5T50 1107 Buxton to Newton Heath T.M.D.
22nd August 2025On Sunday 17th August 2025, there was a possession in the Stockport area. This VAR service ran on this day from Buxton to Newton Heath T.M.D. taking an usual route due to the possession. You will change ends four times to get to Newton Heath and as is often the case, being that you’re an ECS service, you are likely to be held.
Setting: 17th August 2025
Duration: ~ 100 Minutes
Traction: Northern Trains 150148
Route(s): Just Trains Midland Mainline with Buxton and Hope Valley Extension (Part 1); DTG Huddersfield Line (Part 2)
Track Covered: Buxton to Hazel Grove; Hazel Grove to New Mills West Jn; New Mills West Jn to Manchester Piccadilly; Manchester Piccadilly to Newton Heath T.M.D via Ashburys
Note(s)
– There should be no requirement to TAB any signals, blockers and force aspect markers have been utilized on both Just Trains and DTG sinals.
Requirements
(Be aware that this list may have been condensed in the sense that if a requirement of something I list is needed, I’m not going to list that too as it is a given you’ll have it for the listed item to work)
Alan Thomson Sim
– Class 170 Northern Pack by Clowes
– Class 220/221 Updated Consists by Leander
– Class 323 Arriva Northern & Centro Liveries by Olli35
– Plasser & Theurer 09 Series Tamper by GoldStarTrains
Armstrong Powerhouse
– Class 150/1 Enhancement Pack
– Class 800-803 Enhancement Pack (highly recommend the extra equipment patch)
DTG
– Kent High Speed (used stop boards)
Major Wales Design
Train Sim Community
– Track Detonators by OnTrackSimulation
UKTS Archive
– Civil Engineers and Platelayers Pack by newbuoy
Unit Substitutions
(For future reference should stock become available and you wish to swap stock out)
Unit > In Place Of
170475 > 195004
170461 > 195016
319431 > 331107
802218 > 397002
Known Issues
– The driver doesn’t change from one end to the other after changing ends, this is a limitation of the stock used.
Updates
25/08/2025 – Uploaded fixed version where RJ22 and the signal near Ashburys gives the correct indications. Should no longer need to TAB them.
Please note that the scenario has been updated to fix RJ22 signal, if you are about to comment about this signal please install the fixed version, if you have already then please commend 🙂
A very enjoyable scenario, Thank you.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed 🙂