<kuid2:582486:101273:4> DSEPR03 HS1 London to Lille V6.1

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Version 6.1 Note: replaced a single scenic item with a different one. No other changes.

Version 6 Note: (versions 4 and 5 unreleased) The main features of this 2022 update are full rebuilds of Lille Europe and Calais Frethun high speed stations to better reflect reality, along with a general overhaul of the Eurotunnel terminals and surroundings. Also added are some new AI schedules to the associated sessions that operate Eurotunnel Shuttle trains. Secondary improvements are so numerous that I will list them in the Forum thread dedicated to this route rather than add them here. Updates to the three sessions associated with this route should also be on the DLS. A DLS search under the name DSEPR03 will show the related sessions. This route was constructed in Trainz version 105476. See below for much more route detail.

Version 3 Note: This version was constructed to eliminate the cause of a CTD that some users reported experiencing at a certain location on the route. Other minor improvements have also been made. Refer to the Forum thread dedicated to this route for detailed information. Enjoy.....

SIMPLE ROUTE DESCRIPTION
This route models both High Speed One and regular network trackage between Wembley Yards in west London all the way to Lille in France, along with certain branchlines. Two sections of HS1 are shared by fast and slow trains, because HS1 was originally designed to accept freight trains as well as fast movers. These occur at the HS1 crossing beneath the Thames River near Ebbsfleet and the Channel Tunnel that links France and Britain. Read the following section for more route detail.
This route has been 18 years in the making, and bits of it represent my first routebuilding efforts with Trainz2004. But it has evolved and grown continuously since. The British side was built with DEM terrain using the old Hand Of God program, but the French side has terrain undulation built by hand before I had access to HOG. It still looks fairly good as that part of France is quite flat anyway.
I rate this route at 95 percent prototypical because I added a handful of fairly big industries to generate traffic, and modified the trackage layout in Maidstone Kent to combine the lines through Strood and Lenham into one route to keep freight trains close to HS1.
Three basic setup sessions should be available on the DLS, all listed under the search term DSEPR03.

DETAILED ROUTE DESCRIPTION
TRACKAGE MAPS IN A TEXT FORMAT, FROM WEST TO EAST
HS1-----------------------------------
St Pancras station area
HS1 west tunnel
Stratford International station complex
HS1 east tunnel
HS1 Thames River tunnel
Ebbsfleet International Station
HS1 mainline including freight sidings, Medway Viaduct and North Downs tunnel
Ashford Kent
Dollands Moor freight staging yard
Folkestone LeShuttle facility in full
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50km Channel Tunnel
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Coquelle LeShuttle facility in full
Frethun freight staging yard, France
LGVNord mainline to Lille, including sidings and connections
Lille Europe Station
South Lille

