Down The Rails

Go where the brass bands play and feet start to pound on the slot from Pragmatic Play. Initially named Going Underground, Down The rails takes you on a 5×3 London transport system with 20 pay lines, wild substitutions and a host of random base game features. Take a trip to the bonus picker, where one of five bonus games awaits, each with its own special feature, for landmark wins of up to 5,000x stake

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Slot Details

Down The Rails is a video slot with 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 pay lines. Match three to five symbols on pay lines starting from the leftmost reel for a win. Take a journey through the London Underground from 0.20 to 125 credits per spin. This game has a 5/5 high volatility rating and an RTP of 96.51% in its default format. Alternative models around 95% and 94% and possibly lower may be found at some casinos.

Going Underground is the title of a song by mod rockers, The Jam, and synonymous with 80s England, and as such, Pragmatic Play was forced to change the title, although the graphics remain untouched. Five legendary figures from British history appear caricatured as pay symbols, and free spin features come with unique train station landscapes. The game appears in the familiar colourful design of Pragmatic Play, polished, and richly themed.

The pay symbols start at the low end with 10, J, Q, K, and A, which pay from 2.5x to 5x your stake for matching five across the reels. Character symbols of Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and Henry VIII follow, and five of a kind will pay from 10x to 25x your stake.

A newspaper acts as the wild symbol, that substitutes for all others except for the bonus symbol, which is represented by the front of an underground train and triggers the bonus for landing three or more. Five wilds on a line will yield 25x your bet.

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Down The Rails Slot Features

Cultures and countries can make for a good slot theme, and a few developers have chosen to fashion games around blighty such as Punk Rocker by Nolimit City, Doggy Riches Megaways by Red Tiger Gaming, and Pragmatic Play has visited before, with big name slots like Peaky Blinders. This time, a mode of transport in the capital takes centre stage, so let’s get our ticket stamped for a tour of the features.

A base game spin will have you matching symbols along pay lines from the leftmost reel to the right for a win. On any spin of the base game, one of five random spin features can trigger:

• Tunnel Vision: A random number of mystery symbols appear on a spin to reveal a matching symbol from the pay table.
• The Big Smoke: Slams a 3×3 giant pay or bonus symbol across reels 2, 3, 4 or 5.
• Wild Strike: Adds a random number of wilds to different reel positions.
• Shifting Stack: The Shifting Stack is a 1×3 multiplier wild symbol which is added to each reel for the feature. When the reels come to rest, any Shifting Stack wilds in view will nudge to fill their corresponding reel. Shifting Stacks come with x2 or x3 win multipliers.
• Bonus Blitz: Randomly awards the Bonus Picker.

Land three or more bonus symbols to trigger the Bonus Picker or a direct trigger of the End of The Line bonus game. The Bonus Picker is a single reel loaded with the five bonus game names that spins to award one at random. At this point, you may collect the awarded bonus or gamble for the next feature.

Should you choose to gamble, the Bonus Gamble reel contains the next bonus along the trail or a Mind The Gap mystery win symbol. Winning the spin awards the next bonus and offers a chance to gamble again, up until the End of The Line bonus game. Losing a gamble awards a mystery consolation win of a cash prize from 1x to 11x bet. The chance of winning a gamble is 66.24%. There are five bonus games, each with its own special feature:

• Pentonville: Five spins with sticky wins respins. A winning combination sticks for a respin. If symbols match to further the combo, they also stick and the process repeats until no more symbols land or the screen is filled with matching symbols. Cannot be retriggered.
• Kings Cross: Five spins with wild transformations. Reels 2, 3 and 4 are marked in a cross shape. When a wild symbol lands on a marked position, all other positions fill to create a cross of wilds. Cannot be retriggered.
• Buckingham Palace: Eight free spins with full reel nudging wilds and character symbol transformations. Upon landing, full reel wilds will nudge into full view, before all character symbols transform to match the highest paying one on display. Cannot be retriggered.
• Canary Wharf: Eight free spins with cash prize collects. A golden till symbol features that, upon landing, collects cash prizes from character symbols of 1x to 50x your bet. Cannot be retriggered.
• End of The Line: Can be awarded at random as a direct trigger, bypassing the Bonus Picker. The round starts with an empty 3×5 grid and a count of three respins. This game features special symbols that reset the respin count upon landing, and the game will end when respins expire. At the end of the bonus, all cash prizes in view will be awarded. The round uses the following special symbols:
  • Money Symbols: The character symbols represent random cash prizes between 1x and 2,500x bet. Money symbols are sticky until the bonus ends.
  • Extra Life: Represented by a red heart. Collect three to win an extra life that will reset the respin count to three upon expiry.
  • Prize Boost: Represented by a green £. Collect three to increase the prize values of all money symbols in view to the next level.
  • Expand: Represented by a blue arrow. Collect three to open a new row of positions. The area can be expanded first to 5×4, and then 5×5.
  • Multiplier: Represented by a purple X. Collect three to gain an extra win multiplier. The multiplier will apply to the total win at the end of the round and can be increased firstly to x2, then x3, and lastly, x5.

Final Verdict

Down The Rails is a proven combination of random features, with a variety of bonus games determined by the bonus picker. It’s a reliable and popular game format with an appealing range of spin modifiers topped with a tempting hold and respin game, that’s capable of delivering smashing wins.

During limited demo play, which should never be used as a benchmark due to the fraction of spins completed, wins of decent standard came from both random features and a variety of bonus rounds. Going Underground will suit players who like variety in their gameplay, and comes in the recognisable graphical style of Pragmatic Play wrapped in a London theme.

Note: A last minute scramble saw Pragmatic Play change the title from Going Underground to Down The Rails, most probably due to licensing or trademark issues. We have replaced the main graphics only as the game itself is basically unchanged.

Down The Rails – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Can the random features be triggered during a bonus game?

No, the random features can be triggered during a base game spin only. 

2. What games can I play similar to Down The Rails?

There are quite a few games that combine random features and offer several different bonus games, chosen at random from a bonus picker reel or gamble wheel. Try Blueprint Gaming's Sausage Party, Ted, The Goonies or The Goonies Return.

3. How can you trigger the End of The Line bonus game?

You can reach the End of Line bonus game by an organic trigger, from the Bonus Picker reel, or by gambling a different bonus to reach it.

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