Take a trip to see the Blackpool illuminations with Train Sim World 4’s first route Add-on | TheXboxHub

At some point in time Dovetail Games will have enough tracks and railways to allow us the chance to traverse the entire globe. For now though, we’ll just have to head to the bright lights of Blackpool with the first route add-on for Train Sim World 4. 

Ever since the very first Train Sim World, Dovetail Games have been building out the track roster on a very regular basis. That continued through Train Sim World 2 and Train Sim World 3. It’s continuing with Train Sim World 4 too. This time we find access to the Blackpool Branches: Preston – Blackpool & Ormskirk route add-on. 

Blackpool lights up

Available right now to add into your Train Sim World 4 game on Xbox, PlayStation or PC, the Blackpool Branches: Preston – Blackpool & Ormskirk DLC has been put together by Dovetail and their Partner Programme Developer, Just trains. 

Covering the rails of West Lancashire around the year 1986, it features a network of branch lines that take us through Preston ro Ormskirk, along the former Burn Naze line. You’ll find that both Blackpool North and Blackpool South stations feature, ensuring that you can take in the most notable of landmarks, including that of the illuminated Blackpool Tower and an animated Pleasure Beach rollercoaster.

Matt Peddlesden – Executive Producer of Train Sim World: “Back to the 80s, my favourite era, to drive my favourite train, the Pacer – I’m in heaven! Blackpool Branches brilliantly captures the real essence of rail operations back in the halcyon days of British Rail blue in the UK across both branch and main line operations.”

Purchase the pack and you’ll get the chance to jump into the cab of the whimsical Class 142 Pacer. These utilitarian ‘buses on rails’ were derived from Leyland buses and initially intended to be a temporary measure to replace older trains across the network. Billed as “the train that just won’t go away” and defined by jittery performance and breezy folding leaf doors, their ‘temporary’ services lasted from 1984 right through until 2021. In that time they took to the rails across Britain, running from Carlisle and Dumfries in the north, to Devon and Cornwall in the south as well as Wales and of course the northwest of England, including Blackpool.

New scenarios

Included in the new DLC offering are a series of Scenarios to play through, collectibles to find and an accurate and varied timetable to operate form this route Add-on. It goes without saying that you’ll need the base game of Train Sim World 4 to play.

Also included are the Class 47 and Class 08 locomotives which themselves are perennial fan favourites of the British railway network. The route also makes use of all the new features from Train Sim World 4, including Free Roam, Photo Mode and Volumetric Fog.

Longtime fans of Train Sim World can also make use of more trains and locomotives around Blackpool if they own previous British routes from the extensive back catalogue, including steam trains from the previously released Spirit of Steam route and a host of other BR blue diesel locomotives.

Add into Train Sim World 4 now

Pick up the Train Sim World 4: Blackpool Branches: Preston – Blackpool & Ormskirk route Add-on now. It’s on the Xbox Store for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

You’ll also find it on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. 

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Train Sim World 4: Blackpool Branches: Preston – Blackpool & Ormskirk Description

The 1980s beckon and bumpy rides abound in Britain’s longest-serving “stop gap”, the Class 142 in Blackpool Branches: Preston – Blackpool & Ormskirk. Designed as a cheap replacement for heritage DMUs, the “Pacer” would go on to serve regional networks for over 3 decades. Return to the days when the Pacer was brand new on local services in Lancashire.

Authentic express services await, headed by the workhorse Class 47, offering a smoother journey for those travelling between the West Coast Main Line and Blackpool. Put traction motors to the test on freight duty too, working heavy tanker trains up the partially disused Burn Naze branch line.

Packed with detail throughout, including disused stations, signalboxes with interiors, and lineside infrastructure, Just Trains’ Blackpool Branches captures the heart and nostalgia of the British Rail era, ready to be explored in Train Sim World 4.

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