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Replies to telephone calls 18/01/2019 at 13:15 #114850
lazzer
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KymriskaDraken in post 114844 said:
lazzer in post 114839 said:
JamesN in post 114814 said:
Nowadays, with GSM-R and ways/means of the signaller contacting the driver I'd agree with you. But that's only a very modern (last few years) invention. Previously drivers would have to check in regularly as the signaller would have no way of contacting them.

Dealing with lots of calls is part of the job - tune it out and prioritise. There's no score for the fastest answered telephone call.
Simsiggers who have been playing for a year or more may have noticed that as soon as a train comes to a stand at a red signal, you receive a message notifying you that its waiting there (without a phone call). This, I can only assume, is a simulation of the driver pressing the SG button on the GSM-R, which is the way we let a signaller know we're stood at a red signal in the first instance if no emergency has taken place. So, as far as I'm concerned, the game already acknowledges that GSM-R exists, and that drivers are using it correctly.

But I agree that it would be nice to have a more flexible driver-to-signaller interface (as no doubt some manager or other on the railway would call it) so we could tell the buggers to stop calling in all the time. :)
In pre-GSM days the Driver was always on the SPT quickly if you stopped him by accident, but stayed in the cab if you needed him on the phone to give him instructions! Drivers always used to swear (and may well still do) that each signal was equipped with a pressure pad that allowed the Signalman to pull off as soon as the Driver set foot near the signal.

Kev
I'm convinced all signals have now been fitted with cameras, so that the signaller can pull of at the exact moment the driver reaches across for the SG button ...

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Replies to telephone calls 18/01/2019 at 16:36 #114854
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jc92 in post 114849 said:
I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45
That one is definitely on the cards to be done.

To explain to others why this is significant, this is a sort of hack where we give the arrival and departure times of the loop where the train sits solely to wait for other trains to pass. If there was no other traffic around, the train could leave early (perhaps not even stop), so we put it in as a "passing time". But if the train is stopped, then we would like him to "wait for booked 00:45".

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Replies to telephone calls 19/01/2019 at 09:31 #114873
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GeoffM in post 114854 said:
jc92 in post 114849 said:
I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45
That one is definitely on the cards to be done.

To explain to others why this is significant, this is a sort of hack where we give the arrival and departure times of the loop where the train sits solely to wait for other trains to pass. If there was no other traffic around, the train could leave early (perhaps not even stop), so we put it in as a "passing time". But if the train is stopped, then we would like him to "wait for booked 00:45".
Sure. But in the conditions prevailing in the late '70s/early '80s, you might have a favourite margin to get him out before 00:45. (Just as Jim Peplar, when he was Box Supervisor at Willesden PSB, would often get a Freightliner out at Wembley immediately behind a Northants semi, accepting the 2 minutes or so it would put in the following 'stations' before Harrow.) Or, more to the point, if you're having a really rough peak (it certainly would be rough if it hadn't cleared by 00:01 LOL) and know when you want to run him, you might want to make him wait quite a long time beyond 00:45 without being purged every 15 minutes. There quite often is a 'wait for booked time' option, I've noticed, but this enhancement would need to be additional to that. (or are we saying the same thing anyway?)

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Replies to telephone calls 19/01/2019 at 10:03 #114875
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GeoffM in post 114854 said:
jc92 in post 114849 said:
I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45
That one is definitely on the cards to be done.

To explain to others why this is significant, this is a sort of hack where we give the arrival and departure times of the loop where the train sits solely to wait for other trains to pass. If there was no other traffic around, the train could leave early (perhaps not even stop), so we put it in as a "passing time". But if the train is stopped, then we would like him to "wait for booked 00:45".
Geoff,

Just the ability full stop to tell a train would be useful. Imagine a train which is running early or has recovery time etc approaching a junction and you want to hold it to allow other trains to pass at the correct time. It would make sense to tell the driver to wait until he's due across the junction.

"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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