Berks and Hants to Bristol and Penzance
13th November 2020Berks and Hants to Bristol and Penzance
A route for Train Simulator 2021
BHBP merges The Railways of Devon and Cornwall (RDC) and South Western Expressways to Reading (SWER).
RDC and SWE-R are two well established TS routes. RDC started with, develops and vastly extends DTG’s ‘Riviera Line’. SWE-R started with and significantly extends and develops Just Trains’ ‘South Western Expressways’.
The combined new BHBP route has well over 300 miles of main, secondary and branch lines across southern and south west England:
• 219 miles of main line from Reading to Penzance along the Berks and Hants line via Newbury, Westbury, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro.
• 37 miles of main line from Bristol to Taunton via Cogload Junction
• 21-miles of main and secondary line from Bristol to Bath and Westbury
• 28 miles of secondary line from Exeter to Axminster
• The secondary line from Newton Abbot to Paignton, and the Paignton and Dartmouth heritage railway onwards to Kingswear
• The Exeter to Exmouth branch
• The Exeter to Barnstaple branch, including the Dartmoor Railway heritage and testing line from Coleford Junction to Meldon Quarry via Okehampton
• The Plymouth to Gunnislake branch
• The Liskeard to Looe branch
• The Totnes to Falmouth branch
• The St Erth to St Ives branch
Required routes and assets
RDC and SWER used assets from a significant number of different sources, so BHBP’s required assets list is quite long. There’s no way around this for now, but the combined route offers hundreds of miles of main, secondary and branch line track, allowing lengthy, varied and totally immersive true to life scenarios.
BHBP just won’t work at all without your having:
Train Simulator 2021
DTG – The Riviera Line
DTG – The Riviera Line in the 50s
Just Trains – South Western Expressways
It may work – but only just in some cases – without your having the routes and assets shown below. BUT there will be big gaps in the scenery and you’d have a poor user experience.
Payware:
Steam
Brighton Main Line
Town Scenery Pack
Platform Clutter Pack
West Somerset
North Somerset
WCML North
European Loco and Asset Pack (Not required if you had Train Simulator before Sept 2012)
Bristol to Cardiff
Just Trains:
Western Main Lines (none of the route extensions are needed)
Bristol to Exeter
Newcastle to Edinburgh
Alan Thomson Simulation (ATS)
ATS OHLE Pack
Freeware:
DP Simulation:
Barnstaple to Exeter
Chris Trains
NS Station and Object Scenery
UK Trainsim:
Bridge Kit (Haddock 1000)
Vulcan Productions
VP Grass Pack
Major Wales
IET/EMU Stop Sign Pack
We strongly recommend that you get hold of and install all of the above required routes and assets before you install BHBP.
The vast majority of problems reported in requests for support are caused by failure to have required assets installed.
PLEASE NOTE: BHBP uses a large number of assets available from UKTS. Where possible we have bundled them in to the route installation zip. UKTS developers and the UKTS community asset pack project require that the assets only be used in freeware routes (like BHBP) supplied free to users from the websites they’re made available from.
You are using these assets under licence from these developers. You can only distribute them (where allowed to do so) in accordance with their licence conditions, which are included in their asset directories inside the assets folder in the BHBP download zip. In short, privately using them on your own PC is fine. Only send them on to anyone else if the licence says you can and in the way the licence requires.
hi.just the class gwr 43 iam missing.readme does not say where to get from thx.
Is this compatible with South Western Expressways to reading?
I have downloaded the Berks and Hants to Bristol and Penzance DLC, and i am wondering where do i get the following from – Bristol to Cardiff (Steam) – I have tried searching for that route but cant find it, is it on an older train sim, also the other one is says – Just Trains – South Western Expressways (BUT when i tried searching for it on there it wouldnt find it).
