Fairford Branch – First Look!

81F Adam will be livestreaming the branch line section of the Fairford Branch on Thursday, 11 June 2026 at 19:00 UK time. We are excited to show off his hard work and invite you all to join us live if you can to get involved! Click the 'notify me' button on the YouTube link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmvXrXF2clI

Stroudley Coaches Trailer & Manual

We are pleased to share that our LBSCR Stroudley Coach Pack 1 will be releasing on Friday 10th April in the evening for £9.99. You can now watch the trailer and read the manual:

Download the manual from the store page.

Somerset & Dorset – Trailer

We are pleased to share an excellent trailer for our newly-released Somerset & Dorset route made by TheTrainMaster15. It showcases the route using 3rd party stock (available separately).

If you make videos on the route, feel free to tag our channel @GoldenAgeDevelopments. We kindly ask that you link the route page in your description.

Somerset & Dorset – Release Date and Price

The development team at GAD is proud to announce the release date and price for our upcoming Somerset and Dorset railway route! Train Simulator Classic players will soon be able to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the west country on our version of the iconic route from Bath Green Park to Templecombe on Monday the 17th of November, 2025! The route will release as a payware product through our new GAD Store page, which will be unveiled at the same time as the route.

The route will be available for £24.99, and will include a wide array of features, such as hundreds of custom assets, a version of the CW S&DJR 7F advanced locomotive, retextured and enhanced rolling stock, a wide selection of Standard, FreeRoam and Quickdrive scenarios, and bespoke signal models and scripting.

We are very excited to release our first payware route, and would like to acknowledge and thank every one of our fans for the continuous support and encouragement throughout not only this project, but all our past and current endeavours. We would not be able to do what we do without you!

More information on the website page.

1000 Subscribers on YouTube!

 We're thrilled to have reached the milestone of 1,000 subscribers on our main YouTube channel!

We are glad that people are enjoying our videos. We have lots more in the works!

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Somerset & Dorset Preview #1

We have uploaded a full-length preview from Templecombe to Bath Green Park on our upcoming payware​ Somerset & Dorset Railway route. We are following a Exmouth/Sidmouth to Cleethorpes express, calling only at Evercreech Junction.

​All the locomotives and stock seen in the video come with the route, its requirements, or are low poly static stock. We have upgraded a range of stock from the pre-requisites.

Answers to FAQs

• Price and release date will be announced in the next video.
• The route will require:
• Weardale & Teesdale Network
• Riviera Line in the Fifties: Exeter-Kingswear
• Woodhead (Steam era)
• TS Academy (free)
• Donators won't get a discount (donations fund only freeware projects).
• The route comes with a version of the Caledonia Works S&DJR 7F Class and enhanced stock from the pre-requisites.
• Scenarios using 3rd party DLC will come at a later date.

We hope you loved the video and are excited for the route!

LMS Circuit Preview #2

We have uploaded a second preview video of LMS Circuit. This time, we follow a local stopping train weaving its way around the western suburban loop. The train travels from Durranhill Junction to London Road via Godley Junction and Wath Central. Watch below:

LMS Circuit is likely to be our next freeware route release, coming after the payware Somerset & Dorset is wrapped up and released. The route is a sprawling network of lines, perfect for a mixture of express, stopping, and freight traffic. Return loops at each end allow for unlimited running.

You can read the route page here. Coming late 2025.

LMS Circuit Preview #1

We have uploaded a trailer and preview video for our upcoming LMS Circuit project, a re-imagining of the popular Steam Workshop route 'An LMS Route'. The trailer shows the variety of operations possible on this route!

After the trailer, we take a slow goods train from Broadbottom to Woodhead Yard, via the eastern loop and a stop for trainspotting in a refuge siding at Crowden. The route uses names from Woodhead.

We look forward to sharing more. For now, here's the route page.

Great Western Levels (1902) Trailer

We have uploaded a trailer for our upcoming Great Western Levels (1902) route!

This fictitious route is set in rural Somerset at the turn of the last century, from Glastonbury to Williton via the coast, and branches from Highbridge to Bridgwater. This makes it a perfect pre-grouping race track for not only GWR engines, but LSWR and other companies. Watch the trailer below:

You can read more information about the route on its page.