It's less than a week to go before the arrival of Just Trains' next Train Sim World route Add-on: West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle!
Train Sim World 5: West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle route Add-on will release on 26th November for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Epic Games Store, and Steam for £32.99/€39.99/$44.99
Just Trains have also published a Manual for the route and listed out answers to FAQs, both of which can be found on their website.
The Manual will also be available to download from the Steam Store page once released.
Ahead of release, we've condensed all the information so far into one place, including links to the Development Blog entries from Just Trains and highlights from our previous articles and Roadmaps over the past few months.
The Story So Far...
If you've been following our Train Sim World Roadmaps and Articles since August, you'll know that this route has been much anticipated following the release of the first Just Trains route: Blackpool Branches. Since then, we've teased and shown more details of the route and in our most recent Roadmap, went deep into the extensive timetable.
Highlights include:
- Dovetail Direct: The first Announcement of the route!
- August Roadmap (Part One): First Screenshots
- October Roadmap: Update on Development Blogs
- Coming Soon Article: Further Details of the Release
- November Roadmap: Timetable Deep Dive!
In addition, Matt, Jamie and the Just Trains team went through all the features of the Class 87 and the route during the preview livestream.
Just Trains Development Blogs
Just Trains have also been adding to their Development Blog over the last few months, giving more detail about some of the real world history of the route, along with information on updates to the rolling stock and the development of the new Class 87 loco that is included.
Read all the Development Blog entries.
- 21 August: First Screenshots
- 11 September: Station information
- 25 September: Timetable Overview
- 17 October: Morecambe Branch Line
- 23 October: Carlisle
- 06 November: Rolling Stock and Locomotives
- 13 November: Class 87
8th Generation Consoles
Due to the technical limitations of 8th Generation consoles, the level of some of the available features are reduced and a separate, reduced timetable will be available to players on those consoles:
- No Road Traffic throughout the route
- The timetable will consist only of Class 87 services. Other locomotives and units included in the Add-on (Class 47, 08, 101 DMU) will be available to operate in Free Roam.
- Additional service layers from other Train Sim World Add-ons will not be available.
Known Localisation Issues
We wanted to share a few known translation issues that will impact certain languages when playing the new West Coast Main Line: Preston – Carlisle line from release. We weren’t able to correct these in time for the launch and will look to fold these into an update shortly afterwards to help avoid as much confusion for those impacted as possible. This refers to French, German, Chinese and Russian translations, please see the full details below:
- Training module voiceover subtitles for French/German languages are currently in English instead of the respective set language.
- The route name “West Coast Main Line: Preston – Carlisle” is not consistently translated for Chinese and Russian players in-game, which may cause some confusion selecting the route, or finding it via Route Hopping menus.
- Some buttons on the Class 87 have English-only text across all languages during the Introduction, and whilst they aren’t needed to complete the tutorial, this may cause some confusion. The buttons this impacts are: Bardic Lamp Front and Tail Lamp Rear
- For French players, both the ‘WCML: Preston - Carlisle Introduction’ and ‘Class 87 Introduction’ have a single voiceover line in English instead of in French.
We’ll let you know once we’re able to address these translation issues in a post-launch update, and we look forward to seeing all the community screenshots once it releases next week!
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