West Coast Mainline South v5.3
18th July 2020Included in this update.
Missing electrification has been added to sidings at Wolverton, Coventry and Kings Heath (Northampton).
Platform 10 at Watford Junction has been extended to accommodate a 12car Class 350.
Platforms at Birmingham New Street have been re-modelled.
Configuration corrections have been applied to a small number of signals.
New RTT and fictional scenarios added.
Dependency removed for GARL (Glasgow Airport Rail Link), IOW (Island Line), Hamburg-Hanover and the Virtual District Line.
The Virtual District Line 73refurb tube stock (as a substitute for Bakerloo line 72 stock) is now included in this update.
Route and scenario documentation has been updated and all download hyperlinks are working at the time of this publication.
General polish & tidy up.
Now zipped as a single download, which includes a patch for Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack owners.
IMPORTANT ! The previously available Update pack01 and Scenario Repack have both been incorporated into this update and MUST NOT be reinstalled.
Recommended minimum requirements: Train Simulator 64 bit, 8GB RAM.
(Will run small scenarios in 32-bit with 4Gb RAM)
The route covers London Euston to Birmingham New Street, including the Northampton Loop.
The DC lines from Euston to Watford Junction including the Bakerloo Line underground section from Queens Park to Elephant and Castle.
Requirements
ESSENTIAL FOR ROUTE: (Must be installed prior to installation)
Steam: London to Brighton
Steam: Woodhead Line (original)
Steam: West Coast Main Line Trent Valley
Steam: Liverpool to Manchester
JustTrains: Newcastle to Edinburgh
UKTS: Freeware Pack Clutter
Steam: European Loco & Asset Pack. This is included with many routes, including the Woodhead Line (original)
ESSENTIAL FOR SCENARIOS (Must be installed prior to installation)
If you don’t have these installed, the included scenarios will fail to load correctly.
Steam: Class 390 EMU Add-On (original release)
DPSimulation: Class 390 ‘Virgin’ reskin by Horgy
JustTrains: Voyager Advanced 2019
These items must be present before installation to allow “No Driver/No passenger” patches to be applied.
(Many thanks to Leander Iversen for permission to include these patches)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: (highly recommended scenery items)
Steam: Edinburgh to Glasgow
Steam: ECMLS (London-Peterborough)
Steam: Riviera Line
Steam: WCML2 (over Shap)
Steam: WCML North
UKTS Freeware Pack Blocks and Lofts
UKTS Freeware Pack Clutter
UKTS Freeware Pack Railway Buildings
UKTSFile ID: 26602 & 26550 Enviro Bus packs
UKTSFile ID: 30717 DAF LF pack
UKTSFile ID: 30832 Transmission Lines
UKTSFile ID: 30726 Telegraph pole Lofts V1.1
(Updated download links can be found for all of these requirements in the enclosed documentation.)
Scenarios
A selection of scenarios written by Colin Izatt (including 3 new ones), plus a number of fictional scenarios.
Requirement for these can be found in the enclosed “Scenarios” folder as pdf documents.
A Free Roam scenario starting at London Euston with a selection of default electric and diesel traction, giving you the choice to explore the route in it’s entirety.
The route is also Quick Drive enabled with a broad selection of starting locations including the DC lines.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please read the README.pdf first before installing the route.
Run the WCMLSv5.3.exe and follow the instructions.
A patch is included for Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack owners (recommended).
More information is available in the documentation.
CREDITS
Many thanks to all who have contributed, helped and given advice during the making of this route.
Including:
Members of the The Virtual District Line team for permission to include their LU 73stock.
David Scott. Original version of the route.
Colin Izatt. Scenarios and extensive help with Beta testing.
Martin Masterson. Help and Beta testing.
Leander Iversen. Permission to include his No Driver patches for the Horgy 390 Virgin reskin & JT Voyager Advanced.
Jack Sherriff. Information and photos of the LNR & WMR corporate liveries.
Steve Green and Paul Jennings. Help and advice on signals and signage.
Gary Padley. Permission to include his assets.
Joseph Pearson. Permission to use one of his track assets.
For those looking for the bottom 3 UKTS files they can be found on SimTogether:
https://simtogether.com/files/file/276-daf-lf-pack/
https://simtogether.com/files/file/730-electricity-transmission-lines/
https://simtogether.com/files/file/394-telegraph-poles-8-wire-loft/
You need an account on their website to download btw.
