Excellent Sim.

I would love to work Leeds in real life, one of my colleagues has and has told me about it. But as a Grade 9 you do not work it all the area at once, it is separate workstations and has ARS ( wonder if that works well?). I am a Grade 9 myself so know exactly what you are talking about. Simsig is fun as a game, but signalling is a lot different in real life. I have had a lot of experience working London Termini so platform working is second nature to me and whilst Simsig is fun, there are no where near the different types of incidents that can happen. The service pattern for Leeds is straight forward, very little difference during the peak hours unlike in London where there is a marked change in service pattern during the peaks.

Playing Leeds was great for alternative routing, but I do wonder, with the way the workstation boundaries are, whether that flexibility is maintained in the station area of Leeds? There would have to be lot of conversation between the workstations else they could tie each other up, especially if ARS is on.

The holding of trains when incidents occur is a nightmare. I travel on the Great Northern route into Kings Cross and seen how it works when there is an incident, hardly anything moves. Something could be happening 30 miles away, but trains will be held in Kings Cross! In the south, because stations are very close together, we tend to hold trains in a platform and stack them at each platform ready for when the line opens.