Motive Power

a capital pot for orders, refurbishments and conversions, and a maintenance allowance drained by the fleet's running costs. Spending capital well is what relieves the maintenance account.Direct the programmes — electric train heating, dual brakes, refurbishment life-extensions, sub-class conversions and renumberings, on historical schedules or your own.Manage the map— allocate classes across the real depot network as it opens, closes and specialises across the era.Face the era — the Beeching reports, the 1968 Transport Act, oil shocks, strikes and sectorisation arrive on their real dates, with real mandates attached.Answer for it every DecemberEach year closes with a graded report card marking your railway against the real one — budget, availability, fleet costs, objectives. At the end of 1994, four decades of your decisions stand against BR's actual record.Two ways to playHistorical the calibrated museum: the fleet lives and dies as the record says it did, and your deviations are measured against it.Living economy— demand drives the railway: surpluses go to store, deficits bite, the Treasury escalates, and your alternative history earns its own consequences. Never a game-over — the score simply records the wreckage.Features51 real locomotive classes, 1955–1994, researched from published recordsDeterministic worlds — every game replays exactly from its seedEra starts from 1955 to 1993, from the Pilot Scheme to the sector railwayAn interface that lives in its era — BR green boardroom to sector-era skinsPeriod railway photography throughoutA full in-game player's guide covering every mechanicFleet strategy, not train driving — no timetables, no signalling, no micromanagementHuge thanks to Platform 5 Publishing for their kind permission to use real data from their Motive Power Pocket Books and Combined Volumes