Multiple Days

If you want to create it to run 4 days continuously you need to add 24/48/72 hours to the trains timetable. Simsig will convert this into the 24hr clock when playing.

Eg a train departs location X at. 02:05 everyday. It will need a Wednesday timetable, a Thursday timetable departing 26:01 and Friday timetable departing 30:01 etc.

jc92 in post 118361 said:

If you want to create it to run 4 days continuously you need to add 24/48/72 hours to the trains timetable. Simsig will convert this into the 24hr clock when playing.

Eg a train departs location X at. 02:05 everyday. It will need a Wednesday timetable, a Thursday timetable departing 26:01 and Friday timetable departing 30:01 etc.

The Friday train would depart at 50:01 and the Saturday at 74:01

bfcmik in post 118436 said:

jc92 in post 118361 said:

If you want to create it to run 4 days continuously you need to add 24/48/72 hours to the trains timetable. Simsig will convert this into the 24hr clock when playing.

Eg a train departs location X at. 02:05 everyday. It will need a Wednesday timetable, a Thursday timetable departing 26:01 and Friday timetable departing 30:01 etc.

The Friday train would depart at 50:01 and the Saturday at 74:01

Or even 02:05 > 26:05 > 50:05 > 74:05

I might be going about this the wrong way but I'm creating them as individual timetables so as per day Wed to Sat. Then hoping to merge Thur/Fri & Sat into the Wednesday timetable. Wed Starts at 00:00, Thur starts at 24:00, Fri starts at 48:00 & Sat starts at 72:00. Hopefully I shouldn't run into issues. But thanks to all with the advise.

HST125Scorton in post 118440 said:

I might be going about this the wrong way but I'm creating them as individual timetables so as per day Wed to Sat. Then hoping to merge Thur/Fri & Sat into the Wednesday timetable. Wed Starts at 00:00, Thur starts at 24:00, Fri starts at 48:00 & Sat starts at 72:00. Hopefully I shouldn't run into issues. But thanks to all with the advise.

Could you save yourself some work by using a single core 4-day TT, entering and then duplicating the trains that run every day with a time increment of 24 hours and 3 duplications? You might need to adjust UIDs and TDs in actions but it could save some time in entering the same data (+24 hours) 3 times over. You could then create the dated trains in separate daily TTs and merge them once the core data was in.

John Mills (Meld) and Pascal (58050) did something like that for a heritage TT for the exe Sheffield.where you loaded the core TT then merged in the daily add-on for the day you wanted.

Interesting !!

I do wonder how SIAM rail sims gets you to start any day of the week whereas Simsig and PCRail don't ??

axmh in post 118445 said:

Interesting !!

I do wonder how SIAM rail sims gets you to start any day of the week whereas Simsig and PCRail don't ??

It can easily be done with SimSig and has done. Most of the packaged TTs are for a specific day so wouldn't cater for a week but there's quite a few where decisions and rules govern which train enters depending on the day of the week which is either selected or randomly generated at the start of the timetable. For an example see Carlisle 79-80

jc92 in post 118447 said:

axmh in post 118445 said:

Interesting !!

I do wonder how SIAM rail sims gets you to start any day of the week whereas Simsig and PCRail don't ??

It can easily be done with SimSig and has done. Most of the packaged TTs are for a specific day so wouldn't cater for a week but there's quite a few where decisions and rules govern which train enters depending on the day of the week which is either selected or randomly generated at the start of the timetable. For an example see Carlisle 79-80

In the modern era though, how may days are that different to make it worthwhile ?
SIAM are mostly historical, where day by day variation was higher.

To take this further, could the 'DAYOFWEEK' decision, or whatever it is agreed it is called) be passed up to the start screen so it can be forced ? Some sims have day dependent seeds.
This would also provide a fix for chaining timetables as each sim could be forced to a day of the week before the clock starts ticking.


Bill

bill_gensheet in post 118621 said:

jc92 in post 118447 said:

axmh in post 118445 said:

Interesting !!

I do wonder how SIAM rail sims gets you to start any day of the week whereas Simsig and PCRail don't ??

It can easily be done with SimSig and has done. Most of the packaged TTs are for a specific day so wouldn't cater for a week but there's quite a few where decisions and rules govern which train enters depending on the day of the week which is either selected or randomly generated at the start of the timetable. For an example see Carlisle 79-80

In the modern era though, how may days are that different to make it worthwhile ?
SIAM are mostly historical, where day by day variation was higher.

To take this further, could the 'DAYOFWEEK' decision, or whatever it is agreed it is called) be passed up to the start screen so it can be forced ? Some sims have day dependent seeds.
This would also provide a fix for chaining timetables as each sim could be forced to a day of the week before the clock starts ticking.


Bill

It's possible to link decisions to scenario options eg if had weather is selected a snow plough train runs.