Three years in the making, and like all rail related things, delayed more than once, London & South East burst onto the market in December 2004 to mark the first release from Making Tracks.

Now, its gone GOLD!

It is now available to order on DVD from the Making Tracks shop.

This stock pack is available for purchase now
for only £14.99 from the Making Tracks shop here

*LSE Gold contains LSE, plus all the service packs plus a selection of Free Stock Friday Stock.

Greater Eastern for MSTS is now available to pre-order on the Making Tracks shop for only £18.99 with free standard shipping for UK Customers.

Pre-order is available until Friday 3rd September after which the price will increase and shipping will be charged.

To purchase: www.bit.ly/buyMTGreaterEastern

For more information about Greater Eastern: www.makingtracks-online.co.uk/ge2

News in recently from the guys over at EB, they have put an announcement on their website stating that they no longer developing products for MSTS, and they have made the active decision to not support Kuju Rail Sim / RailWorks. The EB online shop is still online, offering a smaller selection of items than they used to, it appears to now only stock MML, Great Westen and West Coast Express products for download.

While no announcement has been made, I would assume that previously stocked CD version's of items will still be available from other sources until the stock is sold out. Product support files are still available from the EB site should you need them.

It's probably not news to many customers who have been following the scene for many years, but MT and EB never had the best of relationships (for reasons far to complex to go into at this stage), but on a personal level I hope that the reason for this change is nothing to drastic. I personally would like to wish Ken and Alan the best of luck in whatever path they chose to follow in the future, if MT can be of any help with anything EB related in the future (hosting fixes etc), then please drop me a line directly, and we'll see what we can offer. I know that UKTS would also offer the same.

This does leave MT as "last one standing" I guess, honestly speaking, I'm not sure how I feel about this, any sense of satisfaction of outlasting anyone else is certainly tempered with the concern that we are flogging a dead horse. MT are pinning any future long term plans on Open Rails providing a platform to produce for, it certainly seems to have potential and is going the right way, but time will tell. (It's also possible that EB are simply taking a rest before regrouping for OR work as well.)

MT have a business model which means that we are happy with the kind of sales volumes that I doubt anyone else would consider viable, we simply have tiny overheads and no 'employees', so we can continue to produce products as long after other organisations will have decided they can't continue. It is, in effect down to our customers to dictate how long MT continue to trade.

After many months in production, we are now getting towards the point that we can be fairly confident about when we will be in a position to release Greater Eastern.

The release date will therefore be September 8th 2010.

To allow us to ensure we produce enough, we will be opening a preorder for this product a bit nearer the release date. At this stage of the MSTS market, the risk of over ordering and being left with unrequired stock is very high, so preordering will help us to gauge demand for this route while preventing disappointment due to misjudging initial demand.

Greater Eastern vs Great Eastern 2

You may have noticed a change of name appearing on the site for this route changing the name to Greater Eastern, GE2 was a working title, and now given that we have abandoned the concept of a standalone version of the route this seems a more appropriate name.

This stock pack covers the Class 155 2 Car Diesel Multiple Unit built by Leyland and the Hunslet-Barclay conversions into single car Class 153's.

These all new models will come in multiple liveries, along with a representation of the Class 153 cab and the Railwave Class 153 sounds.

This pack will be released this summer exclusively by Making Tracks and will be priced at under £15.

The 'Scottish Capital Express - BR Sector Pack’ for Microsoft Train Simulator expands on the original SCE product to provide additional stock and 21 exciting new activities. You will require the Scottish Capital Express add-on by MakingTracks™ to be installed before installing the included activities within this pack.

British Multiple Unit Collection No.5 features the BREL Class 321 set of Electric Multiple Units.

This pack offers 11 liveried Class 321's, new authentic sound set and a representation of the Class 321 cabview.

This Stock Pack is available now from at the Making Tracks Shop from only £12.99.

Immediate download option available. Buy now and drive it today... Why wait for the CD to arrive??

The entire stock list is now virtually complete, with only a couple of items left to be finished / revealed.