The layout you never had room for.
Shape your terrain, lay the track and crate your own model railway layout with platforms, stations, buildings, sidings, and scenery, then step into Drive and run your own timetable. A model railway game set in the British steam era, drawn like the 00 gauge kits you know.
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Build mode
Raise hills, dig cuttings and tunnels, fill a canal. Lay track with flowing curves, set the points, add a turntable and an engine shed. Detail to your heart's content with a large library of assets.
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Drive mode
Take the regulator yourself, forward and reverse, or let the services run to time. Shunting jobs, inglenook puzzles, and animated industrial set pieces give endless operational variety.
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Working timetable
Set places on your layout then programme your timetable with an intuitive interface. Or just place trains on the layout at run them!
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Points and turntables
Control points by clicking the signals to flip the tracks, working turntables.
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Kit-built buildings
Country stations, signal boxes, brick terraces, goods sheds and engine sheds, in the spirit of card kits on your workbench.
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The 1950s, done properly
Choose from three period correct wireless stations, rolling stock inspired by real life, period correct locomotives, and more.
At the workbench
Real screenshots from Build mode. Every tool is on the bar along the bottom of the screen.
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Terrain › Baseboard
Start with a bare board
Every layout begins as a plain board on the floor of the club room. Hover an edge until it lights, drag it out, and click to add a new section. Designed to make it look like you're building on a real exhibition layout! Customise colors and lighting in your own exhibition hall.
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Terrain
Shape the land
Raise hills and lower valleys, smooth them off, or lay a steady slope for the line to climb. Match picks up a height with a right-click and levels ground to it, ready for a station yard. Easily create rivers, lakes and canals.
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Track
Lay your track
Draw track in flowing curves, with realistic track radius, and gradients. Embankments, sweeping viaducts, bridges and cuttings. Single and dual track tools.
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Trains
Locos, wagons and coaches
Pick a locomotive, wagon or carriage from the library and set it on the rails. Click the layout for a shunting engine, or a staging road for a train that will arrive later. Badges on the pictures show which pack a model comes from.
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Buildings
Create an authentic 1950s British village
Civic, commercial, harbour, industrial, railway and residential buildings, plus ready-made set pieces. Every one is modelled like a card kit: red brick semis with bay windows, cottages, terraces, the station and the signal box. Roads, walls, trees and props finish the scene.
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Services
Set a timetable
Make up a train, choose where it pulls in from and where it leaves, and add the stops along the way. Each service goes on the timetable in order with its wait after the one before. Switch to Drive and they run to time while you work the yard. Create shunting jobs - build your own inglenook and timesaver shunting puzzles!
From the stock box
Models from the base game and its expansion packs. More locomotives, coaches and wagons are being built every week.

Locomotives packCastle class 4-6-0 
Locomotives packA1 Pacific 4-6-2 
Locomotives packStreamlined Coronation 
Base gameClass 5 4-6-0, lined black 
Country Creamery packPrairie tank 2-6-2T 
Harbour packBarclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 
Locomotives packCollett coach, chocolate & cream 
Base gameCountry station 
Base gameSignal box
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