Steam may be celebrating the railway experience with its Train Fest, but let's remember how rubbish the typical train trip is with some Train Sim World DLC

I've taken the train from Bath to London hundreds of times in my life, usually to visit game developers in the capital. And while I enjoy that part of the job, the journey itself is a dispiriting chore. Rail travel in the United Kingdom is a chaos of delays, overcrowding and overpriced sandwiches. Yet when I saw Great Western Express on Steam—an expansion for Train Sim World that recreates part of that route—I felt compelled to play it.

Videogames are a powerful form of escapism for me, but what if I played one to achieve the complete opposite of that?

Train Sim World is primarily a game about driving trains, but it's unique in that it also lets you be a passenger. Bath is...