NSE – Phase 2 / Part 1.4 (Updated 10/05/24)

NSE – Phase 2 / Part 1.4 (Updated 10/05/24)

12th March 2024 47 By Chris Horsfield

** IF YOU UPDATE THE ROUTE TO THE LATEST VERSION, OR REINSTALL THE ROUTE, OR THE AP SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT PACK AT ANY POINT, PLEASE ENSURE YOU ALSO REINSTALL THE JAMES IVELL SIGNAL EP PATCH THAT IS LISTED IN THE REQUIREMENTS **

UPDATE LOG:

10/05/2024:

  • Thistle Shopping Centre in Stirling added.
  • Night lighting adjustments.
  • Some bridges replaced with better quality models.
  • Fence replacement in various locations.
  • Terrain bleeds fixed.
  • Other fixes/asset replacement which currently eludes my tired brain!

19/04/2024:

  • Replaced the old EMT style lampposts which snuck under the radar at Croy.
  • New customised signals around Edinburgh with offset theatre boxes.
  • Night illumination of the footbridge to the South of Stirling (It actually is blue IRL!).
  • Removed old erroneous mileposts from Phase 1 that somehow still lingered.
  • Corrected speeds and additional signage at Cadder HST Depot.

19/03/2024:

  • Fixed incorrect speed at Carmuirs West Jn.
  • Housing replaced with more accurate assets in Alloa and Stirling.
  • Removal of trees adjacent to Alloa platform (happened IRL very recently).
  • X50 boards added between Stirling and Bridge Of Allan.
  • Mileposts added throughout every quarter of a mile.
  • Missing scenery items added.
  • Wrongly positioned signals corrected.

15/03/2024:

  • Missing lamppost textures added.
  • Terrain colour in various places modified.
  • Changed night lighting at Haymarket and Edinburgh. (More FPS friendly)
  • Removed unrequired lofts.

14/03/2024:

  • Adjusted the name of the route in-game. (This fixes problems taking screenshots… yes, it’s true!).
  • Added missing bridge occlusions between Larbert and Dunblane/Alloa.
  • Points near Glasgow Queen Street fixed (previously unrendered).
  • Adjusted night lighting at some stations.
  • Fixed terrain clipping Platform 1 at Polmont.

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Well well well… it’s finally here! Not in its entirety, but certainly the bulk of the
fantastic work. Enough to tucker you out driving 385s. Or 365s (woop woop) or
380s (upgrade when?).

With the recent arrival of the much anticipated ATS Class 385 Upgrade, we have decided to release Network ScotEast in 2 parts.
Part 1 (THIS), will cover all electrified areas of the route, so from Edinburgh to Glasgow (via both Falkirk High and Falkirk Grahamston), and Glasgow to Alloa and Dunblane.

This will enable you guys in the wonderful TS Community to enjoy and create a plethora of scenarios to use with the excellent 385 upgrade.

The unelectrified areas (Fife Circle, Longannet branch, and up to Ladybank and Leven) will form Part 2, which is yet to be completed. When Part 2 is complete, it will release as a FULL route which can go over the top of Part 1 and form the entire Network as originally intended.

More information can be found in the Manual. Please ensure you read it in it’s entireity.

REQUIREMENTS:

I cannot stress enough the importance of ensuring you have ALL requirements listed. Particularly the Signal EP, and the Signal EP patch. Without these you will have problems with signals not behaving as intended.

STEAM (DTG/RSC etc):
ECMLS London to Peterborough
Edinburgh to Glasgow (Original)
Fife Circle
GEML London to Ipswich
Glasgow to Dunblane & Alloa
Liverpool to Manchester
Portsmouth Direct Line
South Wales Mainline (Unbranded version)
Suburban Glasgow Northwest
SWML Southampton to Bournemouth
WCML Trent Valley
MARKETPLACE: Town Pack

ARMSTRONG POWERHOUSE:
Common Library (Comes with most AP addons)
Signal Enhancement Pack
Vegetation Enhancement Pack

ALAN THOMSON SIMULATION:
Common Library (Comes with any ATS route)
OHLE Pack
Kings Cross to Kings Lynn
Chat Moss
South Wales Mainline Modern
Rigid OHLE Pack
Glasgow Dunblane Signal/Weather EP Patch * MUST INSTALL including after reinstall/updating route *

JUST TRAINS:
Common Library (Comes with JT routes – recommend their most recent ones)
Scottish East Coast Main Line

ON TRACK SIMULATIONS:
4AS Signage Pack

INSTALLATION:

Copy the Assets and Content folders into your main Railworks directory. If you are asked to overwrite anything then select YES.

Then navigate to your Assets folder and run the ‘NSE Lampposts.bat‘ batch file.

SCENARIOS:

This route comes with two basic scenarios:

1R80 1515 Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh
2P41 1338 Edinburgh – Dunblane

These scenarios are only basic scenarios and don’t have extensive AI traffic, as they are intended as just ‘something to drive’ scenarios, and do not have announcements included. The only AI in these scenarios are strictly Class 385 operations.
This leaves a wide open space for the wonderful Train Sim Community to create more fun and extensive scenarios.

You must have the ATS Class 385 Upgrade to use these scenarios.

CREDITS:

Clowes = Manual typesetting, lamppost reskins, custom posters, and general support.
Alan Thomson = Promotion and support.
Bulent Eroglu = For allowing use of Assets from SWML route.
Jake Fuller = For swapping out the track to ATS track (about 100 years ago!)

THE NSE TEAM:
Cameron Forbes
Matt Gooderson
Ollie Greenhalgh
Chris Horsfield
Thomas King
Aaron Pidduck
Thomas Poole

Thanks and enjoy!