Down The Rails

It’s time to visit London, the capital of the United Kingdom. More specifically, a trip to the underground tube station, which can be seen in the background of your screen when playing. Down The Rails features a variety of different historical figures, with this game seemingly being focused on British culture. However, most of the individuals within this slot lived during time periods, making it hard to put an exact date on when this online slot machine is set!

Regardless of this, Down The Rails is loaded with popular features, high-quality graphics, delightful animations, and a soundtrack that will surely take you back in time. Like with other Pragmatic Play titles, such as Magic Money Maze and Pirate Gold Deluxe, this game comes with the option to turbo spin. This is great for any bonus hunter that exclusively wants to land three special symbols!

Down The Rails comes with 20 fixed paylines, with the minimum and maximum bet sitting at 0.20 and 100.00, respectively. You can win a maximum of 5000x your bet, with the 'End of the line' free spins giving you the best chance of doing so! 

The paytable within Down The Rails is loaded with historic characters. However, there are also the standard Jack, Queen, King, and Ace symbols at the lower end. Matching 5 Aces will reward you with 5x your bet, which isn’t terrible considering these are the lowest paying symbols in the game.

Now for the premiums, we have Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and finally, King Henry The Eighth. If you manage to match 5 King Henry symbols, you will receive 25x your stake. There are also wilds in the form of newspapers, which pay the same amount as King Henry. Red trains are the last icon, which is responsible for triggering the bonus.

While there is only 1 symbol related to the bonus in Down The Rails, there is actually a handful of different mini-games that can be activated on any spin. The first is tunnel vision, which adds mystery symbols to different reels, all of which will transform into the same icon. Next up is the big smoke, which adds a huge 3x3 symbol to reels 1, 2, 3, or 4. 

Wild strike is the name of the next mini-game, which will place a random number of wilds over the playing area. Shifting stack will see an expanding wild placed on different reels, some of which will contain a multiplier. The final feature that can be randomly awarded is Bonus Blitz, which will award you with the main bonus.

While we're on the subject of the main bonus, let's delve into it a little deeper. To start this mode, you need to land three or more red train scatters across any of the five reels. Your bonus will be picked automatically, with you having the chance to gamble to receive the next best feature destination. 

You can potentially go to Pentonville, Kings Cross, Buckingham Palace, Canary Wharf or be taken directly to the ‘End of the line’ bonus, which is the most desirable. All of the aforementioned destinations will award 5 or 8 free spins, with a different symbol to focus on in each.

In Pentonville, winning combinations lock and a respin will trigger. This stops when no more winning combinations are found. At Kings Cross, there are areas marked with a cross. If a wild lands on any of these areas, it will be added to all of the other marked zones. For anyone travelling to Buckingham Palace, there is the potential to land expanding wilds, alongside all symbols transforming into higher paying ones.

The last two bonus locations are Canary Wharf, where you can collect cash values that land on the reels, and ‘End of the line’. With this last bonus, the slot will respin until you don’t land any new symbols. There are money symbols to collect, which all have a specific multiplier. There are also prize boosts, extra lives, reel expanders, and multiplier collectors to look out for! At the end of the round, all symbols will be added up and credited to your balance.

What better way to experience the history of the United Kingdom, than through playing an interactive online slot? Buy a ticket and jump aboard one of the many tube trains as you embark on a journey towards potentially huge wins!