NETWORK LINES--------------------------
Access to a British staging area.
Wembley Yards area east of Wembley Central station.
North London Line.
St Pancras HS1 interchange in full.
North London Line.
Stratford area, including Temple Mills Eurostar Depot.
North London Line.
Barking, then Ripple Lane Yard and it's freight connection onto HS1. Also adds the Purfleet Line as far as Tilbury, including the Northfleet Docks Complex. Freights use HS1 to cross the Thames.
Kent lines - Ebbsfleet to Gravesend, Hoo Junction, Strood, Maidstone, Lenham, Ashford. Also includes the full Thamesport Branchline from Hoo Junction, and the line from Strood to Gillingham naval docks.
Ashford area, including the Javelin Depot located there.
Dollands Moor freight interchange for access to the Channel Tunnel.
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50km Channel Tunnel
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Frethun Eurotunnel freight interchange for the necessary loco changes for access to the SNCF network lines.
Calais area south of the main station, including the branch down to Calais Bassin Ouest.
SNCF mainline from Calais, Nortquerke, Watten, St Omer, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Armentieres and on to Lille. Also includes the branchline from Armentieres to the prototypical Roquette Freressa plant near Merville is included. This factory generates much rail traffic.
SNCF beltline around Lille in full, including a fully useable humpyard at LaDelivrance which closed in around 2007 in real life but lives on in this route. Lille Flandres station is also modelled in full.
Access to the European staging area at 5 points around Lille.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT HIGH SPEED LINES IN TRAINZ
When N3V developed the otherwise good cabin-sway feature, they apparantly forgot that some trains go faster than 60mph. Consequently, at 190mph this effect looks ridiculous. To fix this, copy the following four lines into the config.txt file for any traincar assets you might wish to use on high speed lines. This will practically eliminate cabin sway at high speeds.
suspension-damping 0.90573
suspension-stiffness 0.964551
suspension-pitch-limit 0.024
suspension-roll-limit 0.028
ROUTE OPERATION
I operate this route as a freight route, using a spreadsheet to guide what wagon and train movements are required. The high speed AI trains are to provide some challenge for freight trains that MUST use HS1 across the Thames and in the Channel Tunnel.
TRACKAGE TYPE USED
Various, but I updated the entire route to use procedural trackage that TANE offers and changed all mainline trackage to a condition setting of 100 to reduce swaying.
CATENARY
As per my usual practice in routebuilding, I did not erect catenary on this route. I didn't want to spoil the view of the scenery, nor do I have the time for such a mammoth undertaking. Kent trackage, however, does have third rail electrification.
SUPERELEVATION
I discovered while building my previous route that superelevation is best applied to trackage that has been laid with superelevation specifically in mind. The high speed lines on this route were originally built more than 10 years ago when superelevation was but a Trainz daydream. Nevertheless, I decided to undertake the job of relaying 200 km of high speed line. I started on the french side, but had to abandon the effort. Sadly, it turns out that the superelevation system in TANE does not cope well with very wide radius curves. Curve radii on a high speed line can be measured in the tens of kilometers. I found that TANE does not always recognize a curve as being such at a large radii. The superelevation would be applied by the program only sporadically. With this finding, I had to abandon the effort to apply superelevation to this route.
SIGNALLING
Fortunately, the DLS offers signalling systems to suit both France and Britain as well as signals representing TVM430 as used on HS1 and LGVNord. These have all been used appropriately. In addition, banner type indicators are used at some key yards including the functional humpyard in Lille, to indicate which yard track a train is heading for.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL
I am not an accomplished asset creator, but I managed to cobble together a set of assets that render the Channel Tunnel fairly well. The two crossover chambers in the tunnel are also represented, along with crossover doors (in the session layer) that can be edited to be closed or open. These assets are now on the DLS and should have downloaded with the route.
TRACKMARKS AND CAMERAS
Extensively used. All locations along the route have trackmarks added to the degree necessary to facilitate smooth AI Schedules and the ability to command AI drivers in most areas of the trackwork. Cameras have been added at reasonable intervals on the whole route.
SCHEDULE LIBRARY
Schedules have been written into the Schedule Library rule for AI trains, and many for common routes for trains that the user might wish to use.
MAIN STAGING AREAS
At each end of the route is a large staging area, the staging west of London is labelled as BNODE and the staging east of Lille is labelled as ENODE . The purpose of these stagings has changed over the years with different iterations of Trainz, so may seem a little eccentric in their design because of this. They are currently meant to represent the rest of Britain, or the rest of Europe.
UPLOADED SESSIONS
There should be three sessions for this route on the DLS.
DSEPR03 Base Session 1 - DLS ASSETS ONLY - AI OPERATIONAL
DSEPR03 Base Session 2 - DLS ASSETS ONLY - NO AI TRAINS
DSEPR03 Base Session 3 - AUTHORS COLLECTION
MIND THE YOWIE
There is a yowie to be found on this route, somewhere. For non Australian readers, a yowie is the aussie version of the BigFoot or Yeti. Most sitings of this creature occur in a region of Australia that is also known for having the most marijuana crops hidden among the lush hills in the area. Make of this coincidence what you will. The asset is named People Yeti . This one likes his sport. All my DLS routes have one, just for the fun of it.
CREDITS
The builder of the route is me. The builders of the DLS assets that made this route possible are a great many others, and I thank them for their asset creation efforts over many many years. You guys make Trainz what it is.