Train Simulator 2018 Routes
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The alternative Southern / ex-LSWR route climbs through farmlands to Okehampton then across northern Dartmoor and down to Tavistock, terminating in Plymouth Friary Station, a scenic but less busy route servicing many small holiday communities in north Devon. GWR and SR would run trains along both routes in order for drivers to familiarize themselves with the branches in case an emergency detour was necessary.
“Glorious Devon” recreates the area as it would have looked in the late 1950's, pre 1964 after which the Beaching changes took effect. Significant research has been undertaken to achieve the closest possible authenticity, recreated in digital, for Train Simulator.
It was a period of great transition for Britain's railways, from much loved steam traction – Manors, Halls, Castles and Kings, to early classic diesel hydraulics – Hymeks, Warships and Westerns on the GWR route, along with Bullied light pacifics, King Arthurs, Schools, T9, S16’s and many other smaller classes on the Southern portion.
Glorious Devon offers great potential for scenario writing, from local passenger services, to inter-regional expresses to London, the Midlands and beyond. Although the location is predominately rural, freight services were varied too, including coal distribution and fuel for a 40MW power station, livestock, milk, fruit, fish and china clay and ballast. There is much to discover, from rail connected docks to stations long since closed but now brought back to life.
The route comes with several excellent scenarios.
Enjoy Glorious Devon!
Riviera Line
Riviera Line in the Fifties
Falmouth Route
West Somerset Railway
Woodhead Line
Bristol to Exeter
Isle of Wight
China Clay for Export Route Add-On
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This route provides an extension to the ECML: London to Peterborough route and adds additional track and scenery to Letchworth Garden City and Royston, along with the EMU sidings at Letchworth and the new flyover at Hitchin.
This extension was done after a request from a friend to include Letchworth Garden City on the ECML route so I initially decided to have a crack at that part.
After subscribing and allowing installation of the route via the Steam Workshop, the route will be listed under Quick Drive as '[DPS] East Coast Mainline - South'. A very basic quick drive has been provided with fast line paths to and from the new stations. Initially the grand plan was to add the new paths to a clone of the original ECML quick drive, but doing so (rightly) fails the workshop validation process. If the route doesn't show up after installation, all I can suggest is to unsubscribe and re-subscribe to the route, I have no control over how the route installs on to your system.
Steam Requirements
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It's hard to define a period in which the route is set, infrastructure wise the layout is from around the late 90's, but station signage and surrounding scenery will reflect the current period, this crossover should allow a broad period for the use of rolling stock without it looking out of place.
Basic Quick Drive is included in this initial version with an all new custom quick drive system planned when there are more route miles.
V1.0 includes the line branch from Redditch to Barnt Green along with the main line as far as Longbridge.
Requirements
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The section of the former Great Western Railway that runs across the South Devon Banks to Plymouth from Exeter and its branch to Kingswear is one of the most famous and picturesque locations in England that has captured many people's hearts.
“Glorious Devon” recreates the area as it would have looked in the late 1950's, pre-1964 after which the Beaching changes took effect. Significant research has been undertaken to achieve the closest possible authenticity, recreated in digital, for the Rail Simulator game. A period of great transition for Britain's railways, from much loved steam traction – Manors, Halls, Castles and Kings, to early classic diesel hydraulics – Hymeks, Warships and Westerns. Colour light signals were just making an appearance around Plymouth and the diesel shop at Laira was in the first stage of construction. The iconic Intercity House at Plymouth North Road station had yet to be built.
Glorious Devon offers great potential for scenario writing, from local passenger services, to inter-regional expresses to London, the Midlands and beyond. Although the location is predominately rural, freight services were varied too, including coal distribution, livestock, milk, fruit, fish and china clay.
There is much to discover, from rail connected docks to stations long since closed but now brought back to life.
The route comes with several excellent scenarios.
Enjoy Glorious Devon!
Riviera Line
Riviera Line in the Fifties
Falmouth Route
West Somerset Railway
Woodhead Line
Bristol to Exeter
Isle of Wight
China Clay for Export Route Add-On
Victory Works have provided the “GWR Saint Class and Travelling Post Office” addon for Train Simulator. In order to provide reasonably accurate locations for the lineside apparatus and track links for the owners of this addon the Glorious Devon team has produced this TPO patch for Glorious Devon Exeter to Plymouth ver. 1.2.
The patch provides location markers for the lineside apparatus, a few small changes to the scenery so as to provide room for the apparatus, with attending Royal Mail vans etc. and the manual provides lots of information for scenario writers who wish to produce TPO scenarios.
Included is a sample scenario primarily to show the placement of lineside apparatus and links in the scenario editor but also for a chance to have the excitement of driving a double headed Saint mail train from Exeter to Plymouth.
Depicting the period around 2013, this modernisation features a complete replacement of track, along with rationalisation where required to reflect the modern layout. The route has been completely resignalled with correct numbering and catenary has been added using the latest available tools. Older foliage has been replaced with newer variations, and the route now utilises the GEML texture set, allowing greater variation during the ongoing development.
