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Driver Not Questioning Route 24/02/2014 at 22:43 #56168
JohnMiller
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I currently have 1O14 0600 Glasgow Central - Bournemouth passing Carluke heading towards Carstairs & Gretna
On looking at the timetable the train should have run via Bellshill & West Calder but the driver never questioned being wrongly routed

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Driver Not Questioning Route 25/02/2014 at 00:37 #56172
Jsun
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Drivers may not question a route with a redundant path. But it seems Motherwell drivers don't seem to question routes.
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Driver Not Questioning Route 05/03/2014 at 19:14 #56586
Mad Mac
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Same happened with me. I realised after it passed Uddingston and ran it into P4, reversed it and regained the correct route via Mossend. Timetable shows a booked call at West Calder, which would be interesting.....
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Driver Not Questioning Route 09/03/2014 at 00:13 #56754
Guts
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I think this is because the route it went on is an alternative route.

Same thing on VicSE and Central, they can go on different routes than booked. This is also the same on NE Scotland.

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Driver Not Questioning Route 09/03/2014 at 10:57 #56766
dmaze
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Just so long as there's a wire over their head, Motherwell drivers don't seem to question anything. I had a train skip Wishaw (forgot to send it down the branch from Shieldmuir, didn't say anything), and going the other way I almost successfully sent a train from Wishaw to Motherwell via Shieldmuir rather than Holywell, which would have left it pointing the wrong way on the wrong track to continue via Hamilton (and instead hit the "reversing trains at Wishaw get lost" issue when I noticed it and tried to recover).
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Driver Not Questioning Route 17/03/2014 at 13:29 #57214
sunocske
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It looks like drivers never question the route in this sim. Never. None of them.

Is it a bug maybe?

Last edited: 17/03/2014 at 13:29 by sunocske
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Driver Not Questioning Route 17/03/2014 at 21:16 #57243
postal
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" said:
It looks like drivers never question the route in this sim. Never. None of them.

Is it a bug maybe?
Not a bug. The developer decided not to write wrong route calls into the data.

“In life, there is always someone out there, who won’t like you, for whatever reason, don’t let the insecurities in their lives affect yours.” – Rashida Rowe
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Driver Not Questioning Route 18/03/2014 at 07:58 #57276
sunocske
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Oops, then it's a real challenge
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Driver Not Questioning Route 18/03/2014 at 09:20 #57279
Peter Bennet
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I've since added a handfull of the more obvious ones, but from previous experiance it can tie one in knots trying to be too prescriptive and someone is bound to find a working from 27th March 1978 that went some route that's now questioned.

It's the same with timetable stepping which I'm looking at at the moment as it's once again possible.

Peter

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Driver Not Questioning Route 18/03/2014 at 10:48 #57281
Josie
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Surely your obscure working from 1978 would be timetabled that way though? So you can still code for wrong routes while sending a special train the right way.
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