Sheffield Sim

First of all, units are held overnight on Platforms 3 and 4 and also the Down Station Sidings, is there any way to replicate this or would I have to path units from the sidings to there?

Finally, I'm also stuck on what services are operated by which unit types (I.e 3-car 158 and not 2-car and similar occurances). Is there any way to maintain the high level of detail without just assuming (there's a big difference between a single and double Voyager!)?

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Finally, I'm also stuck on what services are operated by which unit types (I.e 3-car 158 and not 2-car and similar occurances). Is there any way to maintain the high level of detail without just assuming (there's a big difference between a single and double Voyager!)?

As far as I know: TPE services to Cleethorpes tend to be a single 185 or two 170s, Hope Valley stoppers are 142s, and EMT Liverpool/Norwich services are two 158s.

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Finally, I'm also stuck on what services are operated by which unit types (I.e 3-car 158 and not 2-car and similar occurances). Is there any way to maintain the high level of detail without just assuming (there's a big difference between a single and double Voyager!)?

As far as I know: TPE services to Cleethorpes tend to be a single 185 or two 170s, Hope Valley stoppers are 142s, and EMT Liverpool/Norwich services are two 158s.

Even then, there are (were?) Liverpool-Norwich trains with only a single 158 - seemingly always rostered on the busiest train of the day.

I'm midway through writing a Sheffield October 2013 timetable myself. There are some sources of information and some you can use deduction for. Searching the web can show photos of individual services. Published timetables showing divides/joins will give you useful information - for example a Liverpool-Norwich with a Nottingham divide must be a pair of units at Sheffield. Working out the full diagrams of individual units also helps - for example the fact that Northern Rail have a Class 153 that starts its day at Cleethorpes but ends up elsewhere tells you that there's at least 3 separate Class 153 units trundling around the Sheffield area on a given weekday. The XC HST diagrams are probably the easiest of the lot!

I didn't realise someone else was writing this timetable, if I did I wouldn't have started it! Perhaps I should give up and focus my efforts on the Summer '14 timetable?

I have been using RealTimeTrains and the WTT but both have restrictions on the data. I'm having to rely on my own knowledge along with my fellow enthusiast friends' knowledge.

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I didn't realise someone else was writing this timetable, if I did I wouldn't have started it! Perhaps I should give up and focus my efforts on the Summer '14 timetable?

I have been using RealTimeTrains and the WTT but both have restrictions on the data. I'm having to rely on my own knowledge along with my fellow enthusiast friends' knowledge.

Well really that's up to you! But it makes sense to avoid duplicating work, and I think that was the original reason behind the Forthcoming Timetables topic on here - although you'd have to read back to last November to see I was planning to do Sheffield Oct '13.

My Sheffield one is one of three chainable tts; the others are Worksop and South Humberside. I thought of doing Trent but was wary of the amount of Nottingham layout changes; and I saved the Real Time Trains info for Doncaster on the same day for if that sim ever emerges. If you'd like to be involved in testing send me a PM. My own local knowledge is about 5 years out of date, which is why online photos are useful for train formation references.

I disagree with the 50\50 split of diagrams on the EMT services. I haven't seen a single unit diagram since eastcroft recieved extra units. Also steamer XC do double some voyagers for balancing purposes in the morning and evening.