This package contains four of the Southwold Railway wagons. They have been regauged from their original 3 foot gauge to 2′ 3″ to match my other narrow gauge stock. There is a box van, a flat wagon, as well as two and three plank wagons.
There is a version of each open wagon with fixed loads and loads that can be added. There is also a second brown box van.
The loads include straw bales, old style milk churns, and coal
There are also gravel and sand loads. The two plank wagon has an additional fixed load of mineral railway track panels. The three plank wagon has a fixed load of metal sheets. Finally there is a wagon full of boxes.
This package contains three interactive loading or unloading assets for coal, hay bales and milk churns. To operate the loads you need to click on the label of the churn, the hay bale or on the shovel. You can also press the T key. To load a wagon you need to be connected to it with a loco. These loads work with all the wagons, so once empty any wagon will accept any load. The coal load obviously looks best with the dirty interior of coal wagon.
Version
Date
Comment
1
June 2012
Original release
2
July 2012
Added new sound file. Changed loading of wagons
3
February 2014
Improved textures and new loads added
4 & 4a
August 2015
Sound upgrade with a sound fix applied in V4a
5
February 2020
Gloss black texture improved, better couplings, new loaders
6 & 6A
September 2024
New boxes load added to open wagons, sound files updated to include better distance fade. Version 6A repairs a fault with the fixed coal and sheet loads which prevented either showing up correctly for 3 plank wagons.
6B
January 2025
Update to resolve possible sound issues causing crash to desktop introduced in Sept 2024
7
March 2025
Resolved issues with wagon numbering including 0 being replaced with 9, fixed load wagons not being able to be renumbered. Added back a missing 2 plank sheet loaded wagon. Fixed an issue with handbrakes in some wagons. Adjusted the centre of many of the wagon models which had become corrupted causing further instablity when the wagon was loaded. Changed the way in which wagon weights are managed in response to the TSC Suspension Model known issue. All wagons now only have a single gross weight for a loaded wagon, which differs by load. For “loadable” wagons this means they now weigh the same as fixed load versions both unladen and loaded. This solved problems of the placement of wagons on the track and their response to being coupled. Gross weights for all wagons has generally been increased to now reflect a correct tare weight added to a realistic packing density (tons per cubic metre volume) for the materal being transported.