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First Class Simulation - East
Coast Express Part 1 (London to Peterborough)
34,99 CD-R Boxed
East
Coast Express (Part One) London to Peterborough,
developed by well-respected team EuropeanBahn, gives you the opportunity
to drive a selection of contemporary electric locomotives on one of the
UKs busiest railway lines.
  
  
The
route covered by this simulation runs from London, Kings Cross to
Peterborough, a distance of 80 miles.
With
this simulation you may travel north, through the suburbs of London and
on to Peterborough, travelling through the countryside of Hertfordshire.
The journey from London to Peterborough will run through 24 stations
such as Alexandra Palace, Potters Bar, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City,
Stevenage, Hitchin, Biggleswade, St Neots, and Huntingdon before
arriving at Peterborough.
Featuring 23 stations along the eighty miles of track from London Kings
Cross to Peterborough, rolling stock includes: the Class 91 locomotive
in both the original Inter-City and the current G.N.E.R. midnight blue
colour schemes. Also included are the Mk 4 BREL carriages and DVT in
both liveries; the Class 43 High Speed Train in both the original
Inter-City Swallow and G.N.E.R. colour schemes and including the
carriages used from the running sets for both locomotives. Local
services are provided by the Class 317 featuring the Network SouthEast
317 Class EMU.
Activities include: Driving a busy morning rush hour commuter service
from Kings Cross to Welwyn Garden City and keeping to a tight deadline;
taking a Class 43 HST from London to Peterborough on a sunny morning;
driving a 317 on a stopping service from Peterborough to London Kings
Cross.
East
Coast Express (Part One) London to Peterborough includes fifteen easy,
medium and difficult activities staged over a variety of seasons and
conditions which will challenge everyone from beginners to the seasoned
professional.
The
route represented in this simulation has its origins deep in the history
of the railway system in England and Scotland, stemming from the pre
grouping era with such companies as the Great Northern Railway , the
North Eastern Railway .and the Great Central Railway. In this era there
were in excess of 100 individual Companies operating railways in the UK,
a situation that applied until the mid1920s, when these were grouped in
to the four main operating Companies, the London ,Midland and Scottish (
LMS ) , the London and North Eastern ( LNER ), the Great Western ( GWR )
and the Southern ( SR ) railways.
This
was the heyday of the steam locomotive, with such examples as the LNER
Mallard , the holder of the World speed record for steam locomotives,
the GWR Castles and Kings , the LMS Coronation and Royal
Scot and the Southern Schools and Battle of Britain classes.
With
the advance of technology, and the adoption of electric traction by many
countries, proposals were put forward for the electrification of a
number of the main line routes in the UK. This simulation is concerned
with that route previously operated by the LNER, later by British Rail
and currently, after privatisation of the railways, by the Great North
Eastern Railway (GNER).
This
route covers the section of the GNER main line (The East Coast Mainline)
between London and Peterborough, and is now fully electrified, using the
25kV system adopted in the UK.
This simulation has been prepared with the full assistance and approval
of the GNER Company, and the authors wish to express their thanks to
GNER for the help received.
System Requirements
We
suggest that your PC should have the following:
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Minimum 1.5 GHz processor or faster
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256MB
of RAM (512MB for XP) or better
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A good
quality video card with 64MB (128MB preferred) of video RAM or better
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A
CD-ROM Drive and Windows Operating System 98/ME/2000/XP
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Microsoft Train Simulator
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A good
quality sound card (preferred NOT on-board) is also recommended
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