Western Main Lines Electrification Project – Phase 1
2nd June 2021The Evolution of Great Western Simulation
Drive an Electric Class 800 from London Paddington all the way out to Bristol!
or take a Class 387 Electrostar from Didcot to London!
Western Main Lines Electrification Project aims to Electrify the whole of Western Main Lines!
Currently, Electrification goes out to Bristol via Bath
NOTE: OHLE is not in most places. There are some places, but most do not. by Release Canidate, we aim to have it in as Many Places Possible. However, you can still drive a Electric Train to Bristol.
Future:
Electrification to Penzance
OHLE Expansion
Electrification to Cardiff
Extension to Swansea (Maybe)
Electrification to Oxford
3rd Rail Electrification to Bicester (I know this is not true to life, but given the 2 above sections are not electrifed in Real Life, this is how I see it being)
This Route Needs
Western Main Lines + All the Extensions (Important) and its dependencies
London – Faversham (for OHLE. route will work without, but you will have no OHLE)
The only Scenarios included are test Scenarios. I aim to have normal scenarios at Full Release
I have all the dependencies but the route has no OHLE?
The wires still don’t go past Hayes & Harlington. I do have Steam London – Faversham, any ideas?
Do you require the OHLE pack from Alan Thompson Sim for this modified route to work properly? Because I’ve tried the route and much of the electrification around Bristol and other areas are missing.
The wires still don’t go past Hayes & Harlington. I do have Steam London – Faversham, any ideas?
Not working for me 🙁
Is this route Quick drive enabled because if not then needs to be.
YEAH ITS NOT LETTING ME DOWNLOAD THIS please fix i want to use this route it wont let me checkout !
Don’t know why, but for some reason this isn’t working for me.. I have the OHLE, all the Western Mainline routes, and the appropriate requirements installed, yet the OHLE doesn’t appear on the route..
Not meaning to sound pushy or anything but we really really really need this with the imminent release of the AP 800’s!
I really hope you’ve got all your PC issues sorted out and we get an update from you guys soon.
Thanks for your hard work guys.
The Website for the Hornsey Studios TFL Rail benches is gone…
The TFL Rail benches are NOT needed for this route.
I can confirm that I am alive. Being one of the lead devs of this route, I have contact with the main project manager and he said that we will release Phase 3 instead – Likely electrification down to cardiff – plus if we figure it out maybe if you lot are lucky a swansea extension
Really happy to hear that it’s still in development, I was a little concerned that it’d been dropped if I’m honest.
One thing I would say is that the planned electrification from Canton to Swansea was cancelled by the Welsh government in 2017, it’s fine by me and of course entirely up to all of you if you choose to continue it down to Swansea, but I’d also recommend (and hope) that you also release a version that has the OHLE catenary end at Canton TMD as that would be the version I’d prefer to play.
Thanks for doing this project.
Hi Everyone. I know I am late to announce this but 1 Day before we were going to submit the updated file to ATS for release, the PC we have developed this on, suffered a bad PSU. As this PC has a Dedicated GPU we have had to order a powerful one and because of the Supply Issues going on in the UK at the moment and the Postage Delays that is easier said than done. We ended up ordering one that arrives next week. This route will hopefully be released in before December.
may i ask when does the Western Main Lines Electrification Project – Phase 2 today.
Hi. Sorry about the Delay. The PC that Phase 2 was being developed for suffered a broken power supply 🙁 so the route has been delayed 🙁 I will update about this when the new PSU comes
looking forward to Phase 2 of the Western Main Lines Electrification Project tomorrow 5th November 2021
Hi. Sorry about the Delay. The PC that Phase 2 was being developed for suffered a broken power supply 🙁 so the route has been delayed 🙁 I will update about this when the new PSU comes
The Good News:
The PSU Arrived and Works.
The Bad News:
One of the RAM sticks has died and left us with only 2 GB RAM, no where near enough to test and confirm the route before release.
So here we go again…
Sorry for the long wait.
Being part of the Development Team, I can say why Phase 2 is taking so long.
1. We did submit a Phase 2 to ATS, but we never heard back about them, never saw it on the product page, nothing, even after follow-ups. It contained Cardiff-Bristol Parkway Electrification and Bristol-Exeter Electrification.
2. Because Exeter has the Crossover to the South Devon Main Line extension, It appears that JustTrains used a different track rule in random parts of the route, which makes editing properties for electrification much harder and we were supposed to get to Penzance by August.
3. We had other projects. Around the same time, we were working on a now cancelled South Western Expressways + Western Main Lines merge which was causing issues.
Now, work is scheduled to resume next week on Electrification down to Plymouth for Phase 2 – Take 2.
We are also adding in the OHLE between Bristol Parkway and Cardiff.
Hi. I helped work on this. Were you able to continue to reading? The Team behind this route knows that the route has no OHLE for the most part. It is only in the Alpha/Beta Stage. When the route is complete, there will be OHLE in all the electrifed areas. And, by Ground Textures, what do you mean? Before this version was submitted to ATS, a full run from Bristol to London Paddington was conducted. It sounds like your issue is a JT problem. Keep in mind that this route needs all the requirements that Western Main Lines needs, so it sounds like you do not have the Europeon Loco and Asset Pack. You also need the Original DTG/Kuju GWML London – Oxford Route. If you like, I can do another full run of this route. Missing ground textures are a Problem with Western Main Lines itself, not this Project
PLZ
I’ve been waiting for someone to run a project for the GWML down to Bristol at least in order to run the IET’s – it was that or waiting for a proper class 800 to be released.
I shall be following this project with keen interest – so thanks to the project team for picking this up.
You are in luck – Phase 2 November 5th. Be ready
Ok so,
there’s a lot of mistakes on your route that you have published don’t take this as rude but it is shocking I drove from London Paddington to reading and only half the Electrification showed up it was only until Slough where it stopped but it still made me driving a class 800 without over head wires as electric and the ground textures don’t show up either (I do have all the requirements) because its a shame this could have a potential but no OHLE.