Jubilee Line for BVE4

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First of all, a HUGE apology to everyone for the massively delayed route, things really should have been done sooner, however it is now released and I appreciate the patience you guys showed. May I also take this opportunity to apologize to the London Transport Museum for the series of computer trouble due to overheating, primarily caused by bad route coding in the initial version (now abandoned). Furthermore, I owe an apology to those who visited the museum during this time hoping to have a drive on the Jubilee Line Simulator and found it switched off as the computer was broken. This rewritten version which is much more efficient has been installed in the museum’s new computer and hopefully should not cause further problems to the LTM. I want to thank the staff at the museum for their kind understanding during the unfortunate incident and Tom Beevers for liaising with them to solve the issue.

The Jubilee Line is a non-fictional London Underground route. The route will be released in stages. The first release is part of the new Jubilee Line extension which run from Green Park to Bermondsey. The route is set in the present era using the LT1996 stock.

After a dispute kicked up between authors/websites and the news received from the LTM, I decided to drop out of the joint project and to recode the entire route completely myself. Most objects have been partially or wholly rebuilt with brand new textures where it needs to be changed. The use of highly efficient codes and new object encoding techniques meant that loading time is kept to absolute minimum. High frame rate is also achieved during play on a half decent PC. The current downloadable route has absolutely no relation to the problematic initial unreleased version which I have decided to drop.

The route is written by Kelvin Liu. 

The latest version, v1, consists of the following features:

• Extremely high use of photorealistic textures.
• Highly accurate stations.
• Use of TSC v.2 authentic LUL signals.
• Use of standard BVE4 features (i.e. power rail cutouts).
• Crystal clear announcements.
• Inclusion of PEDs movement sounds.
• Dynamic timetable which changes at every station.
• Minimal loading time.

The Jubilee Line is non-fictional London Underground route, covering 22.5 miles (36.2km). The line is coloured light grey on the Underground map.
Starting life as a branch of the Bakerloo Line, it became the Jubilee Line in 1979 when a newly constructed section from Baker Street to Charing Cross opened. Formerly, the Bakerloo Line joined at Baker Street and a new junction had to be built to connect the old and new sections.
The line was subsequently extended through the London's financial district of the Docklands in the mid 1990’s providing easy access to and from business hub. The extension was opened in 1999/2000 and the Charing Cross terminus disused. Before the Jubilee Line extension, the Docklands area suffered from relatively poor public transportation. The Jubilee Line extension was designed to be efficient and airy and utilizes natural skylights where possible for platform or other public areas.
One of the most unique features about the stations on the Jubilee Line Extension are the Platform Edge Doors (or PEDs), which stops people from falling onto the track. However their main purpose is for their ventilation and air management properties.
With state of the art stations in the extension and the newest trains (the 1996 stock), it is arguably the most modern line on the entire London Underground network.

Progress

This is the most advanced London Underground BVE route to date. The entire route has been completely rewritten from scratch using photorealistic textures for almost everything. It also comes complete with automatic announcements, new tunnels, and of course, a new signaling system. The announcements states Stratford as the destination, but the route currently only goes as far as Bermondsey for the time being. I did not alter this for economical reasons as I will have to revert it back the Stratford later anyways.

The see the level of realism achieved in this BVE route, please see this video on YouTube.

Due to the way which BVE works, it has not been possible to perfectly syncronise the PEDs closing sound with the train door closing sounds. The reason is that BVE may close the doors a few seconds earlier or later than the specified departure time, therefore the two sounds may be slightly off-sync at times. In reality, the PEDs close immediately as soon as the chime starts. The opening sound however, is always in sync.

There are two route files included, a default one for the 1996 stock and another one for other TSC Underground trains (currently assigned to the 1995 stock), in case you wish to run the route with another train. The reason for this is because that the 1996 stock does not follow the TSC BVE Track Sound standard guidelines, so I had to work around the (incorrectly made) train. If you attempt to run the default route file with another train, you will get incorrect run sounds, so therefore modify the alternative route file if you wish to use another train.

The route is now ready for download (thanks for the patience guys!).

Brand new screenshots of the Jubilee Line have been uploaded, taken in late July 2008.

Downloads

The following traction is required for the Jubilee Line. This train is hosted at James Galbraith's website*. Thank you to Dan Lewis, Miles Codrington and Steve Green for this production.

- LT1996

* - Please note that BVE Routes & Trains is of no relation to this website whatsoever.

The table below has the link to the file you will require for the Jubilee Line. You must download all the files below for the route to work.

Please note that this route may struggle to run on lower spec. computers, due to the graphics included.

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