It is relatively normal that "beginner" players who only have a handful of german DLCs have some runs easier than expected, as they may be missing lot of traffic around. The german content is overall extremely linked through, and I can imagine that to get some mixed trains to show up, you may easily have a requirement for like 5 different DLCs to have all the wagons unlocked. But then there are people like me who own all the content, have all the layers universally unlocked, and then it's rather uncommon that somebody would have more traffic than me, that's why I was so surprised It is probably linked to some delays in the beginning of the run (I am suspecting the PZB starting mode, which on the ingame 442 lasts rather long and keeps you limited to 40 km/h, where I would release from it once the train passed end of junctions and speed up to 100 km/h line speed). It's okay when that happens, but if we manage to track down how to start the nicer and more challenging experience, it's better for all, specially if it just cost you 30 seconds of waiting somewhere to get to it
I think this was the reason as I slowed down quite a lot to about 40 KPH when approaching Priestwitz due to that freight train waiting for me. I think I thought that I would have to wait for it but it turned out that I had priority and it was waiting for me. However slowing down for it caused me to miss my platform slot as Coswig and made for an enjoyable and busy run.
But what made you think that? You should have had a flashing green with a yellow 6 underneath, which tells you you need to be doing 60km/h from the next signal, and the fact it's flashing green means that next signal will be showing at least some kind of proceed aspect so you wouldn't need to slow down any further than 60km/h.
