This was on the coal hauler scenario for Tees Valley. Feather is pointing right but I go left. Is it an error or Does it mean I’m going right after the station?
The feather indicates that at the next junction, you will diverge to the right. The line can go in any direction between the signal and the junction, it’s just unusual to have such a large distance (and a station) between the two
Cheers. Yes I wasn’t sure. I was stopping anyway but it just looked odd to me but I’m not an expert on signalling by any means, haven’t encountered it at all until TSW
The Signal is as far away from the junction as is required for you to brake down from line speed to the diverging speed limit. In your video you didn't even get to the junction the feather is connected to.
That's the theory. Doesn't always work that way in TSW. I always get caught heading west past Langley on GWE. All greens, then green with feather. No chance to get down to 40mph for the crossover.
Yea that is an error in TSW.. if the distance is to short to brake normally, you should have had warning signals ahead, so you expect a red signal, but then it is a green/yellow with a feather. Even more correctly those should have been blinking warnings ahead of a feather.
Thank you for that, I did wonder how a situation like that works in the real world. Other than a derailment of course!
Well in reality you know exactly which route you're going to take, so there aren't many unexpected feathers or linechanges anyway. And if they have to reroute you, you get informed ahead of it.
IRL, on high speed lines, if you're being diverted off at a lower speed junction than "line speed" then you'll go from green to flashing yellows, single flashing yellow, steady yellow with the feather and onto the new route, with the possibility of a red next (as you were talking of GWE). Your example indicates a left hand junction before that red signal...
Good explanation of approach control here: https://www.davros.org/rail/signalling/articles/junctions.html