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Great Western Mainline - BR Blue Period late 1970s to early 1980s

This Route is a modified version of the original Great Western Mainline Route designed to represent the "BR Blue" period from the late 70s to early 80s.

Many changes have been made, too many to list here in full, a summary of changes made to represent the "BR Blue Period" below -

All OHLE has been removed, North Pole and Old Oak Common depots removed/remodelled.

Reading and Oxford stations extensively re-modelled for the period.

Reading area remodelled with modern Business Parks removed and replaced with correct scenery for the period eg. Earley Power Station.

General removal of offices and business parks throughout the Route which were not in place during the period.

Modern mileposts/speed signs replaced by older versions.

NB. If you are driving using the HUD the upper speed limit will still appear as 125 MPH, track-side signs are correct for the period with upper speed being 100 MPH.

The screen shot is of the re-modelled Reading Station.

Update November 21st - The Route has been updated with several corrections and improvements, everybody who subscribed before this date should receive an automatic update - improvements include changes to various buildings, a crossover added to provide access to Reading 1,2 & 3 from the Basingstoke branch and various cosmetic scenery enhancements.

Final update November 22nd - Reading Western Tower rotated to face the right direction, terrain raised at Didcot and Southall to fix floating sidings.

NB. Requires the original Great Western Mainline.

The Quick Drive scenario may not be showing up, to remedy this please follow the instructions below -

From Main Menu

Build > Scenario > scroll down to route > click on route.

That brings up "QD Quick drive Scenario Paddington to Reading" > click on that.

Bottom right of screen is "Edit" > click on that.

When the scenario loads in the Editor just click on the triangle at the bottom right of the screen "Drive".

Please note - the Earley Power Station chimneys have smoke coming out of both the chimney tops and also a point around halfway up/down......it is impossible to correct this in a way to be compatible with the Workshop. A small patch is available here -

Update November 23rd - link changed to also include a correction to the length of platform 4 at Reading -

http://uploadfiles.eu/ficz08nhas9g/GWML-Blue_Patch_v1.rwp.html

Simply download the file and install it via the Package Manager, this will cause the smoke to appear from the correct places and platform 4 at Reading to be lengthened..


Andy

Update 09/12/14 - Three of us are currently working on extending my version of the GWML Route - we will be breaking new ground and extending first to Swindon and then we will decide our next direction. We are also setting this in the BR Blue Period.....we will publish updates at suitable intervals, the first will probably be a remodelling of the Didcot area to suit the BR Blue Period....all subscribers will receive updates automatically.