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FREIGHT STOCK PACK 01 HEA 45t GLW COAL HOPPERS - POST BR

INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION AND USE OF AN EXPANSION PACK FOR TRAIN SIMULATOR 2014

This book is for the use of customers, and supersedes as from the 6th June 2014, all previous instructions on the installation and use of the above stock pack.

THORNTON I. P. FREELY 6th JUNE, 2014 MOVEMENTS MANAGER 

order of contents

Page Introduction...... 2 Installation...... 2 The Rolling Stock...... 2 History of the Rolling Stock...... 6 Included Scenario...... 6 Sounds for your Scenarios...... 7 Compromises...... 7 Help & Support...... 7 More information & stay in touch ...... 7 Thanks...... 8 Bibliography...... 8 Copyright ...... 8  Introduction This expansion is a spin off from our Project East Coast range of Stock Packs and continues the story of the 45t GLW HEA coal hoppers after the division of into separate freight companies and through to the present privatised railway. The wagons in this pack are in a condition you would expect to have found them in from the early 1990s through to the present day. As it falls outside the remit of Project East Coast this expansion has found itself regarded as the first product in a Freight Stock range.

Installation Installation should be straight forward and most people will only be reading this after they have installed the expansion! However, if you’re not sure what to do the process is pretty straight forward, a double click of the *.exe file that you downloaded should launch the installer. Once running, the installer should automatically find the directory where you have Train Simulator 2014 installed, if not you can point it in the right direction. All that’s needed now is to click through the options, agree to the License Agreement and let the installer do its stuff. If you do encounter any problems feel free to get in touch using the details in the Help and Support Section.

The Rolling Stock This expansion contains HEA hoppers with two body construction variations in Transrail, Mainline, liveries and two variations of red and gold livery all in clean and weathered variations along with a heavily faded flame red and grey livery, the weathered versions have had their access ladders removed in the same style as the prototypes from the start of the 21st century. All versions are provided in loaded and empty configuration with physics that have been adjusted to match, along with in train and rear versions fitted with a tail lamp. Rear versions are fitted with either an original design Mk1 BR battery flashing tail lamp or the more modern slim-line version with LED lamp and retro-reflective strip. In each case lamps are designed to have a small degree of randomness within their flashing to ensure they don’t all flash at the same time!

A later example of an HEA with offset ladder. This wagon has gained a new coat of TransRail colours complete with logo and Barry depot galleon. (HEA: TR OL.C.E or HEA: TR OL.C.L) 

Another later example of an HEA with offset ladder, this time wearing Mainline livery. (HEA: ML OL.C.E or HEA: ML OL.C.L)

This later body style HEA has gained a coat of Loadhaul black and orange livery. (HEA: LH OL.C.E or HEA: LH OL.C.L) 

Coming more up-to-date, this HEA with the second body style has gained red and gold livery with a central logo. (HEA: RG OL.C.E or HEA: RG OL.C.L)

At least one HEA hopper gained a revised red and gold livery with much larger logos and a broader gold band around the hopper top. in this case shown on an early example with central ladder and supports at the hopper corners. (HEA: RGL CL.C.E or HEA: RGL CL.C.L) 

