GWE's First Great Western: June 20th 2022 Update Fixes

After the huge Preservation update to the Great Western Express Route Add-On on June 20th 2022, the First Great Western Class 166 and HST, not meant to be accessible by the player but having made available thanks to a mod by trainsim.cz aka. Muff previously, were not updated to work with the changes made to the equivalent Great Western Railway stock and subsequently broke with that update.
This mod in collaboration between Alexander L. and Foobian aims to get the FGW stock back into the game better than before, bellow is a full list of changes made. Enjoy a Great Western Express full of life with DTG made Great Western Railway and First Great Western trains and your favourite legacy reskins building of the FGW stock!

Changelog

First Great Western Class 166
  • Fixed Material order on SK_FGW166_DMOCL and SK_FGW166_DMSL meaning:
    • PIS now displaying correctly
    • Rain On Glass working again
    • Unit numbers working again and no longer defaulting to 166 123
  • Fixed collision by swapping DMOCL with DMSL collision and DMSL with DMOCL
  • Fixed light bleed originating from the two cab light sources and around the toilets
  • Fixed cab indicators by duplicating the GWR 166 cab material and modifing it for the FGW 166
  • The 2x FGW 166 formation is now named "FGW Class 166 FGW (2x 3 cars)" instead of having no name at all
  • The 1x FGW 166 formation has been renamed from "FGW Class 166 (3 units)" to "Class 166 FGW (3 car)"
  • The FGW 166 formations are now no longer using the LegacySelectionMethod
  • The Class 166 ValidGeographicRegions and AvailableGeographicRegions were redone
Great Western Railway Class 166
  • The GWR 166 formations are now named "Class 166 GWR (3 car)" and "Class 166 GWR (2x 3 cars)" instead of having no name at all
  • The GWR 166 formations are now no longer using the LegacySelectionMethod
  • The GWR 166 has been renamed from "Class 166 GWG" to "Class 166 GWR"
  • The Class 166 ValidGeographicRegions and AvailableGeographicRegions were redone
First Great Western HST
  • The FGW HST formations are now no longer using the LegacySelectionMethod
Great Western Railway HST
  • The substitution setup has been redone, meaning that the First Great Western HST and HST legacy reskins are now substituting in again
  • The Timetable specific formations now use the FGW HST as their base instead of the GWR HST and have the ValidGeographicRegions "Great Western Express" and "GNER"
  • The GWR HST formations are now named "Class 43 GWR 2+8", "Class 43 GWR 2+7" and "Class 43 GWR 2+4" instead of having no name at all
  • The GWR HST formations are now no longer using the LegacySelectionMethod

Requirements

Tags: 166 class-166 class166 fgw first-great-western fix fixes

Files

AL_Foob_RH_FGWFix_TSW3.pak 47 MB · Added 11 Sept 2022 · Downloaded 1,734×

only for Train Sim World 3

AL_Foob_RH_FGWFix.pak 47 MB · Added 2 Jul 2022 · Downloaded 1,426×

only for Train Sim World 2

Comments

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SprattyHeath 2 Jul 2022

Wonderful to see the FGW skins again, and properly fixed too, sublime work here. Thanks!

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solicitr 4 Jul 2022

Unfortunate bug: it resets your Class 43 XP to -1 and they never increase from there

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rj1 5 Jul 2022

I am amazed that you both come up with a fix to this so quickly. And Muff too! I was hoping that something might be done in 3 months so 3 days exceeded all expectations. No chance you could get a job with DTG is there? lol

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W2SJW 7 Sept 2022

I'm wondering if the original FGW unlocker mod needs to be updated to TSW3 compatability. I seem to get CTD's with this mod every time I try and load a FGW skin, and then at least 50% of the time with his unlocker alone...

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rj1 11 Sept 2022

Unfortunately I can also confirm that the mod no longer works on tsw3 although I guess that it could be that the FGW unlocker might require updating again. I think that DTG will probably not be updating GWE again! I hope not!

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FileTrekker 11 Sept 2022

This is marked as TSW3 compatible, but unfortunately it is not. Would be good if a moderator or admin could remove that flag until the author updates it as it crashes the game.

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rj1 11 Sept 2022

I can confirm that following the most recent update this mod now works on TSW3. Many thanks, its great to have this mod back.

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Hand92250 12 Sept 2022

Good job !

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W2SJW 12 Sept 2022

Thanks a million for the prompt fix!

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Boa 2 Nov 2022

Anybody know why the FGW class 43 unit numbers always set to 43345? and if there is any fix?

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Foobian 2 Nov 2022

They've always been like that, even in TSW 1. And unfortunately there's no fix

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Boa 2 Nov 2022

Okay :(

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Dinosbacsi 15 Jan 2023

For some reason AI driven Class 166s only seem to spawn in their original livery. Even though I can select the FGW livery and use it, it never spawns as AI.

Is this a known issue? The Class 43 works fine and spawns in both liveries.

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Dinosbacsi 16 Jan 2023

Alright, I take it back, just saw one now. They just seem to be much rarer(?) - only 1 FGW 166 seen in Paddington - Reading runs, the rest were all GWE ones.

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OleDre 7 Apr 2023

Considering all the updates since the creation of this mod, the FGW Unlocker "TSW2_FGW_enabler1.2.zip" from trainsim.cz is still needed? I would like to get this installed and just want to make sure I get it correct.

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Foobian 7 Apr 2023

Yes. It is still listed as an requirement for the mod

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OleDre 7 Apr 2023

Thank you very much I do appreciate you getting back to me.

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Intercity125 5 Jun 2023

Hi there, I'm just wondering if the FGW Unlocker is needed, I've tried to use this mod without it and it seemed to work but I'm wondering if it breaks something.

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BREL 8 Jul 2023

I am unsure if i am doing something wrong or if its due to the present build of TSW3. The mod here works fine no doubt and its amazing but only for the Class 166. I have a feeling it may be something to do with the FGW Unlocker being out of date but i cannot be sure. The HST sets, formations or anything relating to them is not working. If you know a way to fix this or if i am doing something wrong could you please tell or show me? Other than that, brilliant mod thanks!

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Foobian 8 Jul 2023

DTG removed the FGW HST in the latest GWE update. And because the mod still is required when modding the FGW HST back in, this mod page will stay as is until a standardized method for returning the FGW HST back into the game for everyone is published.

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BREL 8 Jul 2023

Ah okay so its basically an update in the main game that has broken the HST. Thanks for getting back in touch.

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BlurpyV2 20 Jul 2023

Hey there, really wanted to try this however it crashes when trying to load in. also i doesn't show up the livery, bt if i try and load as a class 43 GWR it crashes,

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Dinosbacsi 12 Dec 2023

So the FGW trains are just not working anymore now? The Class 166 spawns in FGW livery only if the player drives it. The FGW HST won't even show up in the livery seleciton menu.

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