Changelog:
01 Dec 24: Added Asset Registry files to ensure correct loading in TSW5
18 Mar 24: Updated Enhancement Pack to be compatible with Train Sim World 4
07 Aug 23: Barnt Green scenery tile files removed and replaced with https://www.trainsimcommunity.com/mods/c3-train-sim-world/c19-patches/i3809-birmingham-cross-city-scenery-update-foliage-fencing-clutter downloadable separately.
An enhancement pack is avaliable to download for the Birmingham Cross City Line route. This mod provides a substantial visual overhaul to the route, with the specifics listed below.
Improvements and additions:
Stations:
- Updated and realistic billboard advertising
- Updated station signage and branding for station posters
- Brand generic new station announcements
- Branded station clutter and furniture
- Brand new station model for the exterior of Bromsgrove Station
- Brand new texture for the facade of Birmingham New Street, with a lovely reflective look added to it
- Updated Redditch station building with new textures & Thorlux billboards
Infrastructure & Environment:
- Substantial overhaul to the Redditch branch, by giving it a lot more scenery and making it look less bland looking
- Brand new and realistic looking ballast texture
- Signals given a big overhaul, with them appearing much brighter as well as giving them a more accurate colour temperature
- Brand new station lighting, ranging from the 'old school' orange varient to the modern and bright looking LEDs
Class 323:
- Updated external PIS size to give it a closer match to reality
- Slightly brighter day and night running headlights, giving a better view at night
- GSMR sound 'clicks' now added to when navigating the buttons
- Slightly brighter and more vivid looking gauges in the cab
- Altered headlight texture
^ These alterations for the WMR 323 have also been applied to the SimTrack Regional Railways Class 323 reskin DLC
Requirements
Birmingham Cross City Revamped. Scenery Update (Foliage, Lighting, Fencing & Clutter)
Patch for Train Sim World · by Bescot · 1 Dec 2024Strongly recommended to install
Cross-City Line -enhancements
Patch for Train Sim World · by gavin · 19 Mar 2024Strongly recommended to install for the ultimate Cross City enhancement
Not essential
Return to Birmingham Cross-City in nostalgic fashion with 323 221, freshly sporting the “Centro” variant of Regional Railways livery, to mark 30 years of Class 323 service in the West Midlands, across all-new gameplay, in Train Sim World®!
All aboard for Brum! Climb onto one of the most unique modern trains in Britain, delve into dense commuter operations and explore West Midlands territory, including the famed Lickey Incline. Bustling duties await in Train Sim World®: Birmingham Cross-City Line: Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch.
Installation Instructions
To install, simply download from the link and place the .pak inside your DLC folder, located at: ...steamapps\common\Train Sim World 4\WindowsNoEditor\TS2Prototype\Content\DLC
Tags: birmingham class-323 enhancement londonmidland mod tsw4
Files
!TS2Prototype-WindowsNoEditor-BCCEnhancementPack.pak 88 MB · Added 1 Dec 2024 · Downloaded 966×Previously uploaded files have been downloaded 13,915 times before being withdrawn.
Comments
The announcements are the best you guys have done! I've been waiting for an announcement with the calling at stations etc and it was the first one i heard! It's a shame the team can't get the license for it as it's the one thing I'd add to the sim! You guys have semi achieved this yourselves. This mod has made my year! <3 Thank you sooooooo much!!! Would love to see you guys do the same with other lines which i know you have to an extent but even more announcements like the calling at ones would be insane!!! I love that these don't cut off half way through either, they seemed to do that a lot on other lines
Silly Question - Do the announcements only happen at certain stations or in a specific way? Currently doing a timetable route but haven't heard any announcements so far.
They happen at every station and are played randomly. They are quite infrequent though. I think they only play once every 10 minutes so the chance that you'll hear one whilst driving is quite low.
Managed to hear some now - All good but thanks for letting me know.
Hey, Can you please make a patch to fix the PIS? It always lists a 323 as having 2 coaches if its 3 coaches. Then a 6 car as a 4 car. No one has made a patch for it yet and its annoying me alot
Hey, this would be something DTG will fix in their upcoming patch.
Oh yeah and If Possible one for the 323 PIS because that is always broken and lists every station as its starting point eg your at four oaks and it says your still at Redditch on the PIS.
Ah i see Thanks
Sorry One more lol, Whats your opinion on the 323 Sounds? I think they are realistic at the start when moving off but then kinda drift off to be more unrealistic and then i realised it would be probably to difficult for anyone to make a 323 Sound Mod.
I find them decent, however they’re a bit off at lower speeds.
its not working for me any ideas?
ive done everything it has told me to do and nothing has happend tired it a few times now?
Can you confirm your file structure that are placing the mod in for me please?
What do you mean by file structure?
Where are you placing the mod and are you playing on the Steam version or Microsoft Windows Store version?
I’m playing on the steam version I place the file on steam apps common etc I copy it onto the files close it and i load train som world 3 up and itnever overwrites DTG version
Are you placing it in the correct DLC folder? It shouldn’t get overwritten or anything when you launch the game.
Fantastic work, all of you - thank you!
Thank you 🙏🏻
In the November 28th patch notes it said
"Redditch branch scenery between Alvechurch and Barnt Green has been improved and had new foliage and assets added."
Has this made the "Bescot-BCC_BarntGreenSceneryTile.pak" obsolete?
Hi, it hasn’t. The mod is a lot more detailed compared to the official patch itself so you’re safe to keep it.
Ok, thanks.
Hello, and thank you very much for this mod.