Surprisingly a number of HEAs have made it into the 21st century still wearing Railfreight flame red and grey livery, some 20 years after it was probably applied, albeit very faded and a little modified. This early body example built with a central ladder is still clinging on to Railfreight livery although the Railfreight logo has been removed, overhead warning flashes updated, the TOPS panel and numbers have been renewed and the access ladder removed. (HFA: RF CL.F.E or HEA: RF CL.F.L) File Naming Overview We have developed a standardised naming structure for our rolling stock using the following mask: TOPS: LIVERY - FLAGS For example one wagon may be named HEA: TR OL.C.E.Rb In effect this means it’s an HEA in Transrail livery, the body has an offset ladder, a clean texture, is empty and is carrying an original pattern BR battery tail lamp. File name options The following is a list of the TOPS Codes, liveries and variable flags used in this pack: TOPS: HEA 45t GLW coal hopper wagon. LIVERY: LH Loadhaul black and orange. ML Mainline Blue. RF Railfreight flame red and grey. RG FWS red and gold. RGL FWS red and gold with large logo and broad gold band. TR Transrail grey. FLAGS: OL Offset hopper access ladder with supports at hopper corners. CL Central hopper access ladder. C Clean textures W Weathered textures F Heavily faded textures E ‘Empty’ physics L ‘Loaded’ physics with coal load Rb Rear version fitted with an original pattern BR flashing tail lamp. Rb2 Rear version fitted with a later slim battery tail lamp with retro-reflective strip.  History of the Rolling Stock Coal hoppers, in the form of HAA Merry Go Round (MGR) hoppers, were some of the first wagons constructed as the air braked era dawned. However, it was to be a further 12 years before a more general use hopper appeared. Although a world leading concept the MGR system required expensive automatic unloading equipment that would be unjustifiable at many factories, ports and coal concentration depots. As a consequence, much of the traffic to these locations was still conveyed in vacuum braked and unfitted hopper and open mineral wagons with relatively low speeds and capacities. The prototype HBA hopper was constructed at Shildon to lot 3881 in 1976 and very soon after work began on lot 3885, also at Shildon, which would eventually swell the fleet to 1998 wagons, with the last two under frames constructed being diverted to prototype projects. The wagons were substantially constructed from steel with integral hoppers, supports and under frames. Early versions of the wagons had a centrally located access ladder at each end with thin supports at the corners of the hopper body. Somewhere in the range before No. 360242 this arrangement was modified to an offset ladder at the left hand side and no corner supports. The running gear as constructed featured weighing gear for a self adjusting brake system which utilised disc brakes. The wagons were originally constructed with 13 leaf BR friction link suspension which allowed an maximum speed of 60 mph when loaded but only 45 mph when empty. Throughout the construction period a number of wagons were out shopped with experimental suspension systems, none of which were really successful. In 1979 the decision was taken to alter the suspension of the wagons to allow them to work at 60 mph irrespective of their loaded state. Consequently, Nos. 361782 - 361796 & 361799 were fitted with Bruninghaus suspension at the time of construction. This modification was an immediate success and wagons from No. 361800 were also built with Bruninghaus suspension from new. These wagons were also coded TOPS coded HBA like the earlier wagons until 1981 when the decision was taken to differentiate between the types and the Bruninghaus sprung examples gained the TOPS code HEA. At the same time it was decided to respring the earlier examples in the same way and as this took place they too gained the HEA TOPS code. It was not until 1985 that this respringing was completed. It’s slightly ironic that as the suspension on the HEAs was being upgraded the domestic and industrial coal traffic they were built for was reducing at an alarming rate, as a consequence a large number found themselves stored or converted. That said, some were given extra attention and the new liveries we see in this pack, mainly when they were tidied up to convey newly won traffic it would appear. The only physical change to the hoppers since the privatisation of British Rail has been the gradual removal of the end access ladders for safety reasons.

Included Scenario To let you experience the wagons in as authentic an environment as possible on the Settle to route we’ve enclosed a two part scenario for you to use. Below is a quick summary of the scenario: 7Z24 1145 Carlisle - Doncaster Part 1 Traction: Class 37 Difficulty: Medium Duration: 70 minutes Description: Take a rake of HEAs that had been stored in Carlisle Yard for conversion to MEA open mineral wagons at Doncaster as far as Appleby. Part 2 Traction: Class 37 Difficulty: Medium Duration: 130 minutes Description: Continue the journey southwards with HEA hoppers for conversion into MEAs at Doncaster from Appleby to Settle.  Repainting and Extra Scenarios Repainting As most of us got into this lark through tinkering about with things made by other people we’re more than happy for you to have a crack at reskinning the models. You’re more than welcome to upload the new textures to community websites for other people to download, so long as you don’t upload the shape files. Scenarios Obviously the most exciting thing to do with rolling stock is use it in simulations of real operations. If you’re a keen scenario writer we’ve set aside an area on our website where you can upload scenarios you’ve made using our stock packs for other people to try. The area is divided into three sections depending on the assets used; 1) Only using items from one stock pack and default items and routes. 2) Using items from more than one Fastline Simulation stock pack along with default items and routes, 3) Using items from one or more Fastline Simulation stock pack and other third party items or routes. Full details of how to upload and download along with other requirements can be found on the website at www.fastline- simulation.co.uk

Sounds for your Scenarios When adding the rolling stock to your own scenarios you should remember to enable the CommonAssets check box under FastlineSimulation in the Train Simulator 2014 editor, otherwise they will be very quiet. This is because we’ve created common sound sets for some items to enable easy updating across the product range and reduce the amount of space swallowed up on your hard drive.

