South Humberside 1982

Yep, unfortunately it isn't on the loader so unless you have squirrelled it away or can get your hands on a pre-loader version somehow it's a little bit niche (digging through an old hard drive in my case).

As well as a manual for the time-table I'll add a few addendums to help in identifying the entrance/exit points and work arounds in the event of difficulties. One extremely heinous example is while Entrance E and Scunthorpe West Yard are implemented as TT points and exits they are not entry points - particularly grating as West Yard was the speedlink yard and Entrance E was used for the coke trains. One successful work around I have got is the Gunhouse banker (I'll post more in due time once I have got a little further into the TT and seen how protracted use affects it. While there were only 3 mandatory trains needing it, the conditional TT shows it as working nearly non stop throughout a 24 hour period shuttling back and forth from Gunhouse Junction to Frodingham.

Thanks for the interest shown so far. I'm currently working towards getting a full few hours for testing purposes so if you still have a copy tucked away I hope it will be worth the effort.

The first Donny to Lincoln was a loco hauled with a timing load of D280, which seems to match up to a lot of timing loads of parcels jobs. For the purposes of this exercise I'm assuming this may have been a 31 plus BSK and vans.

bazzmund in post 152472 said:

The first Donny to Lincoln was a loco hauled with a timing load of D280, which seems to match up to a lot of timing loads of parcels jobs. For the purposes of this exercise I'm assuming this may have been a 31 plus BSK and vans.

In case your WTT does not have the conversion tables or you had not realised....

D280 is the timing achieved by a 45/47 hauling 280T - ie load 8
It will be a lot less for a 31, maybe only load 4, and the train could be even shorter and it is just that the WTT used the next worst timing load.

Newspaper trains! An under appreciated facet of railway operations. Unfortunately there are a number of mysteries to me surrounding the workings of the Lincolnshire paper trains. I may have worked out a potential diagram which for the purposes of the sim would work for train lengths.

The first Donny to Lincoln was a loco hauled with a timing load of D280, which seems to match up to a lot of timing loads of parcels jobs. For the purposes of this exercise I'm assuming this may have been a 31 plus BSK and vans. Vans sit all day at Lincoln then contribute to 3B02 St marks to Peterborough parcels. May have resulted in a build up of BSKs at Lincoln but there was a WO Clifton - Ferme Park mega train stock move that picked up at Lincoln and dropped off at Peterborough west yard, so 6 BSKs added to the consist.

1D07, the Bane of my existence. P'boro west yard to Grimsby, then empty to Clegg. I think this got combined into the mega train to Donny, then dropped off to be combined into a Clifton - Ferme Park mega train to P'boro. Failing that there was a stock move from Red Bank to P'boro.

The tail load DMU is a tale of treachery and deceit - DMU(T) between Doncaster and Barnetby, DMU to Cleethorpes, then the return is DMU but footnoted to "convey trailing load SX".

Sometimes hyperfixation is a good thing...

Newspaper trains! An under appreciated facet of railway operations. Unfortunately there are a number of mysteries to me surrounding the workings of the Lincolnshire paper trains. I may have worked out a potential diagram which for the purposes of the sim would work for train lengths.

The first Donny to Lincoln was a loco hauled with a timing load of D280, which seems to match up to a lot of timing loads of parcels jobs. For the purposes of this exercise I'm assuming this may have been a 31 plus BSK and vans. Vans sit all day at Lincoln then contribute to 3B02 St marks to Peterborough parcels. May have resulted in a build up of BSKs at Lincoln but there was a WO Clifton - Ferme Park mega train stock move that picked up at Lincoln and dropped off at Peterborough west yard, so 6 BSKs added to the consist.

1D07, the Bane of my existence. P'boro west yard to Grimsby, then empty to Clegg. I think this got combined into the mega train to Donny, then dropped off to be combined into a Clifton - Ferme Park mega train to P'boro. Failing that there was a stock move from Red Bank to P'boro.

The tail load DMU is a tale of treachery and deceit - DMU(T) between Doncaster and Barnetby, DMU to Cleethorpes, then the return is DMU but footnoted to "convey trailing load SX".

Sometimes hyperfixation is a good thing...