TRAINZ CARRIAGE & WAGON WORKS UK

UK CONTENT FOR AURAN TRAINZ RAILWAY SIMULATOR

Welcome to Trainz Carriage & Wagon Works UK. The site is intended to make it a little easier to find UK items created by an informal group that might be of interest. The majority of items are reskins of work by Dave Westwood, Elvenor, Jonny211, Paul Hobbs, Blue and decapod (Paul Gausden).

The objective of the group has evolved over time and these days has become to extend the range of items available by the technique of reskinning. Bob Sanders has been responsible for much of the research, and conversion to TRS2004 where required in addition to producing a number of the reskins. John Whelan has been creating the reskins for TRS2006 and there are many others who have helped with suggestions, research, testing and the conversion to TRS2004. The TRS2004 versions can be found on the Trainz Download Station (DLS) under bobsanders, IsambardKingdomBrunel or Johnwhelan.

The origins of the group started with Dave Westwood's LMS loadable flat and John Whelan's desire to have a GWR conflat with a loadable container. Dave very kindly gave permission to reskin the loadable flat and John built the first version of the container in GMAX to go on the back. Then an informal group developed as people sent an image with the comment wouldn't it be nice to have a..... The importance of taking the load off the reskinner by having others do the research, testing and coming up with ideas cannot be under estimated, without them the sheer volume and variety of reskins would not be possible. The positive feedback has helped as well. The quality of the initial images used affects the end product and it is not possible to add the ability to carry a load to an item that doesn't have the appropriate GMAX load point without modifying the GMAX mesh. However we made the basic decision that it is better to have a slightly less than perfect version than no version at all.

So now here are pages for each of the main UK railway companies (organisations) ie British Railways/British Rail, GWR, LMS, LNER, SR, and for Private Owners (including government controlled organisations such as NCB, War Dept., ROF, RNAD, Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) etc) and horse drawn road vehicles. Models for pre-Grouping companies will be found on the page for the appropriate post-Grouping company eg Cambrian Railway under GWR, LNWR under LMS, GER under LNER, SECR under SR etc. Joint railways will be found on the pages of both of the joint owners eg SDJR will be found under both LMS and SR. Each page shows the description of the vehicle.

The New Content link below will take you to a page which will show both newly available content and content which is expected to become available shortly.

OCTOBER 2008 - NEW TC3 CONTENT PAGES