Gwe - Class 166 Destination Display

Do you want all regions? I work at Bristol Parkway station so I could get you Central region destinations but they'd not involve represented routes at all

 

51 is used for Portsmouth-Cardiff services
03 is used by virtually every North Downs line service (Reading-Redhill/ Gatwick Airport/ Shalford)
50 is used by Severn Beach-Bristol TM services (may also be used for Severn Beach-Weston Super Mare)

 

Just going through some old photos and I found "Great Western Railway" with no route code associated

 

01 for Slough-Windsor and Eton Central

 

Afternoon.. I sign these units as a Reading based train driver.
The destination displays don't have route specific codes anymore, the numbers are just the first 2 digits of the TrainFX route code used for the service required.
For example the above;
0106 is the code for Slough to Windsor, so 01 is displayed on the outside.
0148 is the code for Twyford to Henley, so again 01 is displayed on the outside.

 

I take it you're not able to get access to a cab not in present service use to do this research? That would really be the best way to do it, but I'd imagine there's probably a real train driver (like LTV above) who might be a good source of this and might be able to get you a list depending on the locations being used for the product in question.

 

50 is used for any Severn Beach Line services (So Weston/Bristol to Avonmouth/Severn Beach)

51 is used for Cardiff - Portsmouth runs

I only know all that but I am gonna be Turbo hunting at stations so I could potentially see and note some numbers if I can

 

I have another idea. Try making a Freedom of Information request under Network Rail?

Only gives the first two numbers. We don't know if Cardiff-Portsmouth, for instance, would be 5105, 5146, 5192, or something else.

 

03 is used for Reading to Gatwick Services, this is for the 166 layer on London commuter

 

I was able to find this on YouTube:

Judging by it being at Cholsey, I would imagine 12 = Oxford - Paddington. At least, it's Oxford to somewhere.

 

Small question and it probably can’t be answered or confirmed yet, but can we change the PIS manually or will it be automatic?

 

That looks very promising, and I'd also like to thank you for reaching out to the community on this to hopefully make the PIS implementation on the 166 as realistic as possible.
I do have a (technical) question though, and would greatly appreciate an answer. The latest PIS system takes the stations from the Station Directory of the route rather than from a set list but with the codes being set depending on destination it seems like that might not be the case here. So my question would be whether the 166 also takes the destinations from the Station Directory and if so, how would that work with the codes?

 

I believe it'll be the same set-up as the way the 377 works - so semi-automatic. The destination is already set however you have the ability to change it via an up and down arrow and confirm selection.

I'm not 100% sure though so this may be incorrect.

 

could we get shalford on 03 too? there's a few terminating services from reading there each day

 

Has this delayed the GWE updates being released?

 

Not bothered about the destination displays but I am perplexed why the unit takes such a ridiculously fast time to accelerate which isn’t anything like true life AND the gear change speed is 57/58 mph NOT 64mph . If this isn’t changed in the update I shall continue to not use the unit.

 

I'm more bothered at not having RD support and the preservation updates. I stopped playing the game because of these things more than anything else but you're right the acceleration does need to be looked at.

 

If by RD you mean Rail Driver? I thought this was supported? I don’t have it so can’t say

 

Not all routes have Rail Driver support currently

 

No, alas still not supported or the HST either. There are others still outstanding as well. And this after DT saying how simple it is to do.

 

Any update on release of 166 update Adam ?

 

tbf I heard this ages ago but as sophieclarke said, any idea when?

 

I Can't wait to be able to select destinations on the 166 , It won't be to long until gwe gets updated , like I'm really excited for it to be updated

 

Since nat is leaving is the Community Team , I'm taking a complete depressed meltdown

 

I Don't understand what nat doesn't like me anymore , why in the god dam reason would she do that

 

What ever it is , just leave me alone , I signing out of Dovetail games i hear back from Natalie in the future

 

That's a little bit creepy and over the top.

 

Wow, You need to calm done and leave Nat alone.

 

When will this be ready?

 

Soon

 

You forgot the trademark. Soon™

 

I wonder if it has been delayed yet further with the latest update fixing things in their previous update?

 

yeah same

 

With regards to the physics, will they be updated to have an AI-controlled train set off in something higher than Notch 1? Unless this is actually by design and I just set off in Notch 4/5 in the vain hope that it'll get going faster

 

I hope the 166 doesn't disappoint but this waiting is unneeded. I notice that Carhcart is on sale but I'm not spending another penny until the GWE update comes out, I can wait but it shouldn't be like this considering how long we have waited for this.

 

How far would that go in the game as a service or would it go out of bounds from Slough?

 

Good idea. I completely agree with you

 

I think that's a Bit much but ok

 

TrainSim-Adam , Where is London Paddington???

 

You do realise that multi-qoute exists right?

 

It's right here.

 

Also here https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304410/Train_Sim_World_2_Great_Western_Express_Route_AddOn/
Also welcome from the TS forums lol

 

I ment what number is it on the PIS board?

 

Same!

 

TrainSim-Adam , are we going to get route anouncements???? If so that would be AMAZING!!!!

 

Seriously, can you please use one post to reply to multiple comments? There is a "Quote" function there. Hit it on posts you want to quote, paste the quotes into your message, type a reply below each, done.

Fair enough. I for some reason thought that didn't go all the way to Paddington, but it clearly does and thus he probably meant that one. I basically appeared here to join the 166 display discussion.