WCML Modern Day Timetable

Welcome to the WCML south, one of the busiest and important routes in the UK. This timetable aims to create a summer timetable with accurate workings between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central and will utilise the Class 390 ‘Pendolino’, Class 350 ‘Desiro’, Class 710, LU 1972 Stock and Class 66 between 2021 and 2024.

Please note this is still a WIP, for now we have implemented a full 24 hour timetable for Avanti, LNWR and London Overground, services will be selected to give the most playability and variation of the modern timetables. Now that we have completed the core section of services we will consider adding London Underground Bakerloo Line and some freight services. As many of you already know the WCML is both busy and complex so we have taken great care to ensure every train is as accurate to timetables, however some creative liberty has to be taken to ensure everything runs properly within the sim.

Current Features:

• Avanti West Coast

  • 1tph to Glasgow Central via Trent Valley
  • 3tph to Manchester Piccadilly
  • 1tph to Liverpool Lime Street
  • 2tph Express to Birmingham New Street
  • 1tph Stopper to Birmingham New Street
  • 2 hourly to Glasgow Central via Birmingham
  • 2 hourly to Edinburgh Waverley via Birmingham
  • Services to Blackpool North via Birmingham

• London North Western Railway

  • 1tph to Crewe
  • 2tph to Birmingham New Street
  • Services to Northampton
  • 2tph to Milton Keynes Central
  • 2tph to Tring (Increasing to 3 or 4 during peak times)

• London Overground

  • 4tph Between Euston and Watford Junction in each direction

• Southern

  • 1tph Between Wembley Central and Milton Keynes Central in each direction

Plans for the future:

• Simplified workings for LU 1972 Stock between Queens Park and Harrow & Wealdstone
• Comprehensive freight timetable featuring Class 66
• Summer and Winter only railtours
• RHTT during relevant months

This is our first time creating a timetable so there may be some bugs or issues that we are currently unaware of (there are simply too many services to test everyone!). We hope that you do enjoy this timetable and we are open to feedback or ideas as to what the community would like to see implemented to create a realistic and vibrant West Coast Mainline. Enjoy!

IMPORTANT NOTES

• London Overground features 2 stock moves from Willesden to Euston in the morning, the current timeable only has one which we have presumed runs as a double set into Euston, we unfortunately havent been able to implement this therefore we have added another stock move to ensure that the first train of the day has a unit.
• Currently all formations for the 390 will still be reversed this is due to a current limitation with the new patch from DTG, when we tried to flip them this is what was causing derailments at Euston due to the front of the train embedding into the buffer stop. We are awaiting a fix from DTG on this, then we can implement correct formations. We would like to thank Perks390 for advising us how to correct these formations, we will implement this following an update from DTG.
• We have experienced a possiblity of some potential crashes, we are unable to confirm fully but have a suspicion it is being cause by the auto announce mod. This may be the way we have programmed the dispatch in Euston but when we tried another method all trains decided to depart with their doors still fully open! safe to say this way a funny sight but not very realistic, we will continue to look into this in the future.

Avanti Services are now 9 & 11 car, we have added these randomly as there is no set formations that services run, aka the sets are different day by day and Euston is known for swapping trains last minute! We have encountered numerous issues when creating this timetable and safe to say it has made us tear our hair out sometimes but we are exceptionally pleased to finally be able to release this into the community. It started as a scenario creation and grew into a full timetable so we hope you enjoy driving, or spotting, as much as we do! We would like to finally thank everyone who has left us comments of appreciation or things they would like to be included, we will look into some of these in due course. Thank you and enjoy!

This timetable is compatible to work alongside the WCML/S EP mod!