Wednesday, April 18, 2012

new german freeware route available! Elbe-Weser-Triangle

Another german freeware route surfaced this weekend. It is a work in progress route in three steps, of which the first complete one is now released.
It's placed in the geographical region between Bremen (river Weser), Hamburg (river Elbe) and Cuxhaven (water mouth of Elbe), which forms the Elbe-Weser triangle. There are several railroad connections, the most important main line from Bremen via Rotenburg to Hamburg known as "Rollbahn" (which is Hamburg-Bremen from Schottermann released previously). The "Weser-Aller-Bahn" from Rotenburg via Verden to Minden, the tracks from Bremerhaven to Cuxhaven as well as Bremerhaven to Buxtehude (ongoing to Hamburg), Bremerhaven to Bremen and Bremen-Verden-Hannover.
From this huge area there is currently the northern part only, which consists of Buxtehude-Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven-Bremerhaven and Bremerhaven-Buxtehude, which is rebuilt in said 3 parts.
Part one now released has about 83 kilometers (about 52 miles) of tracks from Buxtehude via Stade to Cuxhaven (Google Maps view). There are 15 stations along the way, as well as some freight depots and yards.
The route is delivered with 6 scenarios ranging from 25 to 80 minutes in duration, 4 of those are passenger runs, 2 are freight. They can all be run with RW default rolling stock, freeware and some repaints.

Impressions (screenshots are pre-release and places shown might be a bit different now):
Screenshots 1 - Screenshots 2 - Screenshots 3 - Screenshots 4 - Night Screenshot

required payware:
- Isle of Wight (for vegetation and water)
- Doncaster Works (some wheels and stuff for the depots)
- Glasgow Airport Rail Link (a couple of buildings)
optional:
- Cologne-Düsseldorf (for rolling stock only, the scenarios which use them are available in a freeware variation as well)
- AP Station Lighting UK Default
- AP Station Lighting UK DLC
- Lighting Effects Pack (all for night scenarios and light effects)

The download is about 900 MB, but most of you will probably have some of the included freeware and assets.
You need all files from this directory on Rail-Sim.de. That is the route itself, 3 Asset Packs for manual copying and 5 Files with .rwp files to install. After that an additional 5 downloads is required, look into the readme file for links. That is mainly rolling stock.

Currently it is only available in german language, but my reason for posting this here: I started work on an english language pack, which should be ready on the weekend.

Also I've been asked about my repaints of several people I created a while ago and this pack will get an update in the near future as well. I don't have an exact timetable for it at the moment, but it will be my next project to work on.

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