Train Simulator 2016 - Route Learning: York to Peterborough (Valenta HST) // 50fps 

I'm going to miss the HST's and 91's on the ECML when the 800's come along. The 91's and HST's always felt like getting on a proper train, which can't be said for the more modern desiros, voyagers etc...

Thanks for a great video, which looks so much better on the big TV screen. Nice to see home town Newark Northgate again after about 50 years or so. Keep up the good work 👍🇦🇺.

I'm not a rail enthusiast (aviation is my thing) but this is a great siimmulator! Thanks for posting.

Another very good route learning video - thanks for all the effort and work you put into it.

I believe that at the angled concrete does bridge between the Selby line junctions there was a serious accident, near Great Heck. A car driver fell asleep at the wheel, crossed agricultural land and ended up on the permanent way. He got out and tried to warn of the danger but in the meantime an oncoming passenger train collided with his vehicle and was derailed. A few moments later a freight train traveling in the opposite direction also ran into the wreckage. I can't recall the casualty figures, but they were significant. Subsequently a survey of over bridges was carried out and measures taken to prevent similar occurrences were taken.

I remember spotting these on the platforms at Kings X as a boy back in the day! Great video fella...keep em coming!

Turn it to 10x speed and the train moves at the start while it is being described

i love your videos!!!!!!!! i love it when there is a content about "all around the world"!!! i love when i watch this is makes me calm down and i can remember some memories like when i went to London Kings Cross to go to the airport to go to bermuda (bermuda is where i live)!!!!!! i wanna be a person in the video its just so exiting to watch!!!! when i step in my train station (york) i fell like I'm in a magical place!!!!! (btw i love love lovvveee travel so sorry if I'm a chatter mouth -_-) plz upload more ~Sayuri xoxoxo

Another astonishing video. Perfectly well explain as always. Enjoyable and exciting. Thanks for uploading. In your plans ahead if you could also do a scenario in the MML on a HST EMT. That'll be great. Many thanks.

As usual Peter , Fantastic Video Content . Really enjoyed it .

7,000 subscribers buddy, you did it! Been with you since 2.5K!

1:13:41 the Mallard plaques dedicated to the steam speed record

Great video by the way

Great video as always Pete! This is my favourite train, I like the styling which still looks good today, 40 years after them coming into service. As I understand it they were originally classed as 253s and 254s as they were seen as a complete train set. Surprised you didn't go for a class 225 set though? :-)

The skew border bridge as you leave York is the Holgate Road bridge. This bridge had to be lifted when the line was electrified, causing major road traffic disruption in the city.

Train Simulator should create the East Coast Mainline from King's Cross - Inverness from all different time periods.. not even to mention smaller things that connect with it, Lincoln Line, Lincoln, Hull, Skegness, Cleethorpes, etc.. Just a thought there!

Good video

This is an excellent overview as always. I wish there was a way to connect the Doncaster Works dlc to the ECML.

Hey I really like your video. You was right about the lower lines at Retford. Will you be able to do a video from or to Lincoln as That will be a good one to do. Keep the good work going

Great vid!! The way you go about Newark is it near your home town? Tis’ mine and everything you mentioned was so accurate!

The first bridge you go under as you head out of york is known locally as the Iron Bridge!

Why did they get rid of the Valenta engines? Brings back memories for me when I was a kid travelling on the HST with this my favourite livery from London down to Cardiff on School holidays to visit family. Loved the sound of them. Ear splitting when you were standing on the platform watching the train arrive or depart

whilst you're right about the direction of the Retford low level platforms being Lincoln to the East and Worksop and Sheffield to the West, there IS a link between the ECML and there. just North of Platform 2 at Retford there is a curve that goes around and joins to the Lincoln/Sheffield line. it's very tight and 142 / 144 stock have been known to get stuck there. Some of the first and last Sheffield services of the day start on P2 and use this curve.

So smooth and very pleasant to see the quality of your work. PS: The speed limit restriction at 38:21 isn't too late to break? Or has each of the double yellow flashing signals you must imperatively reduce your speed?

Excellent video! Like yourself,Newark Northgate holds some fond memories from my youth also and I've travelled this section of The ECML many times.Could you (or anyone else for that matter) advise me as to what kind of system I would need to able to run Train Sim,please? I've been in the market for a new laptop for some time and if I'm going to do it then I'd like it to have the necessary abilities.Many thanks!

I'm disappointed, you haven't got any nodding donkeys (144's) running through the station at Doncaster!

I thought this game would be very very boring, You have a calm and informative approach enjoyed it. Can you recommend a good train and track for a new player?

Few extra bits and pieces: British Rail hired their first female train driver in 1983. Mallard did indeed reach 126mph in 1938 but aGerman electric train had already reached 130mph the previous year, so it wasn't the fastest a train had ever gone at the time. An Italian electric train also clocked 126mph in 1936, I should add! Also, as far as I'm aware the flashing green was not given an extra lamp on the signal head but was simply set up so that the existing green light would flash (rather similar to flashing single and double yellows).

when i go from Peterborough, and in York i choose any incoming platform, always happens to the blue line on the map indicates the direction of Selby. This is quick drive, because there are no scenarios in Standrard and Career.

Another super video, ptgrail. The hst paxman valenta in swallow livery is a favourite. Would you be able to do a York to Peterborough non stop thrash. Better still to London K Cross?

