DB BR 218 - More Substitutions/Timetable Services

This mod will increase the chance the DB BR 218 is eligible for substitution into timetable services. It won't substitute into all services and routes since there are more factors which substitution depends on and I can't influence, but it provides a wide variety of new services for the locomotive.

By default (without this mod) and excluding the services on Maintalbahn and Hauptstrecke Hamburg-Lübeck, the TSG DB BR 218 substitutes into timetable services on the following routes:

1. Nahverkehr Dresden-Riesa (DRA)
2. Hauptstrecke Hamburg-Lübeck (HBK)
3. Hauptstrecke München-Augsburg (HMA)
4. Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr (HRR/NRM)
5. Main-Spessart-Bahn (MSB)
6. Rhein-Ruhr Osten (RRO)
7. Ruhr-Sieg Nord (RSN)
8. Schnellfahrstrecke Köln-Aachen (SKA)

With this mod, the BR 218 substitutes into timetable services on these routes as well:

9. Bahnstrecke Bremen-Oldenburg (BRO)
10. Dresden-Chemnitz / Tharandter Ramper (DCZ)
11. Frankfurt-Fulda / Kinzigtalbahn (FTF)
12. Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel-Würzburg (KWG)
13. Bahnstrecke Salzburg-Rosenheim (SRM)
14. S-Bahn Vorarlberg (VRL)

• possibly even more and future routes (just try it out)

Unfortunately, it won't have substitutions on Rapid Transit / Leipzig S2 (RPT), Semmeringbahn (SBN), Niddertalbahn (NID) and Linke Rheinstrecke (LFR).

In addition to that, substitution parameters have been changed to enhance the chance of substitution for InterCity, DB Regio, and freight services. So it will likely result in a few more services on the routes listed in the first section (routes 1-8) as well. For InterCity services, I think you will need the BR 101 Standard (Not Expert) addon as base to substitute into.

As a fun gimmick, I did something which maybe not everyone liked but therefore I provided you the chance to decide for yourself taking it or not. I changed substitution parameter to allow the BR 218 to substitute into timetable services on international (UK, USA, France, Netherlands etc.) - Austria and Switzerland is included in the normal pak version already.

The "!218_EvenMoreSubstitutions_International.pak" will furthermore include the ability to sub into services (of the Class 66 I think) on these routes for example:

15. Birmingham Cross-City Line: Lichfield-Bromsgrove & Redditch (BCC)
16. East Coastway: Brighton-Eastbounre/Seaford (BML)
17. East Coast Main Line - Peterborough-Doncaster (ECML)
18. Goblin/Suffragette Line - Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside (GLE)
19. Glossop Line - Manchester - Hadfield & Glossop (MGP)
20. Great Western Express - London Paddington-Reading (GWE)
21. South Eastern High Speed - St. Pancras - Ashford International/Faversham (SEHS)
22. West Coast Main Line South: London Euston - Milton-Keynes (WCMLS/EMK)

Keep in mind that this will also sub the DB BR 218 in AI traffic. The probability I have no influence on, since this is setup in the formation to sub into. However as explained in the Installation instructions, you can disable the mod by simply moving the pak in a subfolder or a folder above of DLC or use TaskPlay's Mod Manager, if you want to have authentic AI traffic again.

Note that substitution can be not only limited by geograpical region and operator, but also requirements of the capacities of the loco to be substituted. I made the BR 218 sub into services for "stronger" locomotives. That being said, it is possible that some services requiring to go over a certain amount of gradient with a certain amount wagons loaded you can't complete (without additional help)

Tags: 218 br218 services sub substitution timetable tsg