Really? Which service/scenario? You always start in your cab with services, and do normally start in your cab with most scenarios although the occasional one starts outside the cab but nearby. If you can tell me what the service is I'll give it a crack. If its like that it should be reported by a Service Desk ticket. Paul
Bakerloo Route Learning video: For anybody has difficulties with speeds or wants to learn a "no Hud experience", i can recommend following videos on youtube. They are used to train real drivers. Following tutorials you can find in the channel. 1. Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone full lenght in 4 parts - incl. Explanation. 2. Harrow & Wealdstone to Elephant Castle full route incl. explanations. 3. Elephant Castle Shunting movements 4. London Road Depot movements 5. Lamberth North shunting movement 6. Piccadilly circus and paddington crossover movement 7. Queens Park shunting and shed movement 8. Willesden junction shunting movements 9. Stonebridge Park Depot shunting movement 10. Harrow & Wealdstone movement procedures This helped me a lot to create my own speed chart. I can even hold timetables now. And with "No HUD", its just the ultimate experience. Good luck
The route is in the BR363 DBB on the timetable menu, starts at 09:16. It consistently starts in the same place. I have tried a couple of other timed journeys and they seem to be fine, all commencing in the cab.
Thanks for confirming that, I am a newbie at TSW (old hand at Train Sim Classic) really, and didn't know if it was me or what. I signed up to your Youtube channel, it's very good - I have to confess I almost enjoy watching other players as much as playing myself. Anyway, I recommend it to others here.
Thanks for subscribing . Watching others is surprisingly cathartic although sometimes you feel like throwing things at the screen lol!! I had this particular issue happen to me live on stream today and another variant where I spawned next to my train just as an AI player drove it away. Well, I'm only assuming it was my train - it was what I picked from service mode!
How do you enable selected speed on the TGV? I've been trying to find out how to activate it and I'm still clueless. I've found the dial but turning it doesn't seem to do anything. On a related note, are you able to drive with AFB on the 766.2 on Riesa Dresden? I can't find any sort of switch to enable it.
There’s no AFB for the control cars but on the locomotives yes and for the TGV to enabled the selected speed it’s the selector on the right of the combined power throttle:
For the 766.2 there is no AFB - in the cab, the blanking plate is where the AFB lever would be if it had it.
Nice video LWDAdnane but why don't you use TSW2 Mod Manager - makes everything so much easier! If you're curious watch this and you'll see how it works
Thank you Paul, I used to use it in its early days, and had a few issues with it, so since then I've always done it this way. You can't really go wrong with this method, although admittedly it is a touch more complicated than using the mod manager tool.
I created a YouTube playlist with TSW(2) tutorials. DTG has such a list, but this only covers their own videos, e.g. the Rivet tutorials are missing. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa2JNNN51aoHlefzwI4kaPwbY0PJoVgOZ
Does anyone have a good guide to how the DLC is interwoven? I've seen a spreadsheet about it but couldn't make ant sense out of it. I understand that there are Route and Locomotive DLC. But I understand that with the upcoming DLC there will be trains from other DLC in it if you own that DLC. I think I even bought a DLC route HRR that has trains in the Rush hour Dresden route?
I am not sure I’d this is what you are after, but there are two spreadsheets about how German routes and DLCs combine. One is from Rudolf : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEvHQMhiPoWxttGSty197sJxNqjp4H-C/view This is not yet updated for the Dresden Rush Hour route. It is from his excellent set of TSW2 resources compiled here: https://www.hollandhiking.nl/trainsimulator/2-uncategorised/3-trainsim-world-downloads The other is from breblimator who also provides excellent TSW2 resources for us. It includes the synergies on the Dresden route as well as future DLC on the roadmap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W5-ueaP4-UmdhZMKpdH0yTADmY4gNyMw_dRNi86G57o/edit?usp=sharing
Yup that is what I'm looking for but made for noobs. I get headaches when I see spreadsheets. I'll have another look at the hollandthinking link. This game is harder to learn than I thought. Now that have the train driving basics, I need to learn to make sense out of the communities way of thinking. Train enthousiasts are a different breed it seems
A different breed. That's for sure. I'm planning out a set of short tutorials designed on understanding trains and managing them for non train people. There's a bit of work to do but they're coming .
Hi to all! Please advise which Steam edition to buy: Collector’s (Eastcoast, Rhein-Ruhr & Peninsula) or Rush Hour (Boston, Dresden, Brighton)?
Hi welcome to the forums. The rush hour edition has the better quality routes in my opinion, also the original steam edition is usually on sale every few weeks. It also depends on your interests in railways ie passenger/freight/USA/Europe. Mike.
Thanks a lot! First interest is British freight, but wish to try everything. Looks like I’ll take a Collector’s edition with additional Rush Hour season pass - it’s cheaper than buying routes separately)
If you are really into British freight, then the DLC to get - eventually - are Tees Valley Line, and Northern Trans-Pennine with the Heavy Freight Pack. Unfortunately all the extant modern UK routes are very passenger-centric, with a few freight services (always the 66!) tacked on.