I’m not sure where the enviro bus packs are so I’m assuming they were built by a dev purely on UKTS (If anyone has info feel free to reply to this comment).
hi alex,first of all,you did an excellent job on this route,any idea”s why the class 68 scenario”s wont load,i followed the read me & downloaded & installed the stobart & co2 wagons from dps but scenario still fails to load up,many thanks.
Any chance for an ap Signal update for this route?
hey so i have a very slight issue with the route the tunnels are not loading in, i just wanted to know if i am missing a freeware pack or a payware route i have all the routes required except the original woodhead line is this the problem? sorry if i sound like a fool
Yes you definitely need the original Woodhead line for the route to function correctly. Will be on a Steam sale soon enough am sure!
Amazing route this, one of the best out there.
why my bakerloo line has no wall on the staiton????????????????????????????????????????????
Why all the question marks? It’s a FREEWARE route, so have some manners and you may get some support.
Blud stfu u melt “have some manners” it isn’t like he’s swearing at u is it, easily offended
Thanks for the hard work and countless time spent on this route, one of the very best on Train Simulator and easily outshines some you have to pay money for! To be honest, I can’t think of one that is better.
However, I have hit a snag on the DC lines. I’m currently writing a scenario for the route and found that (as yet) there’s no turnback siding at Harrow & Wealdstone. There is clearly one in reality (Google Earth shows it) and obviously necessary with LU trains terminating there, but LO going through to Watford Junction. Can this be included in the next version please.
Ignore my query about H&W reversing siding: it’s there already! Not sure how I missed that – blind as a bat! My apologies.
Hi, there. I have installed all the essential requirements for this route & after a few attempts (no track is showing, but everything else is?. Do you know what the issue could be please?
Hi Guys.
Had this route about a month now and drove on it many times and i absoloutely love it but no matter what i try i dont get any AI pendolinos. I have installed the old steam 390 and reskins as advsised, reinstalled etc and i cant get them to show. I just get tons of london midland trains and cargo trains and tube trains near london. Please advise if possible _ Thanks Guys
Is this just when driving QD’s, or are they also missing from the included or 3rd party scenarios ?
Hi. Thank you for creating such an amazing route.
Please can I have some advice about this issue with loading the route? I have attached the pic here – https://ibb.co/Lk8bScL I have installed all the dependencies and the route multiple times and I would really appreciate any tips on where I might have gone wrong with the installation.
Thank you!
As mentioned in the emails I sent you. This is more than likely to be a missing scenario requirement, rather than a route installation/dependency problem. I would suggest double checking the scenario requirements 😉
press F2 then cancel and you can play the scenario without all the requirements
First of all, I am a German, so my English is not really perfect.
I’ve ridden the route several times now. I like it very much! One of the best freeware routes in TS.
But unfortunately there are a few problems.
In every station I am missing those green poles on which the signs are attached, on which the numbers of the platforms are attached.
I have installed everything that is needed and, according to RW Tools, the only thing thats missing is the Enviro bus.
In addition, the route always crashes in the same places. I have already tested it 5 times, as soon as I go to the outside view at Kings Langley station, I get a temp dump.
I hope someone can help me, because it would be a shame if I couldn’t drive such a beautiful route 🙂
If you could send an example screen capture of where the missing “green poles” are to [email protected] I will investigate.
The “Temp dump” you are experiencing at Kings Langley station when in outside view could be down to any number of reasons. I would simply suggest avoiding using outside views at this location.
This route is way better than the DTG Version.
Thanks 😉
Had a go on it and based on first impressions, you’ve definitely given the payware version a run for its money! Would I be able to use any of the custom assets that come with the route (for example, Birmingham’s Rotunda Building) in any freeware route projects I work on? In which case, I would list your route as a requirement (i.e. people would have to install your route in order for said assets to show up on whatever route I reference it in)
Custom assets from this route may be used for your own personal use or for any published FREEWARE route.
Please do not use any part of this route for PAYWARE projects.
Amazing route, great work. Do you have any contact details? Like Facebook? I need to have a word if thats fine.
[email protected]
Could someone be kind enough to tell me where I can the down load link for LT 73 DM so that I can run Bakerloo scenarios. Thank You
Sorted.
Regarding the dependencies, would it count if I got the Woodhead BR Blue version (given another freeware route requires that version of Woodhead) or do I have to purchase the original version of that DLC for the route to work?
Alas no. The Woodhead BR Blue version has it’s own (different) directory structure. The original Woodhead line has been around some time and is regularly available in the Steam sales. As I write this, it is available for a poultry £3.49 😉