About South London:
If you are someone who likes stop-start operation, particularly as south London has an array of such services, then the South London Network is a must-have route. There are plenty of scenario opportunities, not just from within the included rolling stock but also those that fit the criteria from other routes (such as the 377 from London to Brighton, the 465 from Chatham Main Line, 378 from North London Line, etc.) so it is worth waiting for a sale so you can bag extra goodies for the ordinary £17.99 price-tag. If you can’t wait or want to be generous, £17.99 is a reasonable price to pay. There is large coverage with this map, meaning you can travel between London Bridge and Victoria via Herne Hill, Selhurst, or Crystal Palace. There are some opportunities missed, such as beyond to Beckenham Junction, but the map’s purpose is to focus on the prominent lines in south London, not the entirety of Southern’s network. If you intend to buy the route for this purpose, I recommend that you also subscribe to Danny Train’s “South London to Brighton” route from Steam Workshop, which combines this route and the Brighton Main Line, giving birth to opportunities to drive directly between London Bridge and Brighton. Ironically the London Overground signage does, to an extent, remove realism when you drive backdated rolling stock (such as the slammers) so grimy BR or NSE trains look out of place in a cleaner environment. As I said, if you can be put up with it, it doesn’t take away much of the realism so no harm is done. Some significant changes have been made to the route in reality since its launch in 2014, as London Bridge has been rebuilt, a new fly-under was built near Bermondsey, and several London Overground stations have new entrances, but who’s to say that DTG will relaunch the route in the future? Nevertheless, the route hasn’t aged badly, it’s more or less a time capsule from the mid-2010s.