Hello Friends, can someone tell me the meaning of all the colors contained in the Route Map, some I assume, others I don't know: Red: Line / Path Blue: Path to be covered; Light Blue: Season; Purple: Orange:
When I overshoot a station, pass a green light and get into reverse to the platform the light will have turned red. I understand that this is because the safety thinks a train has passed. When contacting the signaller I get a notification that my train has gone of path. I always presume that I will need to restart the game but is this correct or will the light eventually turn green?
I just have to note that TSW manuals are not really "shelfware" (which is, however, an interesting term) for those who, like myself, have two monitors. I use the second one to display manuals and maintain icons for them on it. What can and should be considered "shelfware" or, perhaps "binderware" are the ptintable documents you also mention. I tried something similar long ago, but they kept sinking to the bottom of my piling system.
The answer is - it depends, if the signal is between you and the station before you reverse its game over man... But if the signal faces you when you've gone back to the station then sometimes as Anthony Pecoraro mentioned it will stay red forever, but often I find the signal clears when I pass back through it. Its worth noting you only need to put one door into the stopping zone to meet the station stop objective. This is totally unprototypical but it works and as long as your lead car doesn't pass the signal to do it then you'll be fine you can just drive on after loading. LastTrainToClarksville I have two monitors as well, but my second one is usually running OBS, my stream, my stream notes and GoXLR and Elgato software and when I feel like it SmoothTrack for the head tracking so it is a little full for a manual, but hey each to their own. Make sure you respond (if you don't already) that you prefer manuals in the game survey. Paul
A very good question! Like when I got 'stuck' at a red light the other day between Gatwick Airport and Brighton!
here it does only do that when you cross a red light. Pretty sure of that because the first time I played this game I remember I waited like forever for the light to go back to green. And every time I overshoot a station at a light I have to restart it myself. No game over or mission failed ever appeared.
This was Anthony Pecoraro's response to a questioner who asked why activities don't end when the player's train leaves the scheduled path. I'd just like to point out what does happen in response to leaving the path. Very simply, all references to the next required destination disappear. The player may not notice this phenomenon for a while, but what's required is simply back-tracking until it becomes possible to return to the required path. More often than not, you have missed changing one or more switches, but setting that right may also involve reversing. If you've been really clever about saving, you may be able to quit the activity and restart it from a save point that precedes your error. This, of course, cannot be done by those who believe that restarting an activity from a save point is disastrous. In any case, I'm completely content that losing the path does not result in being bounced out of an activity and, frankly, I wish that didn't happen as a result of passing a red signal.
I always play with my community no better way to get tips and running red lights because I was reading chat :-P no but seriously I learned so much because of people explaining things to me!
I had an emergency stop triggered by TPWS along the way from Victoria to Brighton simply because I didn't pay attention, I was watching the scenery around the train. But how can I restart the BR 387? Tried many things for a long time......
Sometimes for me I put the actual brake into Emergency setting once its come to a stand and then just take the brakes off, Most of the time it releases the brakes once I do that.
You can’t do anything with a TPWS brake. You have to wait for it to automatically disengage which usually takes around 60-90 seconds in game. I have had same thing on southeastern high speed route with class 375 and class 395.
I have noticed, that the camera motion sway in cab view is too big, which makes the ride feel uncomfortable. The reason for this may be, that you can’t feel the actual g-force. But IMO, the driving experience improves, if you reduce sway level to 50%, or put ot off. (However, sway may improve immersion for some players.)
Can I ask, for what reason would you go ahead and make all these schedules? Is it so you can drive without the HUD, or for realism?
There are two reasons why I make these pdf timetables. 1. To continue on what DTG where doing in the early days is TSW. During the early days is TSW, DTG did actually make pdf timetables for some of their routes they made, even though it wasn't every route. But after Northern Trans-Pennine, they stopped doing them altogether. I tried downloading some that people had made online, but they where either not that accurate or hadn't been updated when new loco add-ons added new services to a route, so I eventually decided to go ahead and make some myself. This was something I especially took on when the TSW 2020 update came out, which added the ability to view the entire service schedule from the pause menu. 2. To help other people get around each route. This is the most important one for me and why I do these in the first place. You might have these routes that have 200/300/400+ and now even 1000+ services, but how are suppose to navigate each timetable if you don't have a pdf of every service laid out? Especially if your trying to navigate this route on foot. So by having these pdf's, navigating these routes on foot becomes a lot easier as you can spawn into a route at a certain station when a certain train is due or when a major action point is about to happen or you could even use it when driving as you don't just see the times for your service, but the times for other services that might be happening around the same time as yours.
Hey guys! Today I made a tutorial, teaching you guys how to properly brake downhill in the SD70ACe. It is different from braking downhill in a train like the AC4400CW which is why I made this tutorial. I also cover how to stop such a massive train. Hope you guys enjoy it! Video link:
I've done some quick tutorials for the equipment from Tharandter Rampe Dresden Chemnitz turning on safety systems and a brief drive. I've kept them all as short as possible. Tutorial 612 Tutorial 185 Tutorial 143 Tutorial 766.2 Tutorial 363
Hi everyone, I've decided to make a spreadsheet showing all of the different British routes that British trains/locomotives layer into, it is probably complete (until the next release). The link is here