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## About This Content
Following the much-loved ‘Memories of Maerdy’ add-on from Mesh Tools is the
stunning new ‘Return to Maerdy’ add-on for Train Simulator, complete with the
unique English Electric Type 3B Battery Locomotive and WD Hunslet 0-6-0ST
‘Austerity’.

The real-life Maerdy branch was in South Wales, running from Porth to Maerdy
Colliery, following the River Rhondda. Originally owned by the Taff Vale
Railway, it was used as a coal mining freight railway and continued into
service when the Great Western Railway took it over in 1923. The line also ran
passenger services from Porth, stopping at Ynyshir, Pontygwaith, Tylorstown
and Ferndale. The line continued up to the Colliery as freight only, privately
owned by the NCB.

The last passenger train on the branch ran on 15th June 1964 before services
ended as part of the Beeching cuts, just leaving coal trains running to Maerdy
Colliery. The track was lifted in 1987, though the colliery didn’t close until
1990. Today, many of the bridges remain and the line is a cycle path, however
the track bed South of Tylorstown is now gone, and the remains of the stations
and bridges have been removed and replaced by the Porth and Lower Rhondda Fach
Relief Road.

Included with this highly detailed Colliery extension to the Maerdy branch are
two unique locomotives – the English Electric Type 3B battery locomotive and
the WD ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST steam locomotive.

The English Electric Type 3B was a class of four wheel electric locomotives
built by English Electric between 1921 and 1951, mostly at the Dick Kerr Works
in Preston. The locomotives could be powered by batteries or from overhead
wires, with voltage, power and weight adaptable, making few of the Class
actually the same. All locomotives had a central Steeple cab with sloping
bonnets either side, which could either be filled with ballast, such as
concrete or scrap metal, or banks of lead acid batteries if the locomotive was
battery powered.

The Hunslet ‘Austerity’ was an 0-6-0ST shunting engine designed by R.A.
Riddles for the War department. The design evolved many years before from the
Class 48150 0-6-0ST produced by Hunslet; these small tank engines were then
developed by Hunslet into the class 50550, a much heavier and more powerful
engine.

In total 377 ‘Austerity’ locomotives were produced for the War Department up
until 1947. After the war, the NCB ordered 77 new ‘Austerity’ models for use
in its collieries. The NCB continued to use these locomotives well into the
1980s, long after steam on the mainline had come to an end.
## Scenarios

Four scenarios for the route:
* Over Time
* Afternoon Arrivals
* Up and Down, Slip and Slide
* Training Time

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## Key Features
* English Electric Type 3B in a number of BR and private owner liveries
* WD Hunslet 0-6-0ST ‘Austerity’ in RSH 7099 and Hunslet 3878 liveries
* Quick Drive compatible
* Scenarios for the route
* Download size: 2,195mb

Train Simulator: Return to Maerdy Loco Add-On