We aim to enable anybody to get in to the world of creating their own models by providing a comprehensive suite of Tutorials and Guides - supplementing them with user contributed ones as they arrive - so that you can go from driving trains to creating your own with as little pain and how does that work? as possible - taking the mystery out of it.

It is not our aim to be a central public access file repository - they cost far too much in Bandwidth to run - however we will be providing a file repository for which only very limited access will be available to non-premium members to the service. Membership is quite cheap and will help make sure this site does not get shut down due to excessive bandwidth utilisation. The control of this library will be a highly advanced system that should enable collaboration between modelers and users a-like, you say what you want and they say what they are doing and hopefully everyone will meet up in the middle.

We are hoping to compliment, not compete with or try to replace, other Train Sim websites that are on the Internet. Our focus is on modeling rolling stock, activities and routes specifically in the UK and later on perhaps moving in to Europe (one of our team is very much a fan of the Finnish). How far we go and what we do beyond the UK will very much depend on how successful the site is and what demand there is for expansion in to Europe.

Do you do your own models and skins?
Yes, UKTrainSim will be producing its own set of loco's, rolling stock and whatever else we put our minds and time to. Anything you see released by Matthew Peddlesden aka NeutronIC is one of ours, so far this includes 55001 St. Paddy (Deltic), BR Blue and Gray coaches and a fictional repaint of the Acela HHP into Virgin Trains livery.

We have more works in progress and are forging relationships with other members of the UK Train Simulation community such as Tim Booth (Class 47 and GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank Engine) and James Hunt (Class 37 and Class 43 Intercity 125).

Any releases that we make freely available will also be made available with the original textures and 3D Canvas source files so that you can learn from, fix, expand, do whatever you like (as long as our name isn't taken away from the original work ofcourse!). We have no plans for commercial releases at this time though that doesn't rule it out for the future.

Why do I need an Atomic Account to get access to the files?
File libraries are expensive things to provide, it is a myth that Internet sites are free to run, far from it. As a result, if you sign up for a free Atomic account you will get limited access to the file library and this will always be subject to change (or even removal completely) based on our bandwidth usage and the premium user take-up (ie. we're not letting the file library shut the whole site down - though we do have quite a bit of bandwidth available to the site, you can never have enough :) ).

They may be other features in future that require an Atomic Account to gain access, however since an Atomic account is free and very quick and easy to get we do not see this has any kind of a hurdle. Atomic Systems have only the most honourable intentions - your details will never be passed on and you won't suddenly appear on a load of junkmail lists when you sign up.

Click here for more information about what it is, and what it costs, to be a Premium member.

So who are Atomic Systems IP Ltd anyway?
Atomic Systems IP Ltd are the people that fund and develop this site. It's not our main activity but some of the members of the company are very much into Train Simulators so we've redirected some of our efforts to helping the community and build a strong presence for the UK within Train Simulator.

We have been in business for over two years, our first website was http://www.deardiary.net/.

Matt Peddlesden is the Train Sim addict, Steve Brown and Les Gray are mostly Formula 1 or Flight Simulation addicts - but together, we are Atomic Systems (that was so cheesy I could put it in a foil packet and slap a 'quaver' sticker on the front :-) ).