Waverley P1

You are here: Home > Forum > Simulations > Released > Edinburgh > Waverley P1

Page 1 of 1

Waverley P1 18/04/2010 at 08:56 #1133
Tevildo
Avatar
28 posts
Another minor inconvenience (probably not a bug, as such). If a down through train that's timetabled to stop at Waverley P1 and leave via the NLL is a few minutes late, ARS will set the route all the way through the station (431 > 457 > 491 > 499) as soon as it becomes available. The train, rather than stopping at 457, will then stop at 491 on the loop line with a "Wrong platform" penalty (and some very annoyed passengers that will now have to get out at Haymarket).

I can prevent this manually by collaring 491 until the train has stopped where it's supposed to, but is there something in the ARS/timetable logic that can be tweaked to prevent it?

Log in to reply
Waverley P1 18/04/2010 at 08:56 #8605
Tevildo
Avatar
28 posts
Another minor inconvenience (probably not a bug, as such). If a down through train that's timetabled to stop at Waverley P1 and leave via the NLL is a few minutes late, ARS will set the route all the way through the station (431 > 457 > 491 > 499) as soon as it becomes available. The train, rather than stopping at 457, will then stop at 491 on the loop line with a "Wrong platform" penalty (and some very annoyed passengers that will now have to get out at Haymarket).

I can prevent this manually by collaring 491 until the train has stopped where it's supposed to, but is there something in the ARS/timetable logic that can be tweaked to prevent it?

Log in to reply
Waverley P1 18/04/2010 at 10:45 #8608
bill_gensheet
Avatar
1309 posts
Does making the stop Edinburgh Waverley (East) work ?

I think this was a 'lesser of the evils' choice in setting up ARS, otherwise you got trains for 11 stopping in SLE unless you had manually set onwards beforehand.

Bill

Log in to reply
Waverley P1 18/04/2010 at 11:37 #8611
Peter Bennet
Avatar
5355 posts
That's a problem with ARS it only knows what it's programmed to know- and that is not to set a route till the specified departure time- if that comes and goes and the train is not ready to start then that requires manual intervention- as it would in the real box. There is a problem with through trains stopping in the wrong place on long platforms like this (Cambridge is the same). That's just something you need to be aware of- as Bill says there is an option to timetable to the specific end of the station but in doing that you lose that ability to replatform easily. If I had built EDB specifically to be an ARS simulation I might be minded to spend some time looking for a solution but as it's only an aid to solo play you have what you have- the alternative was to take it away..... which I nearly did as it was more problematic than it is now till Geoff did quite a bit of work on the module last year..

Peter

I identify as half man half biscuit - crumbs!
Log in to reply