London Underground Train Simulator
Torie Crivello
London UndergroundThe iconic 'Roundel' logo of the UndergroundThe famous 'Tube Map', depicting the Underground and various other TfL and National Rail services.CountiesLondon, Buckinghamshire, Essex, HertfordshirePredecessorsLondon Transport, NSE (Waterloo & City)Track gauge4ft 8.5inTrack length250 milesRoutesBakerloo Line
Great Western Express (Static AI at Ealing Only)The London Underground is a subway system that is owned by TFL (Transport for London) and operates in and around Greater London. The Bakerloo Line is one of the system's lines and the only represented in Train Sim World, originally featuring as a core route for Train Sim World 2, before becoming a separate DLC for Train Sim World 3.
The Underground in reality has 11 lines, with the original Metropolitan Line opening in 1863, and it's most recent extension opening in 2021, this network has continuously grown and served London for 160 years. It also connects many of London's main railway termini, such as St Pancras, Paddington and London Victoria.
Great Western Express - Despite focusing on Great Western Railway's operations to Reading, two (or four, if you count platforms at National Rail stations) Underground Stations are modelled. At Paddington, the Hammersmith and City Line and Circle Line both run between London Paddington Station and Westbourne Park, with Royal Oak sitting in between them. This was also TSW's first ever feature of 4th Rail, or any DC system for that matter, however this track lies empty in-game. Further down the line, at Ealing Broadway, we meet the Central Line and District Line. Whilst not prototypical, the Bakerloo Line 1972 stock layers here as a static train, which does not move at all.
Bakerloo Line - Running from Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone, this '72 Stock powered route is TSW's first (and only so far) underground route. Running for 14 miles, this route also (with it's new timetable) features a variety of layers of trains in the various yards next to the route, as well as freight trains on the WCML beside it.
The third part of the popular 'World of Subways' series puts you in the driver's cab on the iconic Circle Line of the London Underground. Authorised by an act of Parliament in 1853, the Circle Line became the world's first underground railway and the genesis of the entire London Underground network.
With 35 beautifully recreated stations and both above and below ground sections, this is an opportunity to take control of the world famous "C Stock" tube trains as you follow a detailed timetable and a myriad of custom missions.
Visit such landmark destinations as Baker Street - home of Sherlock Holmes, Euston and Victoria stations, pass under Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament at Westminster and drop off passengers at the fashionable High Street Kensington!
With over 74 million journeys every year, the Circle Line provides the ultimate subway experience. See the light at the end of the tunnel, with one of the most immersive and realistic rail simulations ever created!
Lastly, but never least, is the Bakerloo line from the famous London Underground. This was the one addition in the press conference that seemed to have everyone hugely excited. We were shown some gameplay of the route, from underground to the overground stations on the Bakerloo line. All the details of the train stock can be seen here from the intricate driver cabins and controls to the famous patterns on the seat coverings. The stations themselves have been researched heavily by the development team, even down to the art deco tiling that is found in some of the stations on the route.
The main worry about the addition of Train Sim World 2 is that there will be many gamers who have previously built up a huge collection of content with the first game. You should fear not though, as Dovetail have confirmed that old tracks will be able to be imported directly into the new game, with a feature they are calling the Preserved Collection. With the huge number of DLC packs to arrive in the original Train Sim World, this is a good call that should allow many to upgrade to TSW2 without worry.
World of Subways is our series of the most interesting Subway and Underground routes of the world for the PC. After the releases of New York and Berlin we are now proud to introduce Vol.3 - London Underground. This simulation covers the entire Circle Line in its current operational service which includes the new section to Hammersmith. This line offers a length of 27km with 35 stations, many hours of fun and interesting missions.
The Circle Line is an underground service of the London Underground circling the center of London. It was first described as such in 1949 and already appeared on the 1947 Underground Map. It had not been built as a separate line, but was merged from different sections of the Metropolitan Line and the District Line. Only two short sections of this line are solely used by the Circle line. These sections are the connecting curves between the stations of High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road and between Aldgate and Tower Hill.
Physics:
The physics have been developed based on real values, such as those used in training simulators. The driving and braking characteristics of the trains are reproduced faithfully and reflect the feeling to actually controlling a train of the London Underground.
Graphics:
Compared to the first two products in this series, Vol. 3 uses a new 3D engine. The simulator is now based on the Vision Engine Trinigy, which made it possible to substantially improve lighting and 3D effects. At the same time the stability and performance of the 3D engine has been improved.
Notes: We provide a serial number with the purchase of this download version. Afterwards, you need to download this add-on via STEAM and activate it. Further information can be found in the installation instruction.
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The tube station is probably the highlight for any visitor and in addition to looking like a tube station, it also behaves a bit like one. When a train is due to arrive, although no physical train appears, the platform rumbles, speakers drown out conversations and there is even a fan in the corner blowing to simulate the wind blast that heralds the arrival of the train.
One floor down is the BIG BOYS TOY writ large, as there is a fully functioning training simulator for the forthcoming S-Stock trains that will be appearing on the Metropolitan Line next year (and Circle/District later on)
This is a fully functioning model railway that was only recently built to replace an older model based in White City many years ago. That older model used signalling systems that were so close to the live kit, that sometimes an engineer would run in and nick a component to fix a broken signal at White City!
In addition to being configured with a selection of more modern signalling systems as used on the London Underground, they also have a lovingly recreated old lever based signal network which is used to show staff how things worked in the past.
The true purpose of the model train set though is to train staff on dealing with problems, and a simple flick of a switch can simulate any sort of network failure you care to imagine. It was here that we leant why it can sometimes take ages to get trains out of tunnels when things go wrong.
In ye olde days (aka, 2008) the station staff at the previous station would have to manually check any points junctions were safe, but then walk down to the stranded train and hand over a paper form granting authority for the driver to drive backwards down a tunnel.
Today they can grant authority over a secure radio link, but that only became possible 18 months ago. Indeed it does seem that the Evening Standard headlines of people being stuck in tunnels for an hour or more have dried up since this was introduced.
Overall, a fascinating visit and I am deeply grateful to both the staff at London Underground for taking us around (and letting us take photos!) and also to the IET for organising another excellent event.
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Cindy B I think he meant that 5pm was a good example as it would be the time when most delay could be caused to the Tube system, being that it would be in the rush hour. Could have easily have put 8.30am.
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On what you said, I might check London out again. Does the IET let people (like me, who is disabled, for example) have fun and learn new things too at that West Ashfield Road Station? If so, please email me back. I have a unique and rare Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
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