West Coast Mainline (WCML) Northwest and Scotland – Preston to Glasgow & Edinburgh
25th January 2019WEST COAST MAINLINE – NORTH WEST AND SCOTLAND – V1.2 (03 AUG 2018)
This route is a direct merge of WCML North, WCML Over Shap and the DPS Edinburgh to Glasgow scenery extension to Carstairs > https://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/edinburghglasgow.html
I’d love to hear constructive feedback or thoughts on this. I can be contacted on [email protected] or through my page for my other WCML route https://www.facebook.com/WCMLMidlandsandNorthwestRoute/
About this release;
I should mention that this is not really meant to be a ‘serious addition’ to the train sim content available as it was done as an academic exercise to see whether or not it was possible to merge two routes with different origins.
I initially messed about with some game files to get a big Midlands station into another route as a template and then one thing has led to another. In the end this is actually a merge of three routes.
IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE
The main route is WCML North. Therefore other DLC which is built for WCML North will work with this route. The only exception is ANYTHING which affects the Tracks.bin file – Track upgrades probably work but edit this file at your own risk. Upgrades for WCML Over Shap or the DPS route will not import into this route. By all means request that I add them to a future release and I will see what I can do.
Bad points
It has been built on the AP track enhancement so if you don’t have this pack installed the track may look a little clunky in places.
Just north of Carstairs on the way to Edinburgh there is a pretty obvious track texture change and the OHLE height changes.
The MixMap (terrain textures) are not 100% lined up just north of Carlisle.
By today’s route standards the lineside on both routes is a little dated. There is no superelevation on the portion north of Carlisle.
The area just south of Carlisle is not perfect. This is the joint between the two routes and required rebuilding.
This is a 220 mile route plus all the suburban bits around Glasgow. It MAY NOT BE STABLE in 32 bit Train Simulator. It should be OK in 64 bit.
Good points;
There is now much more route to drive at once. 193 miles between Preston and Glasgow and 190 miles between Preston and Edinburgh.
I have removed quite a lot of ‘stuff’ which affects route performance so it should run a little better.
Once my other project which concerns the WCML is done I shall look to add that to this route.
It’s free but donations are more than welcome and go to developing other train sim things.
SCENARIOS
If you make a scenario for this route and would like it hosting somewhere – please get in touch.
CREDITS
Danny from ‘Danny’s Route Photography’ page on Facebook for lots of support and advice.
Alan Thomson – without his group and YouTube videos to get me through various night shifts where I have been doing train sim things, I think I would have gone loopy by now. I would wholeheartedly recommend his group on Facebook > and his YouTube Channel
Ash Lightfoot and Dom Cazaux – for general encouragement and support.
My Uncle Tim and a family friend Tony, for a lot of advice and help on the programming side of this.
Thanks
Pete
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS;
Copy the ‘Content’ folder into your TSX directory.
Usually this is found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\RailWorks
REQUIREMENTS
WCML North
WCML Over Shap
Edinburgh to Glasgow (for the Edinburgh bit)
WEATHER / SKIES
To use the AP weather and skies as default in QD scenarios, open the “RouteProperties AP Weather” folder and copy the “Content” folder into your Train Simulator directory.
You need;
AP Wherry Lines
RSC GEML (Great Eastern Mainline: London to Ipswich),
for this to work.
Given the passing of Nick Hudson just before Christmas 2020, I think it would be nice to, as a tribute, add his Windermere extension directly onto the route. This would also give options for activities (rare though they may be) that originate from Windermere and head to the north towards Glasgow. Freight activities might be able to use this, though passenger lines I highly doubt would take that path.
Wow! I like this route! Nice that I can drive all the way from Preston to Glasgow.
Although, I would like to know how to get to Edinburgh in Quick Drive. I can’t see the destination available in the quick drive menu. Does anyone know what to do or have any suggestions?
Thanks! 😉
Amazing Route! but I have noticed that in the tunnels of wcml north there is no ambient occlusion, does anyone know why?
hi, i have noticed platform 12 at Edinburgh has invisible track from the points to about half way down p12 is there any of this being fixed
I think the game will be good
I hop the game will be good
hi I’ve noticed other commented but I’ve just downloaded the route and also cant seem to go to Edinburgh in quickdrive? I have the dps extension route so don’t know what I’m missing can anyone please help?
just to update ive managed to fix the issue thanks anyway
what was the solution out of interest, as I’ve got the same problem? Thanks
What did you do fix it, i have the same problem
how did you manage to fix this issue?
HELLO
i hve downloaded this route est Coast Mainline (WCML) Northwest and Scotland – Preston to Glasgow & Edinburghi cant see any signal in this route can you help me out
There’s currently a problem with the UK LED signals regarding the DRM to Steam. You are likely to see Milk Bottles in place of signalling and AWS equipment on many routes such as London to Brighton and WCML Over Shap. DTG are aware of this, hopefully a fix will be issued next week. Please hold tight!
Class 91 Scenario has some errors when loading from waverley to glasgow cent.
Finally I can do Edinburgh to Glasgow without changing routes! Thanks!
Some track seems to be missing on the Windermere branch .The unit quit happly continued over the missing track to oxenholme .
Great route but Why am I not getting Edinburgh in quick drive menu despite having all required DLC installed?
Great work do love this route, however i have noticed i can’t seem to get to Edinburgh From Either Glasgow or Preston any idea on what is going?
Everything seems to be floating above the ground… i have Wherry lines but not the AP version, is this the problem or have a loaded something incorrect . Any help would be appreciated
TIA
Excellent work, i love this route! You should add track elevation all along this route, this would be fine! 😉