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Sandymill "Electric"
Sandymill to Ashfield Central v1.0

By Craig Allan (www.northern-railways.co.uk)

1 Route File Details
2 Credits & Downloads
3 Driveable Traction Required
4 Important Information & Developers Notes
Route File Details
Your journey is 16 miles long and it starts at Sandymill! You drive through familiar terrain on the electrified Sandymill to Balfearn line until you reach Greenhills, where the line branches off to Ashfield. Here the catenary ends, but the line continues on to Cardross with a mix of urban and rural scenery to enjoy along the way!

The route is set in the era: 1986-93 with electrification from Sandymill all the way through to Ashfield Central. There are nine route files, using a variety of traction:

DAWN
303_SM-Ashfield.csv
A dawn ECS run from Sandymill non-stop to Ashfield Central
DAY

15x_SM-Ashfield.csv
A morning semi-fast run from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at Ladykirk and Kilpatrick.

87_SM-Ashfield.csv
A morning express run from Sandymill non-stop to Ashfield Central

303_SM-Ashfield.csv
An evening local service from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at all stations en-route.

314_SM-Ashfield.csv
A morning local service from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at all stations en-route.

318_SM-Ashfield.csv
An afternoon semi-fast run from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at Ladykirk and Kilpatrick only.

NIGHT

303_SM-Ashfield.csv
A night local service from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at all stations en-route.

318_SM-Ashfield.csv
A night express run from Sandymill non-stop to Ashfield Central.

325_SM-Ashfield.csv
A night mail run from Sandymill to Ashfield Central calling at Kilpatrick.

Motive Power Class 87 (87025), Class 150/2, Class 311, Class 314, Class 318 and Class 325
Distance 18 km
Stations Six - Ladykirk, Greenhills, Greenhills Upper, Kilpatrick, Ashfield East, Ashfield Central
Signalling BR Coloured Light Three Aspect
Speed Limits 20 mph to 75 mph

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Credits (in addition to the Sandymill Electric: Sandymill - Invermay v2.0 credits)
Craig Allan (http://www.northern-railways.co.uk)
Creating the Sandymill - Ashfield route files. Modifying various objects.

Robert Glass (http://www.scotrailsim.co.uk)
Permission to modify the route and objects from Sandymill Electric: Sandymill - Invermay v2.0 to create Sandymill - Ashfield. Advice on placing various objects.

Anthony Bowden (http://www.railsimroutes.co.uk)
Originally creating the Sandymill - Greenhills section of the route. Advice on placing overhead line, signalling, smooth curves and various other objects.

John Owen (http://www.rwysnd.btinternet.co.uk)
Level Crossing and AWS Bing sounds.

Special Thanks
Thanks to everyone who tested the route and provided useful feedback.

Anthony Bowden http://www.railsimroutes.co.uk
Chris Cooper
David White
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zerosignal/bve/
John Owen
http://www.rwysnd.btinternet.co.uk
Robert Glass
http://www.scotrailsim.co.uk
Sacha Dodd
Shaun Myers
Simon Townsend
Stephen Cross
http://www.ozrail.cjb.net
Steve Green
http://www.trainsimcentral.co.uk
Tom O'Flaherty
Wulf
http://www.zodiac-infosystems.co.uk/rail/bve

And anyone else I've forgotten to mention

Download (ADDED: 14th June 2003)
Please note that the copyright and ownership of the materials contained within the download belongs to the developers. If you would like to use any of the files from the download, please contact me: robert@scotrailsim.co.uk

Please extract the files to your BVE folder,
e.g.
C:\Program Files\BVE\
and select to overwrite when prompted.

Sandymill - Ashfield v1.0.2

Last update: 28th July 2003

NOTES

The main Sandymill Electric: Sandymill - Invermay v2.0 'Day' and 'Night' objects must be installed in order to run these routes. Get them here

The route files will install to the following subfolders of \BVE\Routes\

\Sandymill_Electric\1986-93\Dawn\Ashfield\
\Sandymill_Electric\1986-93\Day\Ashfield\
\Sandymill_Electric\1986-93\Night\Ashfield\

The routes are equipped with semi-functional AWS - please ensure that the trains used are equipped with this.

DAWN, DAY & NIGHT ROUTES
(222 KB - contains Sandymill - Ashfield v1.0.2, Objects, Images, Sounds and Route Files)

© Craig Allan, Robert Glass & Anthony Bowden, 2001-2003.

BVE Track Sound Standard [BVETSS] Compliant - Click for more details

Drivable traction, required to be downloaded separately
Train Download Site

Class 87 - 87025

http://www.zodiac-infosystems.co.uk/rail/bve/

Class 150/2

http://www.rwysnd.btinternet.co.uk/

Classes 311, 314 & 318

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zerosignal/bve/
Class 325 http://www.bvetrains.co.uk

Note the routes are equipped with semi-functional AWS - please ensure that the trains used are equipped with this. If they are not equipped, you will not hear the appropriate sounds when passing AWS magnets associated with yellow/red signals or advanced and temporary speed restriction warning boards. Read on...

TRAIN UPGRADE

14th June 2003

NOTES

Please download and install the following upgrade, only after you have installed all of the original trains

AWS UPGRADE (90 KB)

Thanks to the original author(s) of these trains for permission to supply this upgrade...

David White (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zerosignal/bve/)
Classes 311, 314 & 318

BVE Developer Guidelines - Click for more detailsThese BVE add-ons contain both copyrighted and open source material. Permission may be required before re-using or redistributing copyrighted material, and open source material may be used without permission. See any additional documentation for details on which files fall under each category.

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Important Information and Developers Notes

All bitmaps 256*256 or less and 256 colours.

BVE Track Sound Standard [BVETSS] Compliant - Click for more details

This add-on is compliant with the BVE Track Sound Standard [BVETSS], so whenever a train is used in combination with a BVETSS compliant route the correct track sounds are guaranteed to be heard.

To find out more, please visit the BVETSS site: www.railsimroutes.co.uk/bvetss

BVE and all it's add ons are freeware, but copyright © on all material belongs to the developers unless stated otherwise. So it is recommended that you seek permission before you consider releasing any work that contains, or is based upon, material created by someone else. For more information about this aspect of development, please read the following guidelines: BVE Developer Guidelines - A set of guidelines, to help new BVE developers avoid copyright pitfalls when releasing a new BVE add-on

These can be found at Anthony Bowden's website (Rail Sim Routes UK), and you can access the relevant section directly, by clicking on the banner below...

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