We're really excited to formally announce our second route under development for RailWorks Train Simulator 2012 to take us firmly into the industrial heart of the country.

Set in the Stoke-on-Trent area in the 1970s this is no high speed passenger route but more the bread and butter of the railways: Coal Mines; Quarries and Power Stations with a supporting cast of remote yards and junctions, single track and some challenging gradients.

Forget any ideas about breaking the speed record, with some very low line speeds, extreme gradients and unfitted trains the only thing you'll be worried about breaking is the string of wagons behind!

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