M84 from Derby to Nottingham before taking the empty train to Leicester, arriving there at 23:00. Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 80 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 1V09 12:07 Nottingham-Cardiff
Drive from Nottingham to Derby whilst working 1V09 to Cardiff. Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 30 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 6M04 06:45 Humber International Coal Terminal-Ratcliffe PS
Drive a Class 66 from Nottingham to Ratcliffe power station, before working through to Toton with the empty wagons. Difficulty: Hard
Duration: 70 minutes
[Default] [DNL] 2A95 17:52 Derby-Nottingham
Drive a stopping service from Derby to Nottingham. Difficulty: Easy
Duration: 35 minutes
[Default] [DNL] The Robin Hood
Drive 44871 from Syston Junction to Nottingham with the ‘Robin Hood Railtour’. Difficulty: Medium Duration: 45 minutes