Timetable Codes?

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    merlin#3725 New Member

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    So in timetable mode before I load into the game there are little codes e.g. On sand patch Y101, Y102.
    I think I have an idea what it is but I am not 100% so anyone know?
     
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    It is basically a code for each service so it can be identified. I don’t know exactly how the USA ones work. But for the UK ones it is:
    Example 1F11 Faversham to St Pancras
    The 1 stands for the fact it is a express/fast train.
    The F indicates it’s a train from or to St pancras to or from Faversham/Ramsgate
    The 11 is what number service that train is on.
    So usually the next service this train will be is 1F12.
    First part:
    1- fast/express train
    2- semi fast or slow passenger train
    3 - is a priority ECS
    4 - fast freight
    5 - empty coaching stock
    6 - aggregates or slow freight
    7 - freight doing no more than 45 mph
    8 - weather vehicles
    9 - pure high service
     
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    merlin#3725 New Member

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    Brilliant thanks dude.
     
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    No worries
     
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    In Sand Patch, a Y prefix stands for Yard: it's a shunting service.
     
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    9 is more of a "this train is doing something odd, watch out" nowadays. For example the Avanti Scottish services that go via Birmingham have a class 9 headcode. The 442s with SWR also used them.
     
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    For Sand Patch Grade, everything is a train symbol, which is what modern railroads use to identify trains on the line. Each railroad has its own way to label these, so knowing a CSX train symbol wont help you identify a Union Pacific Train Symbol (As they use different systems).

    As far as CSX symbols go, this list here explains them as this: http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/CSX_Train_Symbols#Alphabetical:

    The ones that apply to Sand Patch in game are as follows....

    G: Loaded Unit Grain Trains
    K: Bulk Commodity Trains
    N: Loaded Unit Coal Trains
    Q: Regularly Scheduled "Quality" trains
    U: Empty Unit Coal Trains
    X: Extra Movements
    Y: Yard Jobs and Transfers

    CSX I368 is the only one I don't have info on
     
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    kenobi#1878 Well-Known Member

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    9 also is thameslink
     
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    Could "I" be a manifest freight, (non-Q variety)?

    Haven't played SPG in a minute, so don't remember the specifics of I368.
     
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    The UK system is further complicated by whether the train is traveling inside a single region, or traveling between them. For example, 1F11 is staying within the Greater London region, so it gets an F for Faversham. But a Bristol-Paddington express would be 1A11, A representing Greater London, since it's coming from outside it.
     
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    It is a manifest train, and looking at the timetables a bit more, it may of been an L train not an I train (For some reason the l may not be capitalized in game)

    This would make it a "Q" but on an alternative schedule.
     
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    I'm not too familiar with CSX's symbol designation as I live on a BNSF line, and BNSF does things a LOT differently than CSX, but on all of the lists of train symbols I've never seen an L or an I, and I haven't seen any videos of the train IRL leading me to believe it's not a real symbol.
     
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    A non-Q (i.e. not regularly scheduled) manifest would be an Extra, X.
     
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    "
    Q Series: Regularly scheduled "Quality" trains
    • Note: All Q trains can run as L (Alternate schedule or terminals)"
    Q368 however runs Chicago - Selkirk NY and goes nowhere near Sand Patch. Q369 OTOH does run to Cumberland.
     

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