Rat Run (Part 2)
When I put down my microphone last Friday we were just about to plunge into Shildon Tunnel. In Locomotion, the Dr Who script I’m almost ready to pitch to the BBC, navvies digging this hill hole in 1840 unwittingly rouse…
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Rat Run (Part 1)
Few parts of the UK have had such a profound impact on the world as the mineral-rich corner of North-East England I’ve picked as the venue for this Tally-Ho Corner rail tour. A pioneering rail network conceived and constructed two…
It’s high time for another THC rail tour
Fancy getting to know another interesting bit of Britain via a classic train sim? You’re in luck. Having picked up several bargains in the almost-over TSC2024 sale, I plan to spend the remainder of this week exploring unfamiliar lines, researching…
Train and tram sim tidbits
Thanks to a gifted layout artisan called Rinston, owners of railway modelling sim Rolling Line can now drive Lilliputian locos around a stylised recreation of Half-Life 2’s City 17.
An Introduction to Japanese Train Simulators
Empty your bladder, find a buttock-friendly perch, and affix a ‘DO NOT DISTURB’ sign to your person before diving into this fascinating 7000-word essay on Japanese rail sims. Open October contributor LBSC doesn’t just discuss relatively well-known-in-the-West offerings such as…
Train sim tittle-tattle
Scanning the 712 pieces of Train Simulator DLC currently available on Steam you wouldn’t think Dovetail’s aging stalwart had a big following and a burgeoning third-party development scene in India. I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping the likes of…
Broadland by Train Sim (Part 2 of 2)
For the last seven days two twelve-wheeled dragons have been dozing sonorously in the summer sun at Berney Arms, one of England’s sleepiest railway halts. In a moment or two, my colleague, Roman, will rouse them from their slumbers with…
Broadland by Train Sim (Part 1 of 2)
THC’s latest sim-powered rail tour starts and ends in the city of Jeremiah Colman, Alan Partridge, and John Grix. John Grix? At the height of the Norwich Blitz, this plucky fifteen-year-old worked as a Civil Defence messenger. As the bombs…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Once a month, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a day or two scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories…
Iron Horse Whispering in the Old West
One of the reasons Train Simulator remains twice as popular* as its successor, Train Sim World, has to be its packed roundhouse of high-fidelity steam locomotive add-ons. In the past, whenever I got the urge to crew a kettle, I…
Berlin Bisected: Part 1
On behalf of Tally-Ho Corner Tours I’d like to welcome you aboard this nonagenarian Class 476.3 electric multiple unit. Today, with a little help from your imagination and my copy of Train Simulator 2021, we will be traversing the southern…