Hi Guys
My name is Nathan and i am a first year student at the university of bristol.
Been playing this game since Sunday and I must say that i am very impressed with it.
Been plating Railworks and its former Rail Simulator ever since they came out but playing this game has shown me why the dispatcher on RW and RS can sometimes get stuff wrong
Never heard of this gfame until i stumbled across the tutorial which someone had placed on youtube and thought that that is more the simulation game which i want to play.
So i downloaded it and decided to start with bristol as that is my local area and i know the track between bristol and bridgewater very well but upon playing and epically failing (as i hadn't expected it to go almost up to cheltham, over to chippenham, and over to walse) i read though the site a bit more and decided to have a got at the royston route which thankfully was alot simpler than bristol
Now having a go at exeter but playing on a 1:1 speed on the beginner scenario. Going well so far. Unfortunately had to delete 2 trains so far because of them both wanting the same platform at exeter st davids but have taken steps to avoid that from happening again.
Anyway i'll rap it up for now as i've got 6S55, 1V29 and 1V35 to attend to
Thanks for such a great sim
Regards
Nathan

Hi Guys
My name is Nathan and i am a first year student at the university of bristol.
Been playing this game since Sunday and I must say that i am very impressed with it.
Been plating Railworks and its former Rail Simulator ever since they came out but playing this game has shown me why the dispatcher on RW and RS can sometimes get stuff wrong
Never heard of this gfame until i stumbled across the tutorial which someone had placed on youtube and thought that that is more the simulation game which i want to play.
So i downloaded it and decided to start with bristol as that is my local area and i know the track between bristol and bridgewater very well but upon playing and epically failing (as i hadn't expected it to go almost up to cheltham, over to chippenham, and over to walse) i read though the site a bit more and decided to have a got at the royston route which thankfully was alot simpler than bristol
Now having a go at exeter but playing on a 1:1 speed on the beginner scenario. Going well so far. Unfortunately had to delete 2 trains so far because of them both wanting the same platform at exeter st davids but have taken steps to avoid that from happening again.
Anyway i'll rap it up for now as i've got 6S55, 1V29 and 1V35 to attend to
Thanks for such a great sim
Regards
Nathan

Hi Nathan,

Welcome to SimSig. I am glad you are enjoying discovering SimSig and rather envious of you as my PC will not support Railworks (processor is too slow at 1.6Ghz). I am just an ordinary punter like yourself who occasionally hosts multi-player games when my broadband allowance permits. New blood always welcome to our late-night Vampire sessions! Only joking (about the vampires!). Hope to see you in a game soon.

Cheers.
Aaron.

Cheers mate.
I've got a little stuck now in which i had to place 6S55 (a northbound freight service) on the down loop at dawlish station because it was booked to stop at dawlish for 10 minutes to allow a HST which was a little distance behind it (about 5 minutes) to pass. Unfortunately i had to place the service on the down loop lines as the train was too long (length of 300m) to go into the up loop and clear the main line for the hst to pass. Now the hst has passed i am trying to set the route for 6S55 to reverse out of the down loop (as he can't go forward) and over the crossover onto the main up line. however it keeps on telling me that there is no route available even though the up main line is bidirectional signaled for when the down main is shut. Can anyone give some help as to how i can get 6S55 back on its trip to exeter riverside yard without going to extreme measures. If he wasn't suppost to go on the down loop i would appreciate being told that i have gone wrong and a pointer of how i can get him to clear the mainline (without having to adjust the train length) would also be appreciated.
Regards
Nath

Hi Nathan.

Just looked at your situation at Dawlish.

You could try the following:

Clear all routes near the area. Right-click on the points to set a route from the down loop to the up main. The points will have a blue mark when the route is ready. Now depending on the direction the "down loop" train is facing, reverse or shunt forward as appropriate - give permission to pass signal at danger if required. Once the train has moved over the points and is back on the Up line, left-click on the points (blue marks will be removed) , then set the route towards Exeter as normal using the main signals, then reverse your train to send it towards Exeter.

I hope this makes sense. Good Luck.

Aaron.

Hi Aaron
Wasn't able to get you solution to work for me unfortunately.
Heres a screenshot of my problem

1S67 is the Voyager which has past 6S55 and so 6S55 no wants to continue it trip on the up maing to Exeter.
Even though 6S55 is parked in the loop, it hasn't cleared the track circuit to the south end of dawlish warren and it also won't shunt forwards in order to clear the track circuit.
Thanks fo any help
Regards
Nath

F2 - right click on 6S55 - signalling options - reverse direction and it should reverse back to the Up Main. When it stops at the first down signal on the Up Main, repeat the procedure to reverse the train again and you should be able to signal it towards Exeter. You may get a message after your first reverse of direction saying that 6S55 is requesting authority to proceed. Give the authority so that the train can make an unsignalled move.

JG

You are "Route Locked" by the route that you set into the loop.

To try and explain in English, Route Locking is the white lines. They set for a particular direction. If you have white lines set for one direction you cannot set a route against it.
Route Locking is maintained by the track circuit being occupied (although you can't see that it's there because the track is showing red and hiding the white indication). To see this for yourself cancel a route immediately after a train has passed a signal. As it clears the track sections you'll see a flash of white prior to the track turning to it's normal grey state.

Now as to how to get out of your situation.
Your best bet is to manually set your points and then reverse 6S55 (using the F2 menu). Once it's on the main line, you can set your points to normal and reverse the train again.

Hope that is understandable

Hi

Just had a look at this and it looks like a timetable error. Either 6S55 shouldn't be made to stop at Dawlish Warren or it's too long. It doesn't really need to stop at Dawlish Warren. It comfortably gets to Riverside Yard before 1S67 even passes Dawlish Warren (and that's with stopping to report a wrong route set).

Incidently putting it into the Down Loop and making it reverse is very unrealistic and would never be done in reality.

FF

Hi
I gave those surgestions a shot but was unablr to get them to work so unfortunately to avoid delays to the other services i had to remove it.
is there something that i have to do like press a button or something before i can turn the up main into bidirectional working?
Nath