BVE: Question on Trains

[Enthusiast]

Hi guys. I have a question about BVE 4 for anyone that might be able to answer it. I'm new to BVE and am having trouble getting routes and trains that I download to work.

I go to a site, download a route, find a train, and download that. Okay, fine so far. But, most of the downloads that I see for trains and routes have each separately, they don't come together in a self-installing package like the "Uchibo" line from the BVE 4 site. So I have no idea which train is supposed to work with what route or whether any train can use any route. Furthermore, when I try to open a new route it then almost always says something like "can't find train". How do I know which train to download for a particular route and where do I put the train files so that when I try to open the route file it opens with a train?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Enthusiast

[guillyman]

Hi, Enthusiast and welcome to the forums!
Yes, you can run any train in any route, but there may be issues with the timetable, eg LUL1938 stock cannot be expected to keep time on a HST route! But technically it's possible.
Most routes and trains come with self-extracting files which place everything in the correct (default) directories, in the case of BVE4 the trains will go in:

C:\Program Files\Mackoy\BVE4\Train\

Here you will find your train folder names, e.g. HST, Class90, etc.
If you open your route file in a text editor like notepad you will see near the top a line which says something like:

Train
.Folder HST

In this case the route will look in the path given above for the folder called HST. You can change this to any train you wish, as long as the folder exists in you default directory.
I hope this helps. If you have any more problems you can do a lot worse than looking in on the trainsimcentral forums here:

http://www.trainsimcentral.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1227

Best regards,
Alan.

[Enthusiast]

Thanks guillyman for the help and for the welcome.

[halenbeek45]

if you looking for more routes and trains:

http://www.bve.cz/

He have the most routes and trains of the 'world lines' to be driven.