Train Simulator 2016 - Route Learning: Bristol to Cardiff (Class 150) 

A very nice video, Peter. The 150s are still a class act for clearness of the controls, especially when watching on a 15 inch screen. Many thanks. Roger Crick

I remember driving this route many years ago on an old text-based simulator called Simudrive! Always wondered what the real route looked like and now I know! How times have changed! Another great video, thanks!

Love your route learning videos, all very professionally carried out. Keep up the great work, thank you.

I have also noticed that the Western Mainlines is really laggy and I believe that it is because of the new JT trees. Really annoying because it is a good route otherwise. I prefer this route for the line from Bristol to Cardiff. Good video! It has inspired for me to buy this route :D

Just to let you know, in the Severn tunnel, the blue lights are markers for gradient changes, so you could have used those to judge grades

really enjoyed watching this. not sure if you know this already but those blue lights in the Severn tunnel are gradient marker boards. I believe the first light marks the end of the steep decent into the tunnel and the second one with 2 blue lights marks the start of the climb to get out. in the real world i think there is also be a set of blue lights on the tunnel wall to mark the measured/official half way point in the tunnel. all these are for freight trains to tell the driver to apply the power to start climbing to get out of the tunnel

Great video I am traveling on this route on Monday looking forward to it nice to see what the driver would see

Pilning now only has services to Bristol. The Cardiff bound Platform has been closed. So passengers for Pilning from Bristol must now catch the 1221 service to Cardiff Central and change at Severn Tunnel Junction.

Great vid! Been on class 150 today! 😜😝

brill vids mate really enjoy them.

I love ur route learning videos the best

You can see the fgw HST in the background and great video

THEY FORGOT TO ADD THE MASSIVE BRIDGE YOU GO UNDER AFTER GOING PAST THE SEVERN BEACH LINE!

the reason for the single bore tunnels near Bristol is because old freight trains couldn't make it up the hill towards Bristol, so the other line has less of a gradient

I think the destination board lists destinations where the 150 COULD be used on for the routes that were available at the time it was released. That's a bit of a roundabout way of saying it but that's the best I can put it. Also, the default 150 has a 2 tone horn as does the 156, but the high tone is B and the low is space I believe when it's often the other way round.

Great video. I think this is one of the better recent TS routes. Don't know if you've seen my comment on your Wherry Lines video. Anyway, look forward to watching the next video. 😊

Hi Pete, heard you saying "up slow". In the western region the slow lines are known as the "relief" and the fast is known as "main" Hope that helps :)

Another excellent video. I was wondering whether you are planning another question and answer video in the near future.

ptg rail thank you verry much

Great video i like that route

great video

I believe that the blue lights in the Severn tunnel show gradient changes.

The 95mph on the section between Newport and Cardiff is actually a 75, HST 95 board in real life so only Class 158-175s, 180s, 220/221s and HSTs would be allowed to travel at 95. It's also the second fastest stretch of track in Wales, bar the 7 mile 75/HST 95 stretch between Cardiff & Newport the only other section of track in Wales with a higher than 90mph limit is a 2 mile stretch of 90, HST 100 between Cardiff and Swansea through Pyle station.

Another great video. Perfectly explained as always. Please please can you make a Midland Mainline London to Bedford on a HST preferably or a Meridian. Thanks.

another good video :)

Great video as usual! I bought the route straight away when it was released. I must say that Bristol is absolutely terrible. Using stock American assets is just so lazy and wrong. I'm currently in the process of rebuilding Bristol with more British looking buildings. Also at Lawrence Hill there is a supermarket next to the station, but in the route it is warehouse! I had to add a supermarket myself. It really shows how different a route appears, when you know the real life counterpart.

Excellent video !!, Take my good I like. ;)

Good video

As you pass through the Severn tunnel you will see some blue lights. The single blue light indicates that the line has levelled off, whilst the double blue lights indicate the start of the uphill climb out of Severn Tunnel. Also do you plan to cover the new Marseille-Avignon LGV at some point and if so would you consider a guide to French 'Classic' line side signalling and in cab TVM430 signalling at some point as both are featured on that route and as DTG have signed an agreement with SNCF allowing them to use SNCF branding on TS products it seems likely that more French routes are in the offing.

really enjoying your videos. well done. would it be possible to see a video going from Cardiff through to Swansea, stopping at Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath and Swansea? that would be great if you could. many thanks.

i feel like a train company is going to use your videos as training videos

I know this is 2 years late but could you do the Glasgow Central to Newton/Neilston route using a class 320?

I know this is a long time after this video but how do i get this route?? I have the class 150 and south wales costal but cant find the scenario...

Great video as always, the only niggle I have personally is that it's a tad confusing when you keep saying speed limit in reference to the 150's max speed of 75mph on the faster stretches of the line, personally I think it would be better to say that 75mph is the speed restriction? So we would hear from you for example "the speed limit is 90mph but the speed restriction of the loco is 75mph" apart from that, a cracking little run!

Just started on Train Simulations. First I purchased Trainz Driver 2016, now by the looks of what I have seen here on youtube Train Simulator 2016 by Dovetail Games seems a better proposition anyway I purchased that one too. Now the question is where do you get these routes, speeds and distances, from the sim or elsewhere? dumb question probably but what the heck!

Would love to hear your thoughts on the differences between this route and the same section on the JT western main lines.

Thanks for taking the time to use an interesting unit rather than the very poor 175 that comes with the route. Personally, I think charging full DLC price for a route thats less than 40 miles is a rip-off, especially when the Just Trains route costs the same and gives you 300!

Is there a website that you can get drivers notes for routes?

great video. to have the just trains western mainlines do you need to have all the extra dlc to just run the Route not the addons? thanks

What type of Dovetail games is it?

Please do a French and American signal tutorial as the new tgv route is out and the conventional signals are mind boggling

Why do trains have awful all round vision through tiny windows and blinkred vision for the drivers?

coool

how did you get class 150 p.s. great video

There was a reskin from superalbs for the GWR one but only one train is reliveried which is 150232. Also, there are other First Great Western which include the trains with the plain blue and with the website firstgreatwestern.co.uk . You can get these reskins in his website: superalbs.weebly.com/ P.S. In your Class 90 video, can you tell me how did you get the Abellio Greater Anglia logo?

Still cannot work out how you are clear in the sense that everybody could understand.

did anyone else notice that the train was moving during the intro? double tap at the beggining to see!

Severn Tunnel is wholly in England its not until that loop on the welsh side that you cross into Wales.

Ptg you said northern rail they changed there name to northern. You said it when you were saying what companies operated the class 150

PTGRail can you do class 221 virgin stafford to rugby?

Is there a chance you can do the new Marseille to Avignon route?

Could you do the Scottish route from Edingburgh Waverly to Inverness

can you do the announcements in the train service in real life please.

more often uploads

XC don't run Voyagers to Cardiff; it's just their class 170s that go there

Can you do an northern rail one

Do a Glasgow central to London uston

Is this your actual voice or is it a computer?

Can you say next stop please

ok

Sucks to be Pilning.

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