As well as the modernisation of the original 80 mile line between Newcastle and York, extensions have been added on the Tees Valley Line between Darlington and Middlesbrough, an extension between Newcastle and Swalwell Junction via MetroCentre, an extension between York and East Garforth and an extension from Newcastle to Heaton Depot, allowing a natural start/finish point for scenarios. Track has also been included on other portions of the route in anticipation of future scenery additions.
Finally, a whole array of custom models have been produced and placed in the route in various locations. These include bespoke station models at Middlesbrough, Eaglescliffe, Teesside Airport, MetroCentre, Church Fenton, Ulleskelf and East Garforth. There are also many new landmarks included as well as general lineside and clutter models. Some of these models are currently incomplete, and may only have basic textures, this does not detract from the enjoyment of using the route.
Development of the route is ongoing and further extensions/revisions will take place in the future, along with the addition of further custom content.
A scenario page does exist at DPSimulation and currently has a handful of scenarios available for this route and can be found here. Other sites such as UKTrainsim also feature scenarios for this route in their download library.
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Track and scenery extension from Haymarket to Midcalder JunctionCarstairs.
Scenery extension from Larbert to Stirling.
Scenery extension at South Gyle.
Basic Quick Drive is included in order to allow the new areas to be explored.
Please note that due to the inability to upload custom objects and the lack of suitable content included with the route, Stirling does not have a platform base, only invisible splines which will allow passenger loading/unloading. Likewise, Carstairs is very basic in it's creation due to the unavailability of custom assets. The same issue exists regarding level crossings which intentionally have gates/lights missing. This is due to no suitable assets being available in the Edinburgh to Glasgow DLC and my unwillingness to require another DLC for minimal gain.
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Download Here: South West Branch Line
Version 1.2 is only a small part of the network which is intended to be constantly upgraded over time in order to provide a sizeable network of lines, both through cityscapes and rural suburbs. Version 1.2 is by no means complete, but it should allow the user to explore and drive what has been created so far.
This is a scenery update for the payware Edinburgh to Glasgow route by Thomson Interactive. Version 1 adds the scenery between Larbert and Stirling.
Description
This is a beta version of Cresston V4 and is not the final, completed product. This will manifest in a number of different ways. Parts of scenery are missing and some areas are in a grubby state. In order to provide some order to the chaos, some areas will have a billboard above the track stating that this is still a WIP area. As this is a beta, some signalling, speed limits, track properties and other track related items are still missing. This has an obvious impact on scenario creation, however, it is still safe to create scenarios in most areas and any future beta releases along with the final release will not break these.
Despite the billboards stating some areas are a no go, many areas of scenery beyond these boards are actually complete and you are more than welcome to go beyond them and take a look around, much of the idea behind releasing an open beta is in order to give people the chance to take a look at what is to come.
Requirements
Cresston V4 requires WCML North and the AP Station Asset Pack. The WCML North pack is located within the Steam store and the AP Station Pack is included with various routes available from Steam. These are not optional downloads, and are integral to the route. There are no further downloads required**, everything else is included within the route package.
**This is applicable for existing users who had purchased all versions of Railworks up until Train Simulator 2012. As this route relies on much of the original asset content that was included in these original versions, any new users who only own TS2013 as of 21/09/2012 will also need the legacy Euro and US Asset Packs. These are available from Steam.
If any new users are wishing to use this route and are wondering which is the best way to move forward, and are willing to make a purchase, it's worth nothing that the main requirement WCML North includes both of these asset packs at no further cost.
Scenarios
Included within OBv2 is a short scenario which does not feature AI. This is there merely for the end user to have a quick drive over some of the newer sections of the route. This scenario utilises the Class 156 DMU, available from the Steam Store.
Download
There is a possibility that the following link may become unavailable for short periods, especially in the hours following initial release. If this does happen, please be patient.
Download Here: Cresston V4
Route Occlusion Upgrades by Fodda
Tunnel occlusion modules are a part of Train Simulator 2016. These scenery items allow a route builder (or modder) to add occlusions to any model or part of a TS2016 route. These occlusions basically block any rain or light coming into the occlusion. Of course they may be fine tuned, and specifically the amount of light inside the occlusion can be changed from being totally dark, to totally light.
What this means is that placing one in a tunnel allows the tunnel to become as dark as the person wants, with a variable fade in and out as a train enters or leaves the tunnel. It also makes other trains in the tunnel appear properly (not glowing).
Please take note of the included readme in each file for installation instructions.
East Coast Main Line: London to Peterborough - Download Here
Edinburgh to Glasgow (Tunnel Patch) - Download Here
Falmouth Branch (RSC Version) - Download Here
Falmouth Branch (Longbow-GWR Version) - Download Here
GWML (Oxford to Paddington) - Download Here
London to Brighton - Download Here
SDJR (Bath Templecombe) - Download Here
Settle to Carlisle V7 (JetGriff) - Download Here
Settle to Carlisle (RSC Version) - Download Here
The Woodhead Line - Download Here