This route (Suburban Glasgow: North Clyde Lines to Edinburgh) brings you an upgraded version of the North Clyde Lines as available on Steam, and an upgraded version of the original Bathgate Extension previously made by AGD… oh wait that’s me!

About the Route:

This route is the updated version of the previously released AGD Suburban Glasgow Bathgate Extension which contains a plethora of improvements over the entire route. Spanning from Helensburgh to Edinburgh, an end to end run covers nearly 68 miles of track. The improvements to this route include various scenery and housing updates, vegetation revamps, ground texture updates, station clutter updates, signalling fixes and many more changes.

The route includes: the namesake route between Helensburgh Central and Edinburgh, the line up to Helensburgh Upper, The Balloch Branch, the Milngavie branch and the Springburn branch. The route integrates the NCL Updated route and is intended as a replacement for it. A guide for scenario creators will be provided later on in the manual for making old scenarios for the NCL Updated route compatible with this version as it uses the same route folder. For reference, the route is set in 2024, but is accommodating to scenarios both before and after this.

If you’ve previously had the Bathgate Extension installed, you may be curious to know what has changed. Below is a list:

• Lineside vegetation updates across the whole route
• Lineside housing upgrades across the North Clyde section and parts of the Bathgate Extension
• Texture Upgrades to the whole route  
• New custom buildings, walls and bridges added across the route 
• Extra detailing and scenery updates in areas I felt it was lacking
• Scenery updates to the Bathgate Extension section of the route
• Station clutter updates, these are fairly minor but there are some noticeable differences
• Signal updates (+ the fixing of my problem child signal at Newbridge Junction)
• AI Horns Implementation
• Sodium Vapour Lighting added at relevant stations   
• And much much more

The project started well over a year ago as a learning project for myself, and as I learned a lot in my time working on payware projects since, I decided this release could do with a bit of TLC, hence why it’s being re-released as this. Despite this, the route is still built to be viewed from the cab, and as such you may experience unintended visual effects if you view too far from the lineside.  

There is further scope for extending parts of it in the future, but I will not be revealing any details of this until anything is ready. 

The route has a number of requirements, and though I intend to reduce this list in the future, it is imperative that you have all of these routes and asset packs installed. Support will not be provided to anyone who doesn’t have all the requirements. 

REQUIREMENTS:

This has been split into a “Most Important” and an “All Other Section”. For clarity sake, the Most Important are the requirements with which any further work will be done and restricted to, All Other refers only to the North Clyde to Edinburgh Section. This was simply down to accidental addition of requirements during the process of development

Most Important:

• Suburban Glasgow Northwest + Airdrie Extension (Base Route)
• DTG Huddersfield Line
• Thomson Interactive Glasgow to Dunblane and Alloa
• DTG Fife Circle
• ATS OHLE Pack
• ATS Common Library
• Thomson Interactive Trent Valley
• WCML North
• Just Trains Hope Valley Line or/and any UK Based Just Trains Addon Released Afterwards (This ensures you have the latest Common Library required for Lamp Posts and Clutter Items) MUST COME FROM THE JT WEBSITE
• DTG WCML South

All Other

• DTG Southampton to Bournemouth
• DTG Portsmouth Direct
• DTG ECML South
• 4AS Signage Pack
• AP Common Library
• DTG South Wales Coastal Unbranded  
• DTG Liverpool to Manchester
• Thomson Interactive Edinburgh to Glasgow

TEMPORARY REQUIREMENT:

• MaxTracks Leeds North Western 

This is a temporary requirement of the route as we still await some custom assets from Max. As the styles are similar to what’s being made, some standins have been used for certain council housing and flat buildings. Updates will be posted on the AGDevelopment Facebook Page on when this requirement gets removed. 

SCENARIO REQUIREMENTS:

A number of scenarios have also been included, both newly made and adjusted scenarios from my old North Clyde Lines Scenario packs. Note: Out of the box scenarios on the site for the old North Clyde Lines updated route will need adjusted in order to work on this version of the route, and a guide for this has been included in the route manual.

The requirements of the included scenarios are listed below:

• AP 318 EMU Pack
• AP 321 EMU Pack
• AP 156 DMU Pack
• AP MTU Pack
• AP 800 EP
• AP 170 EP
• AP 158 Perkins EP
• AP 66 EP V2
• AP SWEP V2
• AP Signal EP 
• DTG WCML South
• ATS Class 385 Upgrade + Dependencies
• CAH Scotrail Stock Pack V3.5

ROUTE INSTALLATION:

1. Extract the Assets and Contents folder and move them to your Railworks directory OVERWRITE ALL WHEN ASKED
2. Go to your assets folder and run NSELampposts.bat

The route is named “[AGD Suburban Glasgow] North Clyde Lines to Edinburgh” in game. 

If you are experiencing signal problems, please try re-installing the Signal EP

If you do not have lamp posts, and you have followed the above instructions, please re-install your latest JT Product from the Just Trains Website (The Steam version is an older version and will not work). THIS WILL NOT FUNCTION WITH JT PRODUCTS FROM STEAM

CREDITS:

Agdron: Lead Developer, Project Manager, creator of the original Bathgate extension and responsible for the majority of the scenery upgrades across the route.

Sean Gallagher: Literally a wizard, merged Edinburgh onto the route and has laid and re-laid track in various places, most notably between Livingston North and Newbridge Junction

Chris Horsfield: Signal man, did the station clutter on the North Clyde Lines (which I then went in and changed, probably much to his dismay) and also had an exploded computer.

MaxTracks: gifting the footbridge kit to the route, and being willing to pay me in housing and wall assets. Without him the route would not have been able to capture the feel I had been aiming to capture.

Iain Mackay (Suburban Glasgow): being supportive of the Bathgate Extension project and being the original routebuilder of the Suburban Glasgow project. I hope he enjoys the route in its current state should he choose to one day drive down it.

Also a special thanks to Alan Thomson of ATS for support, advice, and patience while I messed about and broke things and putting up with the really random stuff I say sometimes. 

Another thanks should go out to all who have tested the route for me!

Thank you to everyone else who has supported me on this project, and hopefully you can all enjoy the end product.

Disclaimer: You may not redistribute these files in any way shape or form without my permission. You are also not permitted to use this route in any merge or upgrade without permission (from Agdron for this version)

UPDATE LOG:

21/03/2026: Log for every fix done before this date: Missing DOO monitors replaced with temporary blue ones. Scenery bits fixed. Missing custom joint blueprints added to assets folder.

 

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