Expect this about November/December. Barmouth Extension news & screenshots
RUABON LLANGOLLEN BALA ROUTE (FICTIONAL)
This is a high detail route so is only really suitable for computers over 1 ghz
although I have run it on a 300 mhz one (What no telegraph poles). Yes there
are poles along the whole route.
This is my interpretation of the Ruabon Barmouth route and is not completly
accurate, not that you will notice though unless you are carrying out a
geological survey en-route.
It runs from just north of Ruabon station to Llanuwchllyn just south of
Llyn Tegid / Lake Bala including the start of the Blaenau branch from Bala
junction to Bala town, a route distance of 32 miles. After you leave the
Chester-Shrewsbury main line at Llangollen line junction the line is double track
for 6 miles to Llangollen goods junction where single line working commences.
All stations and halts are included and there is plenty of scope for goods traffic
especially at the three large yards at Ruabon Corwen and Bala Town.
I have tried to capture the feeling and beauty of the route within the obvious
restrictions of MS Train Simulator. The track layout is almost accurate (MSTS
restrictions excepted) apart from a missing slip point just north of Ruabon station
which the route editor just would not have (got round with two points). My thanks
go to Okrasa Ghia and his excellent Xtracks.
I have included three simple activities using default stock which allows exploration
of the whole line (lots of station stops)
Installation.
I have kept this as simple as possible apart from Xtracks 3.1 where you must read
the instructions before you install it (especially if you are writing a route). Once you
have installed Xtracks just copy the Llangollen folder to your route folder. You may
need to unpack the included activities, and that's it.
Until I complete the extension to Barmouth (the route editor allowing) I have
decided to refer to the route as the Llangollen route in future (for the sake of
ease and brevity) (Hope you can spell Llangollen).