Hello, all! Lately, I have been working on a rail line very dear to my heart, the West Wales Line. It runs for 115 miles from Swansea to Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Fishguard Harbour. The line features some interesting aspects such as an interesting sea wall between Llanelli and Pembrey and bury port. Here is the thumbnail of the route (subject to change) This is the line in its entirety. And this is the line so far in Train Sim (out of date, trackwork is now complete) I hope to Upload the route once its done on ATS and/or Train Sim Community. Not sure which one I will upload it to but if anyone has any experience in this sort of thing please reply to this thread. I will post further updates as I develop the route further!
*UPDATE* I have been working had on track laying and I have layed the tracks as far as Carmarthen! The route is coming a long very nicely and I hope to finish track-laying in maybe a 1-2 weeks! Unfortunately, I don't have any signal diagrams for the route so I might have to wait to see if I can get hold of one. If anyone knows a good signal diagram that includes the West Wales Lines, please reply to this thread. That would be a great help. Anyway here's the route map so far: This has Carmarthen at the top and Gowerton at the bottom. I forgot to mention aswell, this is my first route, so don't expect anything amazing. I was just amazed when I first played train sim that there was no West Wales Line, considering Pembrokeshire's amazing beauty, which I hope to capture within this route.
*UPDATE* I working hard keeping up production of the route and I am proud to say I have reached Milford Haven with the track-laying! work has started for the Pembroke & Tenby branch to Pembroke Dock, and, after that, the Fishguard Harbour branch. I hope to complete the track work in maybe a week and maybe a full beta release in 4-6 months! As I've said before, I don't have any signal diagrams and I only have a cab view up to Carmarthen so signals will probably be completely correct up to Carmarthern and then they will be guesswork based on Google Maps with AWS ramps and the time the signal was implemented. I do, however, have a sectional appendix which is extremely helpful. Here's the route map for today. I am going away for a few days after this so production may slow down but will still be happening in the backround. I've added a pole at the top so, if you wouldn't mind, just select your answer to the quetions! Thanks for reading, Anson
I remember the area for the only mono-lingual road sign I have seen in Wales for more than 40 years - it was a directional sign that read "Texaco Refinery".
*UPDATE* Hi guys! As I said in my previous post, I am very sorry about the lack of updates. But, today is the day we get another update! As you know, I've been working hard on the track laying and you also know I have layed the track to Milford Haven and started work on the Pembroke Dock branch. Well, now, I have completed the line as far as Tenby! Here is the route map so far and it seems, to me, to be coming along better than I thought! I hope to get another update out this week with the Pembroke Dock branch complete! Work will then start on the line to Fishguard Harbour, and, once that is complete, the signalling! Anyway, Thanks for Reading!
*UPDATE* Been working hard and layed the track to Pembroke Dock! It might take 3 or 4 days to complete the track - laying and then we'll see how it goes from there! I'll definately be posting development screenshots when I start scenery!
*UPDATE* Hello, everyone! I'm glad to announce today that the track laying is now complete! It took a few days longer than expected but it is complete now. Please note, the track around swansea is not the track from South Wales Coastal. The track around Swansea is now much better, more realistic and in line with the modern track layout. With the track being laid, the West Wales Line is now finally in Train Sim Classic in a non-scenic, non-signalled state. I hope you are excited for this route and thanks for reading.
Just a quick one today. I am excited to share more development photos! This is the bit around Cockett on Day 3 (ignore the broken shadows, I have fixed that) And this is the same area on Day 4 (of scenery production) I hope that you think this looks acceptable. If anyone has any tips, I'd be happy to take them on.
Sorry about the lack of updates for a while. Here is just a quick development screenshot of an area I am happy with: I am currently using the VP track at the minute but I may change it to the AP track EP before the route releases. I hope you like the look of the route so far. If you have any tips, feel free to tell me.
*UPDATE* Hello, Everybody! It is a bit of sad news today... I came to work on the route today when I got an 'Out of Memory' error with a failure in blueprint loading. At the minute, the future of the route looks uncertain. I will update you again in 3 days and if the issue does not resolve, I will have to cancel the project. However, if the issue gets ressolved, and I will do everything I can to get it ressolved, I will update the fourm immediatly including after the 3 day period. I am sorry on the unfortuante news today but if you do know how to resolve this, please head other to a seperate forum here. Thanks for reading, Anson
Hello all, I have a way of trying to fix the route so it will hopefully be fixed when I actually have to fix it..
*UPDATE* Hello, all! Today, I have amazing news! After a complete reinstall of the game, I have got the route working again. Here is route so far. That bridge you see there is where the SWC track ends. Past that, is completly new track (apart from Matthew Powell's Heart of Wales line Modern route which you can no longer download. luckily I have a backup of both of his welsh routes). I have had to relay a bit of track around Swansea because the tracks were different heights. Thanks for reading, Anson
*UPDATE* Hello, all, If you didn't already know, I am quite young (not even GCSE age!) so I do have some school exams coming that need revising for. Luckily, this week is half term at my school so production of the route will still be going on. I recently purchased the AP MML EP which includes some stunning vegetation from the Vegatation EP which I don't own so I am using lots of those at the minute along with the stunning VP Tree Pack V2. I have revised a bit of the area above and here it is: Note the brilliant AP MTU HST. Thanks for reading, Anson
*IMPORTANT* Hello all, If you didn't know already, Wotawally's Bits is closing in July, Unfortunately, I am using some of there assets. I know they are extremely old and I am only using them mostly as distant assets. Anyway, if you haven't already, please make your way over to their website and download all the assets. I am not using all of them but would be helpful the have all of them. When the route route releases, I'll see if I can get permission to include Wotawally's assets in the download. Thanks for reading, Anson
Hello, everyone! I have done a lot of work this morning. I am loving how this is coming along and I am intrigued to see what you think. Here are some development screenshots: Thank you so much for reading, Anson
Hello, all, Lately, I've been looking down the route and found that I have built the track wrong from Clunderwen to Milford Haven / Fishguard Harbour. Because of this, I've started to relay the track from there. I hope to complete this in maybe a week or longer. As a result of this, I'm stopping scenery work until I have relayed all the track as that is higher priority! Sorry for this news, Anson
