CKPR README

Introduction

Thank you for downloading the CKPR route for Train Simulator 2012.
It recreates the 30 ¼ miles of the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway in Cumberland (now Cumbria), England suitable for the period between 1930 and 1966.  
A short section of the West Coast Mainline from Penrith to Clifton & Lowther, and the Eden Valley Railway from Eden Valley Junction to Weatheriggs, and the section of the Cockermouth & Workington Railway from Cockermouth Goods Station to Brigham are also included for operational interest
CKPR is a route by Ben Yates (aka BDY26), and is made available on a freeware basis via various sites and subject to conditions set out in the disclaimer below. Please read that before downloading.You install files at your own risk on the basis of the disclaimer set out below. If you do not agree with this condition, please do not install any files.

You will need:
(1) Train Simulator 2012 from www.railsimulator.com which can be bought from retailers on DVD or downloaded via Steam. 
(2) a suitable spec PC – for guidance see UKTS FAQ and 
(3) the additional assets to be installed  as set out below.

Instructions:

Ensure you have all assets required below plus the CKPR Route and Asset Packs

Other assets are included in the CKPR asset packs and reskins by kind permission of their respective creators.

These assets install via .rwp or .rpk files via the Package Manager tab of the railworks loading screen. It is suggested that you install the assets, and then install the CKPR assets, then the route file.
THEN MAKE SURE YOU CLEAR CACHE
If this doesn’t make sense, then please see How do I install railworks files?  at the UKTS FAQ forum




Installation and Assets required

Payware:
Isle of Wight route from Steam or other retailers such as Just Trains 

Freeware:
AP1 Pack-Available free on Steam 
SAD’s superb Altenberg – Willdau “German Local” route from Railsim.de
CKPR Route pack from UKTS or Vulcan Productions 
CKPR Asset Packs from UKTS or Vulcan Productions

John Yelland

GWR Signal pack
20650

Richard Evans*
Asset Packs 1-3 for the Honeybourne Route
25777

25778

25780

*Includes assets by: Geoff Potter, Duncan Chaddock, Brendon, Paul Gausden, Philip Baines, Pete-Karma99, David Gibbon, Jeff Douglas, Jeff Layfield, Nail Wallace, Joeseph Whittaker, Kevin Mc Gowan

Chaddock Engineering
LNWR Signals
27101

Mark Brinton
SR Signalling kits:
Pack 3 Bracket Signals
Pack 5 Junction signals
Pack 6 Accessories

SR concrete panel fences
SR trestle platform kit
SR Signs
SR Cleaners Platform

22439
22441
19295
18278

18335

18196
18371 

Jeff Layfield
Animated sailing boat
Gas holders
Red Buses
AEC Mammoth
Austin 10s
Ford Popular

21212

24288
23156 
25583 
24548
25891 

Buckeye
Bridges

Hut2
24504

25829
25743 

Phil Baines 
Drums
23629

Brian Yeomans
Green Fodens

24306

Longbow
Falmouth Assets Pack 
UKRoadsigns
25965
19573

Kevin McGowan
Holy Trinity
Roads
23242
23419 

Jeff Douglas 
Chainlink Fence
Livestock Pens
21632 
21354

Problem Solving

If the route does not load, please follow the procedure below. Shut down TS2012 completely and restart between each step.
If you are not particularly experienced with Railworks, do have a look at the FAQ and Beginners forums at UKTS.
If you are having problems with this route and not with default problems, the official support at RSC is unlikely to be able to assist, and as they do not support freeware they are unlikely to respond.
1. At the tools tab in the TS2012 launcher, click “clear cache”. If this is not highlighted, exit and restart TS2012 and it should appear.
2. Ensure that if running any installers in Vista or W7 that you do so as administrator.
3. If you get a particular error messages, search UKTS, other forums or the internet for the message to see if others have experienced this.
4. Check methodically that you have all assets installed. The easy way to do this is to go to the packager tab and press “refresh”. (then make a drink and find a good book until it loads).Order the list so it shows packages installed most recently, and check against the list of downloads that all are correctly installed. Install any missing assets. Clear cache again.
5. The route should load with some assets missing (milk bottles will show in their place) but there are key assets for the route that will, if missing, prevent loading. In your railworks folder, go to Assets/BDY26 and check that folders for CKR and RWF are present as these are critical to the route.
6. Check that other routes load, in particular default routes to ensure that this isn’t a problem generally and not specific to CKPR.
7. Open Steam. In your games library, right click on TS2012, go to properties and “verify integrity of game cache”. Let this run and it will download any missing or corrupt default files. Note this will overwrite all modified default files – you may need to reinstall any third party sound packs or modifications.
8. If this doesn’t work (and it should do!) reinstall the route, assets and additional downloads again and overwrite, clear cache.
9. Download and install RWTools (can be used 21 times on a trial basis).Follow the instructions in the manual included to check the route and if it shows missing assets save the file as a spreadsheet. 
10. If you have been through these steps, please contact me ben (at) benyates.co.uk or PM BDY26 at the UKTrainsim forums with as much detail as you have plus the list of missing assets from RWtools and I will try to sort it out. Please note that this is all in my limited spare time so please be patient.