I have one question. There are certain services in the timetable for this route (e.g. 2N20 Four Oaks to Longbridge), where the train is supposed to continue past the final stop to a siding before reversing for the next service. The problem is that you cannot drive this part - even if you choose to continue the game, you get kicked out of the driver's seat and the AI takes over. Attempting to override it shows the message "You do not have permission to drive this service" until the train has stopped at the reversing point, and only then it allows you to take over to continue the next service. This is a bit immersion-breaking when you're driving in timetable mode. May I ask, wouldn't it be too difficult to allow the player to drive this part? Or is it outside the scope of this mod entirely, or perhaps not even possible with the currently available modding tools?
Thank you very much, again.
This is not something we can fix unfortunately.
I see. Thanks for answering.
Another superb mod. Thank you all for this.
Will this mod work with TSW4?
At present, no TSW 3 mods work with TSW 4. We’re waiting for DTG to resolve this.
Mod has just been updated for TSW4, apologies for the wait.
thanks you. works and very nice add-on.
but it's little too heavy for my RTX4070. I use ultra settings provided by "TSW 4 | Lighting & Graphic Enhancement v4.1.4". At the moment I don't have time to test other graphics settings.
The version I currently have for TSW3 is still good and will work with TSW3? I ask because there has been an update to TSW3 and another is set to be pushed out on 20-03-2024.
Probably not, as the materials have been updated to work with TSW4, they wont work with TSW3.
Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it.
I do understand the updated version is for TSW4 only.
I still have the TSW3 version of this mod, will it receive any updates because TSW3 is getting an update on 20-03-2024?
It will not, no, sorry.
Okay thank you once TSW3 gets updated on 20-03-2024, this mod will be null and void. I was good while it lasted thanks much.
Damn if only Clinchfield RR had this quality of forests and nature
...*cough hint
Hi
with this mod i can only play in dx11
if i start in dx 12 like i only do
then i get an error that my video card is running out of memory ( Asus 3080 )
TSW4 does not directly support Dx12 as far as I know, it will lead to potential crashes.
I use Dx12 along with all the recomended mods listed no prob .. I do have rtx 3090 so got enough ram
must be an error from my side but idk what....maybe a conflict mod but for this route i only have recomended mods like u
Hi there how can i add this mod to TWS4 PC using the xbox app?
I do not know how to do it for the Xbox Store version of TSW4, sorry.
Great mod works good Thanks a lot
I've searched long and hard to find the mod that prevents the class 170 from appearing in the fife circle 2024 timetable.
https://www.trainsimcommunity.com/mods/c3-train-sim-world/c19-patches
Hi is there any chance you could upload an old version of your wonderful mod for me? I'm running an older version of the game so as not to break other mods, when I try this version of your mod it makes the WMR 323 disappear so I would like to try an older version. I would really appreciate it. The other mods I have were updated around August to December 2023.
If you felt open to it, I think it would be easiest if you could upload all the different versions of the mod so I could try each one to see if it works that would be amazing, but I completely understand if thats not allowed or you would prefer not to. Thanks for your time and feel free to dm if you'd rather.
No, sorry I dont do that. Far too much work and I don't have enough space for more than one TSW game installed.
Okay thanks anyway, I just thought you might have the old pak file. Nevermind, and thanks for answering quickly.
If I do find the TSW3 file, I'll happily add it onto the site as a legacy version.
Oh I'm on TSW4, it's just an older version like from 2023, I don't update it because it would break mods but then some mods are too new for it if you understand what I mean. In the settings it says build 552. I think this was the update from around the summer in 2023.
Oh well. It doesn't matter really, just would have been cool to have the announcements and such. Thanks for your time and for modding to make the game better
Oh an older version of TSW4? Then no, sorry, that I definitely will not do.
Hi, all
Is there any chance that the water on the canal can be changed? In the main canal water does not have waves on the surface, and the colour of the water is more a dirty muddy greeny brown in urban canals.
Can confirm working in TSW5
amazing, i forgot how bland that route looks and played it the other day and...yeah. looks pretty bad, glad i can use this again
A lot of the mods for tsw4 are working. The ballast one works too. So do all the sound mods, best to just try out whatever you want and then see if it works. Most likely it will.
i actually just tried this in TSW5 and it restarts my computer everytime i try to open the game, but works fine without the mod. no idea what's going on there, but i've deleted it from the content folder until i can figure it out
It could be that it takes up extra resources. I'm not sure. I have a pretty strong PC and it stutters a lot without fluid motion frames enabled in my Radeon settings. If you've altered your engine.ini or using godmode consider lowering the draw distance and the foliage draw distance or something.
Sorry if I got your hopes up but yeh it does work for me. It might require other mods too. I'll give you the list of what I've got related to the BCC line.
you recommend the Cross city line mod, but this is only indicated for TSW4, for TSW5 will it work?
I haven’t installed it myself for TSW 5 as I rarely play the route myself these days, however there’s no harm in trying to see if it works. If it causes the game to crash, then simply remove it :)
Where does it say it's indicated only for TSW4? It's indicated for TSW5 as well
To SprattyHeath : I only ask the question for the Cross City Line mod which is not given for TSW5 !
But it literally is for TSW5, it has been tested for that version.
To all : Bescot LondonMidland SprattyHeath and those who made the complementary packs, many thanks. The line is great now!
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About this mod
- Created
- 23 Nov 2022
- Updated
- 1 Dec 2024
- Game
- Train Sim World
- Type of content
- Patch
- Train Sim World compatibility
- Train Sim World 5
- Train Sim World Content
- Birmingham Cross-City Line, Centro Regional Railways BR Class 323
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