Sorry to post again, but I posted the last from memory and wasn't satisfied that my recall was correct. Having checked I am pleased to say that I was but some detail was lacking. There's a good report on Wikipedia not you want more detail. An interesting fact s that the combined speed of impact was estimated to be 142 mph, the highest recorded for a head on collision on rails in the UK. The car driver was prosecuted and sent to prison for 5 years for causing dear by dangerous driving.

Hi PTG Rail. I was just wondering how demanding TS is. What is the cheapest I am looking at for a pre-built PC good enough to run this?

Are these routes purchased as a stand alone programme, or do they use a common platform like the old Microsoft Train Simulator did when running the various add-ones?

at Retford the lower level platforms are indeed going to Lincoln and Sheffield and are currently operated by Northern (an ariva franchise)

What are your settings at as I get high FPS but would love nice graphics could you help me out

the slow service is operated by southern

purchased this route off the back of this video! :) would you know of any scenarios available for this route? that sport modern day operations /liverys? qd is great but there's so many intercity 91's/43's (never usually a problem, just for the purpose of realism), another great upload :)

What setting do I use to make my point of view like yours .

great vid as always I have often wondered is there a correct way to sound the horn i.e. low tone to high tone or high tone to low tone or is it a driver preference?I notice you used both ways when sounding the horn

While yes, 50fps footage is, for the most part, a lot smoother than 30fps, most monitors are 60hz (60fps) and because 60 does not divide easily into 50, 50fps footage can look a bit jarring at times as they remain on the screen for an uneven amount of time per frame, so 60fps is much better where possible. But I understand this was beyond your control and constant frame drops would have a worse effect. Nice video as usual in lots of detail :D (Just a computer nerd passing through)

Great video, nothing beats a Valenta HST for me really! While not strictly pertinent to your video, I have been wondering whether or not the physics of the Train Simulator HST model are accurate compared to real life. I found that while stopping distance is pretty much correct (125mph to a stand in 1,930 yards with full service brake application, compared to 2,200 yards for older loco-hauled trains with tread brakes from just 100mph, hence why HSTs can run faster on some stretches of track compared to other trains), the acceleration is way off. An HST should reach 100mph from a stand in 3 mins 15, and 125mph in a further 4 mins (7 mins 15 seconds overall). The TS HST takes a frankly ridiculous 10 mins 30 a full 3 and a quarter minutes too long to reach 125mph. So here's hoping someone fixes the HST so it's possible to reach 125mph without running out of track!!! Also, I don't know if you are aware, but the set you were driving was labelled as a Class 254 on the front, until the mid-80s the HSTs were considered DMUs with the 2+7 Western Region sets classified Class 253 and the 2+8 Eastern and Scottish Region sets Classified Class 254. The HSTs were later reclassified as loco-hauled trains with Mk3 coaches and Class 43 locomotives but the HST Mk3s are still referred to as trailer cars. The sets were originally formed as Class 253: DMB-TF-TF-TRUB-TS-TS-TS-TS-DMB and Class 254: DMB-TF-TF-TRUK-TS-TS-TRSB-TS-TS-DMB. After complaints from guards about riding in the rear power car one TS in each set was replaced by a new-build TGS and the extra TS vehicles were used for spares and to lengthen some sets. By the early 1980s there was no longer a requirement for two catering vehicles in the ECML sets and so the TRUKs were removed and converted to Loco-hauled Mk3 catering vehicles (RFM). The remaing catering vehicles in both ECML and GWML sets were fitted with First Class seating and an extra TS was added to the GWML sets. Cross-country and Midland Mainline routes were given HST services by 1982 with Inverness being served from 1983.

why is this route listed as available soon on the website?

What speed can trains drive at when passing Grantham station at high speed?

7 to 8 coaches on every hst corrections: network rail set has 5 coaches grand central set has 6 coaches vtec set has 9 coaches 7 to 8 coaches sets are cross country (7), east midlands trains (8) and great western railway (8)

How fast can you pass Grantham at speed (following real speed limits)

I was doing this route yesterday and I was on the same line as u etc and for some reason my train just carried going on forward

Great video. will this work for TS 2017?

I downloaded the route but none of the assets work

if i purchase this can i join it up with my other ECML add ons ( Kings cross - Peterborough York - Newcastle Newcastle - Edinburgh )

When are you going upload some more videos.

Does this route come/connect with the Lincoln line, and the Hull line?

Just out of pure curiosity, where are the HST's used? All over England or just in certain areas like on this route? I also notice the HST accelerates very slowly :P. Gives the passengers a smooth ride at least.

What are your pc specifications?

Doncaster station looks jist how it should

I have downloaded and purchased this route but I don't know how to install it :( !?? And it didn't have instructions on how to install it either !

The title says train simulator 2015, you might want to change it :) anyways good video!

When where the HSTs reclassified from Class 254 to Class 43?

May I just ask, if you are going to use an Intercity HST, why not just buy the British Rail era version fo this route? Otherwise it just looks odd, this would have been perfect done with that Virgin '100 years of Craigentinny' HST Power Car repaint maybe available from Bluecode set in 2015/2016.

i want to second part to london kings cross service

it is 9 coaches for ecml and 7 or 8 coach hst's for gwml

Downloaded this but having real trouble installing it even unzipping the folder any help anyone +pgtrail

How about cromer

i live in york

A bit disappointed with the scenery setup around Peterborough compared to ECML peterborough to kings cross. Otherwise the video was entertaining and informative as usual.

To be on is't i like this video cuz you whent to retford cuz i live there

Could’ve recreated the Southall crash Just kidding

Do one that goes to leicester

Class 254? Lol class 43 still faster than class 390

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