TSW6 UK Content Ballast Enhancement Pack
- by SprattyHeath
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Description
Updates:
27/05/2026
Added Brighton Mainline: London Victoria - Brighton to the Legacy Selection support list
20/05/2026
Updated ballast brightness for Standard Route Ballast Pack & Manchester Airport Commuter: Manchester - Alderley Edge
30/03/2026
Updated ballast saturation & brightness for both West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle & Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk to give it a more "muted" & used look.
10/03/2026
Added/Fixed ballast for East Coastway Remastered: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford to the Legacy Selection support list
16/02/2026
Added Great Western Express Remastered: Paddington - Reading to the Legacy Selection support list
25/10/2025
Added West Coast Main Line: Birmingham - Crewe to the Legacy Section support list
25/09/2025
Added Riviera Line: Exeter – Plymouth & Paignton to the standard support list
16/07/2025
Added Manchester Airport Commuter: Manchester - Alderley Edge to the Legacy Section support list
18/03/2025
Added Cardiff City Network: Radur & Coryton – Penarth & Bae Caerdydd to the standard support list
04/03/2025
Added Mildmay Line: Stratford - Willesden Junction route to the Legacy Section support list
27/02/2025
Added Birmingham Cross City Line : Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch route to the Legacy Section support list
10/02/2025
Added Midland Main Line: Leicester - Derby & Nottingham route to the Legacy Section support list
07/02/2025
Added Southeastern HighSpeed: London St Pancras – Ashford Intl & Faversham Route to the Legacy Section support list
04/12/2024
Added a new Legacy Support section for 'Preserved Collection' routes as well as new textures for JT's Preston-Blackpool-Ormskirk & the newly released Preston - Carlisle.
29/10/2024
Fixed default ballast showing up on the lineside in a recent WCML patch update, plus some minor texture alterations.
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
Dependencies
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Installation Instructions
To install, simply drag & drop the .pak file into your TSW "DLC" folder.
Files
!!UKContentBallastEnhancementPack.pak
Standard Route Ballast Pack (Please check the standard list for compatible routes)
Please note that you do NOT need to install this file if you just want to use any of the UKContentLegacyBallast .paks.
Comments
Thank you for this mod, finally makes the ballast look more realistic.
Good stuff here
Why was this made in april fools?
What relevance does that have exactly?
Thanks for this, nice one.
Thanks, what an improvement!
For BPO Ballast are compatible with this mod ?
https://www.trainsimcommunity.com/mods/c3-train-sim-world/c19-patches/i5135-blackpool-branches-scenery-timetable-formations-and-other-addons
Yes
Hi, to clarify, do i need to install Standard Route Ballast Pack if I have installed all others ballast pak ?
You do not need to have that one installed, no. It's separate from the other ballast paks.
for consistency with other pak names: rename "!!UKLegacyContentBallast-SEHS-London-Ashford-Faversham.pak" --> "!!UKContentLegacyBallast-SEHS-London-Ashford-Faversham.pak"
Duly noted, it has been changed.
!!UKContentLegacyContentBallast-SEHS-London-Ashford-Faversham : second "Content" should be deleted
Happy now? Please stop with the nitpicking!
Thank you, perfect
The newsest mod "!!UKContentLegacyBallast-SEHS-London-Ashford-Faversham.pak" is TSW5 Only and the other mods can still be used in TSW4? Or none can be used in TSW4...
You can give it a try but I do not know if they will work with TSW4, I just dont have the space to install more than one TSW game.
Okay thank you for the reply and will test as soon as I can, just getting updates, for now, more pertinent family matters need my attention. Thanks again.
Excellent work just like the previous versions!!!
Good luck.
Kind regards, tof
Excellent work ! Can you made this for Birmingham Cross City Line, please ?
Yes. I will be giving that route some new ballast textures at some point. Dunno when but it's on the list to do.
I have now added Birmingham Cross City to the list.
Seems to be working on the Cardiff route for me even without the update
You'll need to update the "!!UKContentBallastEnhancementPack.pak" otherwise the Landscape ballast textures on Cardiff will be the incorrect shade.
OK thank you
The Glossop Manchester mod started crashing for me recently.
Can you include the Manchester Airport Route.?
Just added it in
TSW 6 Day One, PERFECTLY Guys !
Manys thanks to you !!!
Many thanks for the TSW6 update.
Hello everyone, and welcome to those who were able to access TSW6 on September 25th and are getting off to a good start with this mod (also TSW5) on the British road ballast (for now :-) ) which is fully functional, and which softens the textures of the rail and ballast, making the whole thing less dark!!!
Have a good trip, everyone.
Sincerely, tof
BEFORE
AFTER
Game tells me that the version of this mod is newer than the version of the game (TSW 6 is up to date).
New tracks textures for standard routes do not appear (I did not have this problem with TSW5)
Thanks.
Ignore it, it works just fine for TSW6
That's what I do but the new textures don't apply to standard routes 😔
Hi, use these [legacy ballast packs] for your standard roads, as suggested by Spratty Heath in their list of downloadable roads.
Kind regards, tof
Getting a crash at Oxley CMD on Birmingham-Crewe (when you walk to the south end of the depot) with this mod enabled.
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 208] Renaming an object (Texture2D /Engine/Transient.Texture2D_2147453921) on top of an existing object (Texture2D /BirminghamCrewe/Map/Tiles/ST_x-101_y-116.ST_x-101_y-116:PersistentLevel.GJR_List_BoardWhite3.DynamicDisplayBoard.DisplayBoard_LayoutTexture) is not allowed
This error has absolutely nothing to do with my mod.
It's a PIS issue that needs patching by the developers
Many thanks for the mods,Ive been removing some of the weeds from Laira,is it feasible to swap tracks from GWR to Riviera ?
No it is not possible
I love the color, but could you make it a bit darker? Similar to the GWE remaster. It kinda blows out the picture sometimes. I understand that it's supposed to work in tandem with the graphics mod, but I prefer more contrast.
as a matter of interest is anyone playing train sim world or train sim classic using an intel B580 or B570?
Merci ! les updates sont toujours les bienvenues !
Thnx
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About this mod
- Created
- 1 Apr 2024
- Updated
- 8 days ago
- Game
- Train Sim World
- Type of content
- Patch
- Train Sim World Content
- Birmingham Cross-City Line, Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk, Brighton Main Line: London Victoria - Brighton, East Coast Mainline: Peterborough to Doncaster, East Coastway: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford, Glossop Line: Manchester - Hadfield & Glossop, Great Western Express, London Overground Suffragette line: Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside, Manchester Airport Commuter, Midland Main Line: Leicester - Derby & Nottingham, Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds, Peak Forest Railway: Ambergate - Chinley & Buxton, Riviera Line: Exeter – Plymouth & Paignton, Southeastern Highspeed, 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: London Euston - Milton Keynes
- Train Sim World Version
- Train Sim World 5, Train Sim World 6
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