South Eastern Branch Line V1

Route Name = South Eastern Branch Line V1



Route Author = Andrew Hardy

Route Location = Fictional south eastern branch line

Route Mileage = TBC

Route Era = late 1800s to early 1900s

Route Source = from UKTS downloading at UKTrainSim.

Additional files required to be installed =

UKFineScale

Route Description =
An MSTS fictional route available to download as noted above.

Activities and relevant stock may be available from the UKTS library.

“This is a short fictional branch line designed to give a South Eastern feel for all Southern Fans.”

Whilst "rooting" about I came across a document describing the installation of South Eastern Branch Line V1. Unfortunately I could find the item within UKTS, and I have therefore shortened the document and include it as a reply to the original entry. I very much hope that this is acceptable and should an objection be raised I can easily delete it, although I don't see any reason why one would.

South Eastern Branch Line
A fictional South Eastern railway Branch. It is aimed to give a light railway/branch line feel for all Southern Fans.
By Andrew Hardy

Download Details
Before you begin, make sure you have got UKFinescale track installed.
You will also need to have Winzip 8.1, or newer, you can download this from http://www.winzip.com/. Other unzip tools will probably not work with this archive due to its creation as a "spanned zip".
Now you need to download all parts of the archive as per RD entry:

When downloaded you will have:

UKTS_11521_South Eastern Branch Line.zip
UKTS_11522_South Eastern Branch Line.z01
UKTS_11524_South Eastern Branch Line.z02
UKTS_11525_South Eastern Branch Line.z03
UKTS_11528_South Eastern Branch Line.z04

The first thing you need to do is make sure Windows isn't hiding anything - with these filenames that do not end in a ZIP or EXE extension, Internet Explorer has a tendency to automatically (and silently) add one on; which will make our lives a lot harder. Go in to Windows Explorer, click on 'Tools' and then 'Folder Options' and select the 'View' tab.
Now look for 'Hide Extensions for Known Filetypes' - if this is ticked then CLEAR it, it's a big pain!
Now, re-check your files and verify they are the same as shown above, if they are not then remove any additional extensions that might have appeared so they match what is above.
Next we need to rename the files, so remove the UKTS_11521_ bit (changing the number appropriately) so you have just got the South Eastern Branch Line bit before the extension; you should end up with:

South Eastern Branch Line.zip
South Eastern Branch Line.z01
South Eastern Branch Line.z02
South Eastern Branch Line.z03
South Eastern Branch Line.z04

Now you can double click on South Eastern Branch Line.zip and extract the file to your Train Simulator 'routes' folder. By default this folder is in C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT GAMES\TRAIN SIMULATOR\ROUTES. However you can change this to suit your own set up.
When you unzip it, Winzip will extract ALL of the files automatically.
Once the files have been unzipped to the right place you should go in to the routes folder and find the new 'South Eastern Branch Line' folder. Inside that you will see 'installme.bat'. You should double click on this file as this copies a number of required objects from the six default MSTS routes along with copying some of the objects internally around in the route folders - this optimisation is performed prior to upload in order to save download size as much as possible.
You should see a black DOS/Command box pop up for a little while copying files, messages should appear along the lines of:
.\Textures\Snow\IJ_tree3.ace
1 File(s) copied
.\Textures\Snow\IJ_tree5.ace
1 File(s) copied
.\Textures\Snow\IJ_tree7.ace
1 File(s) copied
.\Textures\Snow\pillbox1.ace
1 File(s) copied
.\Textures\Snow\pillbox2.ace
1 File(s) copied
If you see '0 File(s) copied' then this means you do not have some of the required routes installed - please re-verify that you have all six default routes installed.
Once the installme.bat has finished it will close and your route is now ready to run!

Patches
Unofficial Patch for South Eastern Branchline [49817 bytes] - SEB_Haystack_replacement.zip
File ID: 11536 Date: 06 Feb 2005 - 403 Downloads

Suggested Rolling Stock
SE & CR O1 [1414336 bytes] - SECRO1.zip
File ID: 10054 Date: 27 Aug 2004 - 1177 Downloads

SECR P class 0-6-0 No 27 [407646 bytes] - SECRP.zip
File ID: 4819 Date: 12 Feb 2003 - 1017 Downloads

SECR 3 Coach 'A' Set [1654562 bytes] - SECRASET.zip
File ID: 11410 Date: 24 Jan 2005 - 829 Downloads

SE&CR Wagon Set [1026459 bytes] - secrwagons.zip
File ID: 10871 Date: 25 Nov 2004 - 757 Downloads

SR (Late) Ex SECR 50ft [1295965 bytes] - SRaSET.zip
File ID: 11624 Date: 16 Feb 2005 - 2225 Downloads

There is also a matching brake van for the wagons from Decapod's web site:
http://www31.brinkster.com/decapod