Description
The Great Central was the last main line built to London, and sadly didn’t last very long; there’s little trace of much of it now (though it is proposed to use part of the route between Aylesbury and Brackley for HS2). This simulation shows it at its peak, with an intensive freight service between Annesley, focus of the coal traffic, and Woodford Halse, where the traffic splits to go several ways. At this time Annesley had recently taken delivery of a large batch of the BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 locos, and these almost monopolise this traffic. Fitted in with the freight, and almost replacing it on Saturdays, is a range of passenger services, both local and long-distance. The marshalling of freight traffic was the reason for the existence of Woodford Halse, and the shunting, more complex than any of our others except perhaps Carlisle 1957, will keep you very busy at times. Most freights terminate here, and there is a marked contrast between the single route north and the multiple destinations to the south and west. This simulation has four track screens
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