Hey all, I've always been wondering, what do those different speeds mean? Now, I know one is 120 or 160, but why is one above the track line and why is the other one below the track line? Has that got any meaning to it?
As said above, it's probably for spacing and enhancing the readability. Squeezing the 160 before the 120 wouldn't work as the 120 would be shifted to right, but then being on a different location. So it's best to keep speed changes within short portions of track on either side of the horizontal track line. However, The real curious thing of this screenshot is the first 160 km note and shortly thereafter the 120 km note and this without even a signal in between which could cause that, so it must be natively implemented speed limits on the route. What is the sense of raising the speed limit to 160, then needing go down back to 120 after a few meters again? Because of the short distance, you probably even can't reach the 160 km in time. Wouldn't it have better to completely drop the first 160 and the second 120 speed change? Also I don't quite understand why the speed limit is raised to 160 when approaching a station. A bit weird things going on here. Are these two mistakes done in track development?
It is likely that the train is pathed to change track twice to go to a different platform (such as from fast line southbound to fast line northbound to slow line southbound). The points will have a limit of 120. Points are built such that you only change one track at a time, meaning there is a short gap between the two sets of points you need. This short gap will have maximum track speed - hence the quick 160. In practice, your train is longer than that section, so you never actually get to accelerate. If that 160 was not there, traffic going straight would need to slow down unnecessarily.
Thanks for the info. I honestly thought I'd be something like one is the limit of my pathing and one is the general track limit or some nonsense like that.
