South Australia - Adelaide, Hills and South-East (Version 2.0)
by Allan Lownsborough

Overview

Over 6,000 hours of work: 1,300km track, 1,200km road and over 1,400 custom items - Allan Lownsborough's epic route - "Adelaide, Hills and South-East" extends from Serviceton in Victoria to Adelaide and beyond to Gawler in the north, from Mount Gambier in the south-east to Outer Harbour, from branches such as Victor Harbour, Mount Pleasant and Willunga to Adelaide. This is an incredibly detailed and polished route.

Overland from the wharf at Murray Bridge

The route comprises the following lines:

  • Adelaide - Willunga;
  • Adelaide - Northfield;
  • Adelaide - Henley Beach;
  • Adelaide - Outer Harbour;
  • Adelaide - Two Wells;
  • Adelaide - Penfield;
  • Adelaide - Gawler;
  • Adelaide - Mount Pleasant;
  • Glenelg tram line;
  • Adelaide - Mount Barker Junction;
  • Sandergrove - Milang;
  • Mount Barker Junction - Victor Harbour;
  • Mount Barker Junction - Wolseley;
  • Wolseley - Mount Gambier;
  • Wolseley - Serviceton - Kaniva.

Copyright: any and all issues have been resolved.

 

File download names and links

Complete Install of v2:

  1. Single-file installer
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_MSTS1_Setup.exe
  2. Multi-part installer:

    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.exe
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D01
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D02
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D03
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D04
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D05
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D06
    AU_SA_Adl_Hills_SE_v2_in_parts_MSTS1_Setup.D07

Note: you may need to right-click and "Save Link/Target As" on the .D0x files to save them to your hard disk instead of having them open in your browser.

Read "Additional Files Required" further down this page: you will require more files.

 

File Sizes

Single file

Download the complete installer in one file (best suited to broadband)
EXE:          350 MB (367,468,261 bytes)

Multi-part installer

The installer is divided into eight sections (all less than 50MB, the general dial-up time/bandwidth limit)

EXE:     47.9 MB (50,331,630 bytes)
D01 - D06:     48.0 MB (50,331,648 bytes) each
DO7:     29.0 MB (30,505,121 bytes)

 

Additional Files Required

  1. Xtracks 3.18 or higher
  2. Newroads 3.2 or higher
  3. You will need to have SAR rolling stock installed for the installed activities to work. These are all listed in the readme that accompanies the route: you may click here to download and/or read the readme (in PDF format).

James Brook has generously given permission for all his MSTS rolling stock, including the required SAR rolling stock, to be hosted here at the steam4me site. The files required are:

  1. SAR Dwf 4-wheeled louvre wagons
  2. SAR M Class Bogie Box Wagons
  3. SAR ObF 4-wheeled open wagons
  4. VR RY open wagons

Click on each of the listed items to commence downloading the wagons.

 

Tasks Required

  1. You must have all six default routes installed BEFORE running this installer. The routes just need to be present: they DO NOT need to be unstored if you use Trainstore, nor do you need to activate them if you use Route Riter's ON/OFF utility.
     
  2. You must have Xtracks 3.18 or higher installed.
     
  3. You must have Newroads 3.2 or higher installed.
     
  4. Run the installer by double-clicking on the EXE file you have saved to your hard disk. In the case of the multi-part installers, make sure that all eight parts are in the same folder, then simply double-click on the EXE file to commence installation. The route will occupy about 1.6G of hard disk space.
     
  5. Allow the batch file(s) to run to completion.
     
  6. The first time you run this route, there will be a considerable delay as MSTS "generates terrain buffers" - this is a one-off and subsequent use of this route will load normally.
     
  7. You will need to have SAR rolling stock installed for the installed activities to work. These are all listed in the readme that accompanies the route: you may click here to download and/or read the readme (in PDF format).
     
  8. Note that links may refer to the now defunct Railpage site, all files, including the required James Brook's files listed in "Additional Files Required" above are here on this new site: but of course you've already seen that, haven't you?
     

 

Screenshots

Blue Birds departing Wandilo (note the NG track to Glencoe heading around to the left)

Blue Bird near Mt Gambier

Mount Gambier Yard

Blue Birds arrive at Kalangadoo

The "Overland" arrives in Murray Bridge

Adelaide Station

Tram on Goodwood Flyover

Tram in South Terrace

Cookes Plains

Coonawarra

The "Overland" arrives in Keith

Bush fires

Pine forests in the south east

Another view of Mount Gambier yard

702 between Balyarta and Petwood

The "Overland" approaches Balyarta

Flooded track somewhere in the south east

Overland winds its way out of Petwood