Those are the only items i cant seem to locate.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As far as I know, Bristol – Cardiff is now “South Wales Coastal: Bristol – Swansea” (which was an extension of the original South Wales Coastal: Bristol – Cardiff”) and available from Steam – Just Trains “Southwestern Expressways” is the version currently available from Steam, not the new JT version to Reading, but check all this with Simon Spoerer by email in case I’ve missed something – he has helped me with a problem in the past.
What is the best way to uninstall this route .
Hi all. Please remember that as explained in the route manual we don’t monitor comments or respond to questions except via the High Speed Tracks Facebook page or the email address provided in the guide.
The route has installed successfully for a large number of users. Problems with missing track will almost certainly be because of failures to follow the installation process to the letter or missing required routes. Corruption can occur during downloading, so if you’ve definitely installed as instructed and have all the required routes and assets try deleting the route from your system, downloading a new copy of the route, and carefully following the installation process as described.
Downloaded the route, read the installation instructions and requirements. Cleared cache and fired up the sim.
Picked the morning HST run from EXD – PAD and went off for a very enjoyable hassle free drive for a copule of hours.
Well done all concerned and thank you for making and sharing.
Ive got missing track on most of the scenarios
Please remember that as explained in the route manual we don’t monitor comments or respond to questions except via the High Speed Tracks Facebook page or the email address provided in the guide.
The route has installed successfully for a large number of users. Problems with missing track will almost certainly be because of failures to follow the installation process to the letter or missing required routes. Corruption can occur during downloading, so if you’ve definitely installed as instructed and have all the required routes and assets try deleting the route from your system, downloading a new copy of the route, and carefully following the installation process as described.
Hello,
is it normal that there are areas which don`t have any scenry around? After leaving Penzance there is only a green
ground and there are no houses or anything around.
Hello. The same is here. I installed all required routes and assets except BenGarfirth and Ceege I need to know in which free routes can be this found. Please tell us if these areas are not completed? Thank you.
Ceege is essential to the successful installaltion and enjoykent of the route. It’s included in the download file, so please do install it.
That Area Is Still WIP
I like it but alas on standard scenario 1C83 /3C83 the 18:33pm Paddington – Penzance which starts from Reading seems to stop at a red signal on the approach to Westbury 30mins later still cant proceed despite pressing TAB button
getting tempdump errors and wont even run. also asking for royalscot02 pack
correction not asking for the loco but ts is crashing using the 166 cascade senarios.
So far I’ve failed to drive the full route in either direction as I keep getting out of memory crashes 🙁 Also the Royal Albert bridge at Saltash appeared to have some textures missing, although this appears correctly for me on the RDC route. Perhaps that could be also due to running out of memory?
Try turning down your scenery density etc. The route requires high system specs to run with high density scenery settings etc.
I have no track in Cornwall despite having all the required routes and assets.
same as. i load up the liskeard to reading hst, and there are no tracks and the train derails.
I deleted the the route and installed it again manually. All running fine now!
hi why there no train from penzance to reading but there is one from reading to penzance on quick drive why dont you put penzance in departed one
there are no track on line from kingswere to paighton can you help me out
I’m also having the same issue
I am having the same issue and therefore AI collisions. Cornwall has no track and yet the Reading end does. I have been successfully running all the required DLC for months.
Do you have the Exeter Kingswear in the 50s route installed?
Do you have to have all the AI in quickdrive for it to work? I’ve tried three quickdrive routes marked AI but no AI shows up. Admittedly I don’t have the AP ones or the reskins but I have the rest. Normally when you have missing items a window appears telling you the ones that are missing but you can press F2 to continue. I don’t get this window. I might get the AP ones but only if I thought they were going to work in this route’s quickdrive.
Please advise.
Is there a stock list for route. As keep getting missing stock. Thx
Are you sure its not in the manual? if it is what scenario are you having problems with?
I had an issue where it kept saying ‘failed to load consist’ for once of the MJW Class 43 revamp sets. Having checked whether it was installed properly, it turned out that if I opened it in the scenario editor it worked fine. Weird!
There’s one in the manual, but we are aware of some missing items from the list. We’re working on that.