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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 12:01 #123481
Rockhawk
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I've noticed recently that often a pair of adjacent signals fail one after another. I don't remember this particularly happening in the past, so I was wondering if it's a change in behaviour in a recent loader version?

Has anyone else noticed this?

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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 12:12 #123482
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If you're meaning that one signal fails, then the one immediately in front of it then eventually fails too. Then it's happening over a few sims.

It's already logged on mantis. #27023 (Albeit for a different sim, but can reproduce it on several others too)

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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 12:35 #123483
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Always fun when it happens. I think I had an instance in Motherwell sim where a signal failed, the preceding signal held at danger then failed, and then that one preceding that then also lost red proving! 😖
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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 13:01 #123484
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incidentally, was it two automatic signals?
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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 13:11 #123485
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I believe it was in the cases I can recall (on Carlisle and Rugby Centre sims). This also happened in West Anglia when I was hosting last night but I don't know exactly which signals failed then.
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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 28/02/2020 at 18:13 #123490
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It's a core code issue and therefore could happen on any sim.
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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 29/02/2020 at 11:43 #123495
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9pN1SEAp in post 123483 said:
Always fun when it happens. I think I had an instance in Motherwell sim where a signal failed, the preceding signal held at danger then failed, and then that one preceding that then also lost red proving! 😖
I had it on Rugby South when I was running a Watford Junction to Rugby Central chain, it's a pain but it does give it a touch of realism although I do wonder how often it does happen in real life?

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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 29/02/2020 at 15:07 #123497
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Unless real world interlockings also cycle the aspect of signal in rear of a failed signal until they go pop as well, which is what supposedly happened here - I think there's another topic on this from a while ago, here: https://www.SimSig.co.uk/Forum/PostView/121066

Wouldn't surprise me if a few specific failure modes would cause something that looked similar, though.

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Signal failures often happen in pairs? 02/03/2020 at 12:14 #123535
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Don't think I've ever seen such a thing in real life.
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