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routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 10:46 #1

pudwink OFFLINE Tea Boy/Girl Posts: 2	hi all I have just started running the trent simulator and for the life of me i can not work out how to route a train out of a sidings for example eastcroft tmd into platform 6. i am sure it is something simple but any help please
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 10:47 #2

guidomcc OFFLINE Signaller Posts: 203 Thank you received: 28	In the F3 menu, make sure 'display all shunt signals' is ticked. HTH
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 10:54 #3

jc92 OFFLINE Local Operations Manager signalman, peak rail Posts: 1463 Thank you received: 226	for trains exiting eastcroft TMD, only the left hand shunt signal (261) needs to be cleared
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 10:59 #4

pudwink OFFLINE Tea Boy/Girl Posts: 2	thanks now i can start playing
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 13:45 #5

Josie OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Waving flags at trains Posts: 253 Thank you received: 45	This is one of the questions that comes up again and again with new players - and lots of sims/timetables are unplayable without using shunt signals because of things like sidings. Has anyone ever mooted having that box ticked by default, with an option to turn it off if you know what the implication is?
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 13:59 #6

Gwasanaethau OFFLINE Trainee signaller Posts: 86 Thank you received: 9	Josie wrote: This is one of the questions that comes up again and again with new players - and lots of sims/timetables are unplayable without using shunt signals because of things like sidings. Has anyone ever mooted having that box ticked by default, with an option to turn it off if you know what the implication is? When I started reading this post, I thought exactly the same thing.
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 14:20 #7

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Josie wrote:

This is one of the questions that comes up again and again with new players - and lots of sims/timetables are unplayable without using shunt signals because of things like sidings. Has anyone ever mooted having that box ticked by default, with an option to turn it off if you know what the implication is?

i dont actually understand why that option exists as i cant understand anyone needing, or wanting to turn it off, however im quite open to anyone explaining the advantages

joe

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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 14:40 #8

guidomcc OFFLINE Signaller Posts: 203 Thank you received: 28	When I first started playing SimSig, I started on Southampton and for many months whenever I had to shunt a train i would just PSAD each signal that was invisible to me - I was too scared to ask on the forum
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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 14:58 #9

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I think this stems from Simsig's origin as an IECC simulator. Real IECCs have both overview and detail views. I guess that in order to simplify things a bit (and probably because the overview layout takes up less screen space as well), Simsig's screen layout is based on that of the overview screens of the real thing.
As a compromise, you can then choose to show some of the features of the detail view, like point positions, track circuit breaks, and of course the shunt signals via the Settings dialogue.
Having said that, having the shunt signals to be shown by default does seem a sensible idea.

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Re: routing trains out of sidings 12 Apr 2012 16:58 #10

Lardybiker OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 492 Thank you received: 80	I will put in a Feature request
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