Train Sim World 2 New Journeys expansion – celebrating 50 years of Bakerloo Line trains

metro.co.uk:

Dovetail Games release a new expansion for Train Sim World 2 that celebrates a half century of the Bakerloo Line’s current trains.

Every Londoner has an intimate relationship with the Tube system, but that relationship can be complex. On the one hand, we love it: it’s a source of great pride as the oldest and most venerable underground railway in the world. However, we are also forced to acknowledge that it has issues – never more so than now, as it’s starved of necessary government funding in the aftermath of an unprecedented pandemic.

We all know that the Tube has to make do with ancient technology and we try as hard as we can to make allowances for that. It’s a situation which is highlighted, in an unexpectedly heartwarming manner, by the latest expansion pack for Dovetail Games’ Train Sim World 2, entitled New Journeys.

Train Sim World 2 might not sound like the most exciting game you’ve encountered. If you aren’t into trains you may struggle to locate its appeal. But even if you aren’t a fully paid-up, card-carrying trainspotter, you might be surprised. Its success is beyond debate: just the core game alone, available on multiple platforms, has been downloaded by 7.9 million people. And New Journeys is the 53rd add-on.

Priced at £8.99, New Journeys is not an expensive purchase and executive producer Matt Peddlesden confirms that Dovetail Games has designed it to appeal to pretty much anyone who plays the game: ‘We get a lot of requests from players for more to do on the routes they’ve already got.’ So for New Journeys, Dovetail Games focused on three of the lines in the basic game: ‘Sand Patch Grade in the US, the Koln-Aachen line in Germany, and the London Underground – everyone has those.’

‘We looked at each of those