Wicked TT as always Pascal

Glad you like it, we aim to please. Good luck if you are solo I know what its like when I was testing it. Best I achieved was x1.3 on speed anything more was getting a bit too much at times.

Got up to about 06.00 and then had to give up. Trains coming out of my ears . But I would like to have a go at this one in a multi-player as it's very good mate.

Moonraker, this is a difficult timetable to run on your own. I know from testing it. However the easiest way to deal with things is to slow the sim down a bit. Like I mentioned in an earlier post the quickest I could run at was x1.3 speed. As I worked on this are that helped, but for anyone who is new to this area they would struggle. Not wanting to put people off from downloading & playing this timetable it is really busy & inless you are a well seasoned SimSigger then you would start to struggle after 0600.
That said I tend to think this timetable is better for multi-play & the 2009 timetable supplied with the sim has about 112 more trains in it, but there is probably more freight & shunting in this timetable. When playing this timetable in multi-play whoever gets assigned to 'Centre' panel really needs to know what they are doing as blockages will soon build up in view off the high number of freight trains requiring traincrew relief at Landor Street in both directions & he has to regulate closely with the person on the 'North' panel. When playing I tend to run freight on the mainline towards Landor Streetm but cross them over onto the Goods line at Washwood Heath No.1 & once the passenger traffic starts I send all the freights onto the Goods line at Castle Bromwich Jn, where you can hold an early running freights so they don't stand at landor Street for any length of time. The area has a very heavy volume of traffic in view of the fact that Birmingham being the 2nd largest city has a high density of commuter traffic & the freight traffic is heavy due to it close proximity to Bescot & the traffic into & out of Washwood Heath & the other local yards at Bordesley. For those who like busy timetables this one is a must, but I know it can get frustrated when you are playing on your own & you get over-whelmed with trains. Maybe timetable writers in future can grade timetables based on the number of trains in them if the SimSig management create a variable scale whereby anyone wishing to download a timetable can check the grading of the timetable so they have an idea of how busy the timetable is likely to be if they are quite conversant with the area. My apologies to anyone who has download this timetable & found it too busy tio play on their own, but that's the way of it unfortunately.

Half-past six in the morning is as far as I got before I had to slow the sim down. Hard but enjoyably so.

Takes me back to my Oxford days when I was still driving. Signed Stratford on Avon and Tyseley when we had a scud (158) on hire from Central Trains for the Oxford - Bristol services.

I thought a scud was a 153?

A nickname picked up from Worcester men I believe when they still worked to Oxford on the North Cotswolds. Apparently because they could (And usually did) break down anywhere. A mate of mine failed with one right across Wootton Bassett Junction on the up road coming back from Bristol which caused a bit of a kerfuffle

Im upto 1120 on this timetable and really enjoying it but im laying it on normal speed, it gets a bit hairy at times.

Cracking timetable tho its got a bit of everything.

Matt

ps i was under the impression that 155/158s were scuds and that 153s were skateboards.

Hi I'm up to around 8am (fantastic TT Pascal) but have found trouble with 9T23 From Tyseley Depot going to Caledonia Yard. I've called the yard for the slot which they say has been given but the indicator light hasn't changed to white. I know the ground frame is involved at some point during the move but wasn't too sure when as this bit isn't in the manual on the Wiki page.

I know the probs are with my signalling rather than the TT itself. Any tips please!

Tim