Compromises As with any creative project compromises have to be made. The only one of note for this pack has been the allocation of all numbers in each body style series to each of the variants for each of the liveries to enable easy placement in the simulator when building scenarios. Naturally you can manually edit numbers as you include them in scenarios if there are particular ones you know existed in that livery. Leading on from this are the Loadhaul and large logo red and gold liveried versions. In the case of Loadhaul we are 95% convinced that there were some HEA hoppers repainted in Loadhaul livery but are yet to see a conclusive photograph. However, we have seen credible accounts of people that saw them or saw photographs of them! The large logo red and gold livery is likely to have been a one off applied to (361870 - an offset ladder variant) but we have supplied both body styles in the livery and full auto numbering just in case there were more or you just want to be more creative.

Help & Support In the unfortunate event that you find a problem or things won’t work we really do want to hear from you. A good place to start would be the support section of our website http://www.fastline-simulation.co.uk/support.html which contains FAQ and Tech Docs sections along with any updates or patches that have been released for our products. If you’d prefer a more personal approach making contact is simple - just start a conversation about your issue by sending an e-mail to [email protected] and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

More information & stay in touch If you want to know more about what’s going on at fastline simulation there are a few things you can do. WEBSITE To be honest you’ve already found the website at www.fastline-simulation.co.uk because you’ve bought this add-on! That said you can always say hello via the chat client if it’s online if you’ve got a quick question to ask or drop us a line using our e-mail address: [email protected]. THE BLOG Our blog can be found at http://fastline-simulation.blogspot.com/ and is usually the place where in progress renders and screen shots appear along with little articles about other things that are going on. TWITTER If you really want to know the tasks of the day, what’s really getting on our nerves, new stories that have taken our interest or just if we’re having a railway related day out you can follow our tweets at http://www.twitter.com/fastlinesim FACEBOOK ‘Liking’ us on Facebook is probably the best way to go if you want to really keep your finger on the pulse, updates to the blog and website are fed in and we even post extra pictures now and then with the added bonus that you get to comment too. Our page can be found at www.facebook.com/FastlineSimulation  Thanks The production of any product wouldn’t be possible without hard work, support and down right nagging. This pack is no exception and as such it’s only fair to say a big thank you to the families that allow us the time to do this/enjoy the fact we’re distracted and out of their hair for a bit! The scenarios in the pack are the responsibility of the Scenario Builder who has great patience when changes to rolling stock necessitate changes to the scenarios (some of which are his own fault!) and has spent way too many late nights with Train Simulator and a stack of period documents turning out authentic scenarios for you to enjoy. The other key element are the testers. It’s safe to say this is probably the best team of testers that’s been encountered for train simulation projects. They test thoroughly and speedily, communicate well, continually offer opinions and guidance and share the common aim to strive for quality. This is the sixth add-on we’ve managed to get to the point of no return, (ok, release as we’re sick of the sight of it and releasing is the only way to stop the constant tinkering) so a big thank you should go to our family and friends for their patience and support with our playing trains!

Bibliography D Monk-Steel, P Bartlett and T Mann, ‘BR Air-braked Coal Hopper Wagons’ in Model Railway Constructor Annual 1987, C Leigh ed. Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1986, p. 31ff

Copyright The shapes, textures, modelled assets, scenarios, scripts, manual and any other elements that collectively form this expansion pack are © Fastline Simulation Ltd. 2014 all rights reserved The contents of this expansion pack may not be modified, reverse engineered, uploaded, redistributed or made available for download without the written consent of Fastline Simulation Ltd.