Acknowledgements:

I am indebted to the selfless generosity of a number of members of the railsim community for their support, provision of information, testing, creation of custom assets, permission to package assets and permission to reskin object for the route.
In particular, I would like to give special mentions to Phil Baines for creating a number of custom vital custom assets for the route including Penrith and Keswick station, Keswick hotel, and the distinctive bowstring bridges.
Thanks also to Phil (Eyore), Steve (Windebrow) and John Holden for provision of information on the route that isn’t available in any of the books.

The CKPR asset packs contains the work or reskins by me of the work of a number of people who have kindly allowed their assets to be reskinned and/or packaged either expressly or as stated in the readme of their respective products.
Thank you to:
Chaddock Engineering
Ed Casey
Phil (Eyore)
Geoff (Acorncomputer)
Jim(Nobkins)
Steve (Windebrow)
RSBarnes
RSDerek
Mundo
Moranb

Captain Bazza
Michael Sinclair
Grupo_STR
JBFried
John Lippai
JPetersJr
Karma99 (Pete)
Peter Ellis
Richard Maxted
SAD 

Scaliman
UKTS Freeware Pack Contributors
John (Partyspiritz) 
Great Northerner

Also thank you to the following creators for making their work available at UKTS:
Buckeye
Darpor
Decapod
Niall Wallace
JADsHome
Kevin McGowan
Mark Brinton

Jeff Layfield
Dave Brindley
Longbow
John Yelland

I am very grateful to Mark (Almark) and Cameron at Vulcan Productions, Manuel for creating some wonderful videos, Chaddock Engineering, Phil (PJT1974), Steve (Windebrow) and Jim Nobbs for their support, testing, helpful postings, advice and inspiration.

I’m also very appreciative of the fine folks of the UKTS Routebuilding Forum for their support, advice, and encouragement, especially to Keith Ross and Geoff Potter, whose guides and tutorials got me started.. I can honestly say I’ve read every thread, and it’s answered many a question of mine.
Thanks to Mike Simpson for reinventing the Swiss Army Knife that is RWTools, and to Jim and others for RWDecal – this route wouldn’t exist with them.
I have methodically checked the assets used and included using RWTools, but if I have inadvertently included without permission or failed to credit assets, please accept my apologies and contact me so I can put this right.

Use of Assets
The assets included the CKPR Asset pack remain the property of their respective creators, and if you wish to use these in your own route you will need to obtain their permission in the usual way. If you are struggling to contact them, please drop me a line and I will try to assist.
Assets reskinned by me will be prepared for release in the UKTS Freeware packs to the extent I have permission to release them. As they will have a different file structure I would refrain from using them from this pack. Those versions will also have more variants e.g. platforms will have versions with passengers from other eras.

Disclaimer
This route is supplied on a freeware basis, and requires a number of dependencies to run. Whilst I will try to support those who have issues with the route and its installation, I cannot guarantee it will work for everyone, though it has been tested successfully by a number of people on different machines.
The demands of TS2012 on mid range and lower spec PCs have been well documented on railsim forums. As CKPR is a detailed route in places, users may experience performance issues using this route compared to default routes. The set up of your machine, number of processes running, defragmentation state of hard drives, operating system and drivers will all affect performance. Please refer to the UKTS FAQ in the first instance if you are experiencing performance issues.
Installation of this route and its assets is at your own risk. You are advised to back up your railworks installation prior to installation in the event that problems arise so you can revert to a working version without loss of work or inconvenience.

The files have been scanned for viruses and malware using recognised anti-virus sofrtware before leaving my machine, but you are advised to scan all attachments before opening. I am not responsible for any damage to your machine, installation or software and any losses that result. If you do not agree to this condition, please do not install this route or its assets.The same disclaimer applies to assets created by others and included in the asset packs.
This route and its asset packs may not be shared or distributed in any way without my prior consent whether for money or for free. If you would like to host it on a freeware basis do contact me.
