Where has the Virtual District Line gone?

[holzroller]

There's also a very nice book 'The 1938 Tube Stock' by Piers Connor & Brian Hardy, will tell you all you want to know and more. Piers and Brian did some other nice LT based books as well.

[xguerra]

There's also a very nice book 'The 1938 Tube Stock' by Piers Connor & Brian Hardy, will tell you all you want to know and more. Piers and Brian did some other nice LT based books as well.

I am aware of Brian, has done some fantastic books and has also helped produce those London Underground Past & Present DVDs from J&K. Guru of the LURS.

[KGBUssr]

The UndergrounD was full of little idiosyncrasies 'in the old days' and I guess much of this has been eliminated in the name of "efficiency" as there is far less character than once there was - with the retirement of the D78's last week the SSL stock is, well, all SSL S-Class now.............

As a total old fogey I much preferred LT when there was much to keep the enthusiast occupied in terms of variety, and it all seems to be ultra-standardised now and a bit 'meh' from the hobbyist perspective.

Taking 1971 as a year I well-remember, on the sub-surface lines there were a few Q's, CO/CP/R in assorted red/silver, and sometimes both in the same set! You had A60/62 on the Met. and the first of the C69 class on the Circle and what is now the Hammersmith & City.
Looking at the deep-level lines, there was 1938/49 stock, with and without the '58 trailers'; you had the 1956 prototypes that were followed by the almost identical 1959/62 stock, and the utterly dissimilar 1960 Craven-built trains with silver-painted standard trailers, and the modern 1967 stock which had been in use on the Victoria Line since 1968, and alongside the 1960 stock on the Woodford-Hainault section of the Central. So on that short section of the Central you could enjoy the oldest stock in service and the newest, all under ATO!

Briefly looking at buses, RT, RM family, RF, Merlins, Swifts, Fleetlines, Atlanteans, and as I lived near Chiswick works, there were still RTLs to be glimpsed over the wall as they had only recently ceased training duties.

A Red Rover (bus only) was a great treat, a Twin Rover (bus & tube) even better; the latter being a birthday treat circa 1968; strict instructions to phone home (pressing button B on the old type, and not inserting money on the beep-beep-beep type) at predefined intervals.......

Happy Days indeed.................

[yerkes]

Getting a little off the original topic, but as Piers Connor has been mentioned: I thoroughly recommend his book 'The London Underground Electric Train', fairly recently published. It's one of the most comprehensive and most detailed books I have read on the engineering and technical development of LU trains. I think it may have developed from his excellent series in the LURS magazine (many of which are available on the LURS website).

Back on topic: now that the D stock has gone in real life, at least this route will allow it to live on a little while longer!

[xguerra]

http://lur.boards.net/thread/116/route-release-imminent

Release imminent.
Not specified where but I am guessing on that forum.

[deltic009]

If you follow the link above there is now a download link available for the virtual district line. I am currently at work but would be keen to hear peoples experiences and feedback on the route.

[casrtt]

I have downloaded and installed it as per instructions and have no 3rd and 4th rails. In some place's the rails look stuck together, you cannot see what path you have at points, and no gap for the wheel flange at crossovers.
Does anyone else have this issue.
I thought I take the D78 on the Turnham Green to Richmond section on the NLL. The editor will not let me make the D78 the player service ?

[749006]

I'm the same in not having 3rd or 4th rails and in a lot of places no track.

RW Tools notes the following items missing
\Assets\Kuju\RailSimulator\RailNetwork\signals\UK Colour Light\UK_Mod_Track\UK AWS Ramp.bin
\Assets\Kuju\RailSimulator\RailNetwork\signals\UK Colour Light\UK_Mod_Track\UK TPWS Grid.bin
\Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway\environment\terrain\decals\eby12 x1 y2.bin
\Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway\environment\terrain\decals\eby12 x2 y2.bin
\Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway\Environment\Terrain\Decals\RCHMD 02 X2 Y1.bin
\Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway\railnetwork\track\iowtrack04_third_rail.bin
\Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway\railnetwork\trackrules\lulltddistrictrailway.bin

In the installation I have not got a folder called VirtualDistrictTeam

Anyone else having a problem?

Peter

[xguerra]

Same here.

Seems they forgot to upload everything in their VirtualDistrictTeam provider as its not present in any of the .rwp files in dropbox.

Sent Ross a PM.

[twirlycactus]

I fixed the third rail problems by creating the Vitual District folder structure, and copying the third rail files from the IOW folder (the route appears to point to the wrong place for these)

A few problems with the D78, the headlights do not work (only the tail lights) and it struggles to get past 25mph even with the weakfield flag down.

[J1o2h3n4]

As above- no VirtualDistrictTeam folder.
Regards JohnT

[michaelhendle]

Did you install all the rwp files that were in the RWP Packages folder? just a thought,there is a hell of a lot of these files.

Mike

[xguerra]

Did you install all the rwp files that were in the RWP Packages folder? just a thought,there is a hell of a lot of these files.

Mike

It's definitely not in there, unless it was added in the last few minutes.

[749006]

I fixed the third rail problems by creating the Vitual District folder structure, and copying the third rail files from the IOW folder (the route appears to point to the wrong place for these)

Tried that fix.
Created new folders \Assets\VirtualDistrictTeam\London Underground District Railway and copied the RailNetwork folder from \Assets\RSDL\IslandLine\
Now I have third & fourth rail but the track is still missing in some places - Ealing Broadway has no track at all - just conductor rails

But RW Tools does not find any missing track so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.

Peter

[JasVick]

Hi folks, I seem to be completely missing the virtualdistrictline entire directory. I've installed all the rwp files and route files but appear to be missing this. I've even checked the download again and it's the same. It also says route properties is missing when it isn't.

Any ideas? Thanks for any help in advance.