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| Phone calls when no platform is defined in the TT 25/04/2023 at 14:30 #151465 | |
jc92
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I've put this on the forum before logging on Mantis just to get peoples thoughts. In short, where no platform is given in a timetable, but it can be defined, should the signaller need to ring the station to advise them where its going in order to avoid any penalties? To give an example, in the derby 1992 timetable, most trains are given a booked platform, however some freight and Q path passenger services don't have one (its even shown as such in the station working book). In these cases its left open to staff on the day to determine what should happen. Its fair to assume that IRL the box would ring derby station/traincrew office to advise what was going to happen and where a train would meet relief. as far as I'm aware currently, if a train doesn't have a platform defined, it can't experience a wrong/opposite platform penalty? "We don't stop camborne wednesdays" Log in to reply |
| Phone calls when no platform is defined in the TT 25/04/2023 at 15:57 #151467 | |
GeoffM
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jc92 in post 151465 said:if a train doesn't have a platform defined, it can't experience a wrong/opposite platform penalty?Correct. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| Phone calls when no platform is defined in the TT 25/04/2023 at 22:50 #151478 | |
Phil-jmw
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jc92 in post 151465 said:Its fair to assume that IRL the box would ring derby station/traincrew office to advise what was going to happenAs I mentioned in the Derby FAQ thread recently, when arranging freight train relief at Derby the signalman didn't normally speak to the Station Manager, he would just ring the traincrew mess room on Platform 1 and ask if there was a crew there for xxxx, and if they were he would tell them where to go to meet the train (DY436/449/458 on the Goods lines or a platform number) and in roughly how many minutes. If there were no crew in there for said train then he'd ring 4 Shed TCS and see if there was anyone waiting over there. If that drew a blank the train would be looped (Burton, Sunnyhill, Broadholme, St Marys) until a crew made themselves known to the box (bear in mind, no mobile phones in those days so a driver in a taxi or the Toton service car couldn't ring to say he was stuck in traffic). So, for the purposes of the sim, while the telephone option is 'Derby Station Supervisor', think of this instead as 'Traincrew Mess Room Platform 1' when arranging where to send a freight train for relief. Log in to reply |