Today, Dovetail Games is ringing in the holiday season for Train Sim World 6 with some special goodies.
As a way of finishing out its Season of Reveals 2025 event, Train World 6 will let players download a free Add-on, Spirit of Steam, available to keep forever at no cost as long as it is downloaded before January 5, 2026. Alongside this, a first look at gameplay for the upcoming Great Western Express Remaster was revealed, showcasing the simulator’s completely overhauled features and route.
The Spirit of Steam: Liverpool Lime Street-Crewe add-on unlocks access to steam rail tours across other UK routes, decals for the Jubilee and Stanier locomotives in mastery challenges, and more. You’ll take control of the LMS Jubilee Class locomotive, covered in BR Brunswick Green livery and adorned with BR’s late crest, as well as the LMS Stanier 8F Class locomotive, boasting BR Late Black guise and 2-8-0 wheel configuration better suited to hauling lower speed, heavy freight trains.
The route runs along the West Coast Main Line, over the Runcorn Railway Bridge, and right into the heart of Merseyside. The Spirit of Steam Add-on also unlocks steam rail tour services and AI traffic on other Train Sim World routes:
- Southeastern Highspeed
- Blackpool Branches
- WCML: Preston – Carlisle
- WCML: Birmingham – Crewe
- Glossop Line
We also got a good look at the first 10 Minutes of Great Western Express: Remastered, which fans have been highly anticipating for a while now. The new 2017 timetable for GWE will layer in up to 23 UK add-on, featuring 4,674 services, with 1,335 playable services. This is over 5x the number of total services, and over 3x the number of playable services compared to the original timetable, making it the second-largest UK timetable ever in the series.
The remaster will feature 2 new stations: Royal Oak Station and Westbourne Park, new London Underground platforms at Ealing Broadway, all Circle and Hammersmith & City line services playable using a Class 484 with a London Underground-inspired livery to represent the D-Stock trains, and more. You can see the full timetable layer list below:
- GWR HST Farewell Pack (Coming soon)
- Diesel Legends of the Great Western
- Cargo Line Vol. 1 – Petroleum
- Cargo Line Vol. 2 – Aggregates
- Cargo Line Vol. 4 – Military
- Southeastern Highspeed
- West Coast Main Line: London Euston – Milton Keynes
- West Coast Main Line: Preston – Carlisle Route
- HKA Bogie Hopper Wagon Pack
- London Underground 1938 Stock
- Tees Valley Line
- BR Heavy Freight Pack
- Class 31
- Island Line 2022: BR Class 484
- BR Class 86/2 & Mk2F Coaches
- Brighton Main Line
- Midland Main Line
- Rail Head Treatment Train
- LNER Class A3 60103 Flying Scotsman
- London Overground Mildmay line
- Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7
- Peak Forest Railway
- Riviera Line
Last but not least, the Steam post stated that the developers will be delaying the update of the Stuttgart-Heilbronn until the new year, as they want to make sure they have the proper time to devote to it. Train Sim World 6 is available now for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Epic Games Store, and Steam for $39.99. For more information on this and other new routes, like the TfW Class 142 or Cargo Line Volume 5, be sure to check back to Simulation Daily.
