Train Sim World 4 - Blackpool Branches (Class 142 Pacer)

I got, I mean, my son got an Xbox Series X for Christmas and a copy of Train Sim World 4.
This is the Blackpool Branches add-on and it's great. It is set in 1986 around the time of the introduction of the Class 142 Pacer units (those temporary stop gap trains that were withdrawn 35 years later!).
This is just a few short clips of me operating a Class 142 heading towards Preston from Blackpool on my first play of the simulator.
The developers of this add-on, Just Trains, have done a great job. They really capture the atmosphere of this route in the 80s and got the Leyland TL11 engine sound spot on. Or does It sound more like a Leyland 510? It runs so much better on the Xbox Series X than earlier editions of TSW on my Xbox One.
My earliest memory of trains is walking to a bridge on the Ormskirk-Preston line at Burscough (a route included in this add-on) with my late grandfather in the early 80s just to see the DMUs pass and wave to the drivers. I was 3 or 4 and have vague memories of the older first gen DMUs being slowly replaced with these 142 around the time the simulator is set, so this simulator is actually very nostalgic for me. The bridge in question and my grandparents house is actually in the game!
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