Other UK Simulations (DOS)

Fleet Manager

Manage a fleet of locomotives for a week, achieving the greatest possible mileage while ensuring that priority trains are covered and that scheduled maintenance is performed correctly. Quite different from Traffic Control, but equally challenging.

Price £10 unless otherwise shown.

  • Class 50 - Based at Laira (Plymouth) and Old Oak Common (London) before the total takeover by Inter-City 125, your fifteen locomotives have to cover services between London, Birmingham, Plymouth, Penzance and Oxford. (Difficulty #)
  • Class 45 (Peak) - Your eighteen Peaks cover passenger services on the Midland main line between St Pancras, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield. (Difficulty #)
  • ScotRail Class 47 - Your sixteen class 47/4 and 47/7 locomotives cover many of the principal ScotRail passenger services between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. (Difficulty ##)
  • Class 55 (Deltic) - Your eighteen Deltics cover principal services on the East Coast main line from King's Cross to Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. (Difficulty ##)
  • Network Solent/Sarum - Your sixteen class 33, 47/4 and 50 locomotives cover most of the loco-hauled passenger services between Waterloo, Salisbury and Exeter. (Difficulty ##)
  • ScotRail 1984 - Your nine class 27 and nine class 47 locomotives cover most of the services between Edinburgh and Dundee, as well as many other ScotRail passenger services between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness, and trips to Oban, Perth, Carstairs and Mossend. (Difficulty ##)
  • Virgin Cross-Country Manager 1998 - Manage a fleet of 33 class 47 and 17 class 86/2 locomotives for a week, achieving the greatest possible productive mileage while ensuring that all trains are covered and that scheduled maintenance is performed correctly. Virgin have taken a lot of stick, often unfairly, for poor performance; see if you can do better with this fleet of aging motive power. As well as Virgin's own electrics and 24 locos of class 47/8, you have to manage Great Western Trains' five used on the overnight sleeper services, and four 47/7s hired in from Fragonset Railways. A fleet of 50 locos and 14 main locations, as well as out-and-back workings to other places. (Difficulty ##)
  • Fleet Manager: RES - Manage a fleet of nearly ninety locomotives for a week, achieving the greatest possible productive mileage while ensuring that all trains are covered and that scheduled maintenance is performed correctly. The duties to be covered include mail and sleeper services and some freights, and your fleet includes 31 electrics of classes 86/2, 86/4 and 90, as well as 43 diesels of class 47/7 and smaller numbers of 37/4, 47/4 and 73. Biggest yet in this series, with 89 locos and 17 main locations, as well as out-and-back workings to other places. (Difficulty ###) Price £20

Freight Manager (price £10)

Manage a fleet of locomotives for a week, achieving the greatest possible productive mileage while ensuring that priority trains are covered and that scheduled maintenance is performed correctly. On top of that, you have freight load targets to achieve within the scheduled workings, or in the case of Freightliner a much larger fleet to manage

  • Toton Class 60 - Based at Toton in the East Midlands, your fourteen locomotives of Class 60 and four of Class 56 have to cover coal traffic to power stations at Didcot and Ironbridge, including feeder services from local collieries and from Ravenstruther in Scotland. You are set a target tonnage for each power station, and also have to cover priority duties on the long haul from Scotland. (Difficulty ##)
  • South Wales Coal - Based at Cardiff Canton, your sixteen locomotives of Class 37 have to cover coal traffic to the power station at Aberthaw, as well as some priority services to British Steel at Llanwern. You are set a target tonnage for the power station, and also have to contend with a limited supply at each colliery or other coal source. (Difficulty ##)
  • Freightliner Manager 1996 - Manage Freightliner's fleet of 35 class 47 and 10 class 56 locomotives for a week, achieving the greatest possible productive mileage while ensuring that priority trains are covered and that scheduled maintenance is performed correctly. Biggest yet in this series, with 45 locos and nine main locations, as well as trip and out-and-back workings to other places. (Difficulty ##)