TSW6 UK Content Ballast Enhancement Pack

This pack aims to improve the look of various British routes that use the either default 'Coal' or 'Mud' covered texture that is used on many UK routes which generally look pretty awful and most of the time are completely inaccurate for the region & condition.

I have created a new set of ballast shades/colours from scratch to represent different conditions of the track ballast to depict how well-kept the line in question is (or to at least get it closer to what it looks like in real life)

These include:

• Weathered/oxidized brown/pink shade (for a mixture of different railway lines)
• Modern light grey shade (for busier metro & modern high speed railway lines)
• Medium grey shade (for more traditional double track commuter as well as branch lines)
• Light beige shade (for earlier style British Railway routes as well as dense urban commuter lines)

Standard Routes currently supported:
For routes that use the UKCP (UK Content Pack) core folder textures

• Cardiff City Network: Radur & Coryton – Penarth & Bae Caerdydd
• East Coast Main Line: Peterborough - Doncaster
• London Overground Suffragette line: Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside
• West Coast Main Line: London Euston - Milton Keynes
• Riviera Line: Exeter – Plymouth & Paignton

Legacy route support:
For routes that do not utilise textures from the UKCP core folder, and instead use the older referencing method (where they have their own unique set of textures)

• Birmingham Cross-City Line: Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch
• Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk
• Brighton Mainline: London Victoria - Brighton
• East Coastway Remastered: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford
• Glossop Line: Manchester - Hadfield & Glossop
• Great Western Express Remastered: Paddington - Reading
• Midland Main Line: Leicester - Derby & Nottingham
• Manchester Airport Commuter: Manchester - Alderley Edge
• Mildmay Line: Stratford - Willesden Junction
• Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds
• Peak Forest Railway: Ambergate - Chinley & Buxton
• Southeastern Highspeed: London St Pancras – Ashford Intl & Faversham
• Spirit of Steam: Liverpool Lime Street - Crewe
• Tees Valley Line: Darlington - Saltburn by-the-sea
• West Coast Main Line: Birmingham - Crewe
• West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle

As time goes on the lists above will be gradually updated to support both brand new routes as well as older "Preserved Content" routes if they are worth looking into

As always, thanks for reading and enjoy!

Tags: ballast british-railways dtg enhancement enhancement-pack railway textures track tsw5 uk uk-rail ukcontent