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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
Frequently Bought Together
Product Features
- 1970 rendition of lines south of the Thames
- Lots of branch and local lines for activities
- High speed stretch of South East mainline
- Selhurst and Hither Green Depots
- 1970 era stock
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
1970 rendition of lines south of the Thames, from Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Blackfriars / Holborn Viaduct (when it was a terminus) and London Bridge, South East to Tonbridge and down the South Central to Norwood Junction, Selhurst, East Croydon (before rebuilding), Oxted and the 'Cuckoo line' across to Tonbridge. Lots of branch and local lines for activities, plus high speed stretch of South East mainline. Includes Selhurst and Hither Green Depots and 1970 era stock.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
This is a lovely route set in the 70s, with lots and lots of varied track, from dense routes in the city to rural and branch lines.
The network is extensive, including Charing Cross, Cannon Street and London bridge to Crystal Palace, Redhill, Caterham, Oxted - East Grinstead / Uckfield, Bromley North, Orpington - Tonbridge - Tunbridge Wells, and Redhill to Tonbridge. I've had plenty of dips into this route and still haven't seen a fraction of the total track.
The CD has lots of lovely trains to drive, all with wonderful sounds and cabviews. For freight activities there's lovely Class 33 Diesel and Class 71 Electric Locos. There's an absolutely vast selection of passenger trains - presumably must include everything that you could have seen on these services during the seventies!
The fifteen activites supplied show off different aspects of the route very well, and give ample opportunity to try out the different trains.
The scenery is lovely, if other commercial routes in the SE have left you a bit disappointed by being a bit sparse, this one won't.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
If anyone is interested in the southeast railways, then it does not come better than this. It is set in the 70s era so all stock is from the 70s. So if you want to drive any modern stock you have to edit the activities to include them. I found this to be the best addon I have ever seen, landscape is varied and not flat. The rails look very realistic. You can go out of London and into Kent or go into London from Kent. Driving through London is amazing with all the buildings they have reproduced. If you want anymore information then look at the "Making Tracks" website.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
For anyone who has lived in the southeast of london and travelled on the old 1970's rollingstock this game is a must. This game is a dream come true as this region has been ignored until now. This is a fantastic sim that has a level of detail second to non. It has a well animated collection of 1970's trains from class 71 & 33 diesels to the electric class 215/211 EPB suburban units. The background graphics are very realistic and it lets you enter a now forgotten railway era. The only downside is that you will need the lastest high power graphics card. And a PC that is able to generate the graphics so an old 386 WON'T run this sim add-on !. I have since got a new duo core pentium computer so it's got massive power in reserve. However with this programme loaded the trains will still not move on the animation !. So I suspect that there is a serious clitch in this add-on so think very carefully before you buy !!.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Disapointed ?
I was really looking forward to trying this route, even though my standard MSTS routes work fine, this is a disappointment. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by Sturmey Archer
Great add on.
This was one of the first add ons Making Tracks created. But just like their later add on [Great Eastern] the detail is superb. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2009 by K. Hardy
Oh, What a shame!
I bought this for my father for Christmas and to be honest have spent more time on it than he has. Let me start by saying that the trains themselves are great; I particularly like... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by I. Skinner
Challenging Routes
A nice blast from the past. The rolling stock is excellent, the routes varied and all with their own challenges and the graphics are good. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2008 by Mr. Ian W. Ogilvie
A train driver writes
Having driven the routes & stock over the past 25 years, (I'm an ex-Tonbridge driver) I was blown away by the realism of this sim. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2008 by Tonbridge Driver
More bugs than the amazon jungle DO NOT BUY
This add-on for Microsoft Train Simulator is the worst available. Most of the time when you install it onto MSTS the whole simulator (yes, not just the route on its own, but the... Read more
Published on 16 May 2008 by O. M. Aszkenasy
Worst one yet!
I bought this game hoping for something fantastic. Instead of being fantastic, it not only doesnt work but has crashed my whole Microsoft train simulator! Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2008 by M. J. Druce
BRILLIANT...
This add-on is quite simply BRILLIANT. It features everything that I remember fron the route back in the day. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2007 by FDM Bwoy
Software at its poorest
London & South East sounded an interesting prospect so it was purchased and loaded onto a modern, powerful PC. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2006 by Xpress
Accurate add-on simulation
This is an impressive add-on. It faithfully recreates the routes, stock and atmosphere of the 1970s. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2006 by Andrew Page
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