NSW – The Tweed Railway, Byron Bay to Murwillumbah and Condong.

The final stage of the Tweed Railway should be available on the DLS soon.

Built in TRS2006, it can be merged with the earlier routes to complete this line in far northern NSW which is no longer in use.

Thanks to all content creators and to Dennis (DiRiCo) for infrastructure plans and to NSW Railnet for pictures and other data on the line. The routes have been built using TransDEM to create the basic route files from Google Earth images which have also been used to create much of the scenery. Google Maps streetview is also a great resource for checking scenery.

Hope you enjoy.
Peter.

PS – next on the list is a section of the North Coast line from Casino north to Kyogle and maybe to the border.

Thank you Peter.

I look forward to completing the line from Casino too Murwilumbah.

After merging the other 3 maps I had a lot of fun running sugar trains at Balina,did add more loops through the cane fields as well.

Norm.

hi peter
sounds very nice

it would make a nice steam train run when its all done

i will run it once you have completed it

cheers
ron

Beauty mate. Us Southerners truly are spoiled; with some brilliant routes to run, with some excellent qaulity rollingstock required to run on them.

I look forward to your latest offering when it hits the DLS.

Matt.

Sounds great, I have bitten off more than I can chew with the Glenreagh to Dorrigo line. I have MicroDEM the boards and layed most of the track. However I am have difficulties with the gradients as this line climbs 665 metres over a distance of 69m Km. LOL I should have it finished in a year or 2.

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Have just downloaded into 2010 no trouble,and will merge with the other 3 maps,when I get the time.

NormP.

There it is all done (impatience again) all four maps combined are now named "Casino to Murwillumbah"


NormP.

The Tweed Railway, Byron Bay to Murwillumbah and Condong.

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NormP said:

There it is all done (impatience again) all four maps combined are now named "Casino to Murwillumbah"


NormP.

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I have just done exactly the same Norm.

Great work as usual Peter, many thanks.

Craig

Warning for TRS2010 merging.....

Good to see some successful merging of all Tweed routes.

For some reason there is a corruption happening at the railway crossing north of the Mullumbimby station when you merge the Byron bay to Murwillumbah route (BB to M) into an existing route.



Ive never seen this type of thing before in any version of Trainz. As Ive only recently upgraded to build 44088 this is the only version of ‘10’ I can check.

However, Ive discovered that if you open the BB to M route first and then merge other routes into that, the corruption does not manifest itself. (weird !!!)

This merge corruption only seems to be present in TRS2010 (build 44088) and does not happen in TRS2006 (build 3092) or in TRS2009 (build 41844). These are the other version I have checked in my testing. Also when you merge all 4 Tweed railway routes (Casino to Lismore, Lismore to Byron, Ballina Branch and Byron bay to Murwillumbah) under Trs2006 and then import that into TRS2010(44088) there is no corruption.

Anyone who has been able to merge the BBtoM route into the earlier combined Tweed railway routes in build 43434 of TRS2010 please let me know. Ive had no problems merging routes in 43434 to date so maybe I’m flagging some merge issue/bug in build 44088.

Sorry for the problem with this route.

Thanks

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Hi Peter,

I have build 44088 and I have not seen this problem. When I merged the routes though I opened my Casino to Byron Bay first and then merged the new section, Byron Bay to Murwillumbah. In effect the opposite to you.

Hope this helps,

Craig

I had the same problem as shown in your screen shot,and have 44088.
Not yet viewed the rest of the extension to see if any more problems have occured.

Norm.

seeseeme said:

Hi Peter,

I have build 44088 and I have not seen this problem. When I merged the routes though I opened my Casino to Byron Bay first and then merged the new section, Byron Bay to Murwillumbah. In effect the opposite to you.

Hope this helps,

Craig

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Hi Craig,

Did you merge the routes in TS10 or in TRS2006 as I note from various threads people are having all sorts of issues merging routes in TS10? However, if they merge the routes in TRS2006 they just create a CDP and then import into TS10.

Cheers

Ron

Puffingbilly said:

Hi Craig,

Did you merge the routes in TS10 or in TRS2006 as I note from various threads people are having all sorts of issues merging routes in TS10? However, if they merge the routes in TRS2006 they just create a CDP and then import into TS10.

Cheers

Ron

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Hi Ron,

I merged the routes in 2010 SP3 (44088). There where a few problems when merging routes in 2009 which Auran tried to fix in 2010 SP1 but things where made far worse. Since SP2 for 2010 came out there are far fewer problems, certainly none of the track problems that where seen in the early merges in 2010.

After reading Norm's reply, I will also go over the whole route to see if I have any problems.

Craig

The tweed railway

Just for info to all...

All four routes in this series were built in TRS2006 (3092) using TransDEM to create the basic route files.
Ive been able to merge all routes in '06' without any problems and have copied the result into '10' without problems.
Ive also copied the first 3 routes individually to '10' (build 43434) and merged them without any problems. Indeed Ive been able to merge many times with build 43434 without seeing anything like this 'bug'.
About 2 weeks ago I decided to upgrade '10' to build 44088 and this went to plan without any issues.
Then after completing the BB2M route in '06' Ive copied into '10' to check the merge and whackoh the wierdo xing came up. Ive even checked it with a couple of different xings with the same wierd result afrter a merge. Ive also tried adding and deleting various basemaps, changing to 5M grid etc. I thought there may have been a problem with the NSW 1Track Xing I used but all other uses of the item in the routes were OK.

So I suspect that there is some corruption in the basic file from the way TransDEM builds the files or in the DEM file at this point but I cant confirm this

All I can say is that depending on how you merge the routes, you may or may not, get the corruption. Ive checked the remaining parts of the merged routes and this is the only bug found to date.

Any further info would be appreciated, particularly from anyone merging the routes in build 44088.
The only saving grace is that the bug seems fairly easy to repair - just delete all items at the xing and re-install, and that nothing else has been hit.

Peter.

Peter.

No more problems found between Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah.
None found between BB and Bangalow,so don't expect any to crop up further Sth West, Fingers crossed.

Norm.

Hi Peter,

I have just checked every part of the Byron Bay to Murwillumbah merged part of my route, which was merged in 44088, and there are no problems.

I have no idea why you have had the problem but it is always possible at the moment to see this. In the days of 2009 when you merged 2 routes, normally the one you where merging with would end up with huge drops to ground zero and not just at the merged point. It could be at the join of some, most or all of the baseboard joins. A huge problem to overcome.

Auran tried to fix this in 2010 and to some extent they did, but it created another major problem. Where ever your track meet an industry (of any type including stations) or a road intersection the tracks and roads would shoot off into "outaspace", all over the place, it was a nightmare. Have a look at the first link below for an image of what happened and then look at the second link for a sort-of solution.

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=57626&highlight=Merging

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=55795&highlight=Merging

In the second link John Goddard even posted about it.

Auran did for the most part fix this in SP2 (I think .... maybe SP1) and there are none or very few of the same problems. One thing I still see though is that "here & there" a small square area drops to ground zero. Apart from this it seems to be solved but maybe eventually they will completely solve it.

Craig

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