It just came to my head and thought it be a pretty good addition. So for example on East Coast Mainline, you get services that are Non-stop and will go through Peterborough or Doncaster, I thought it be nice if you could go on that service passing Non stop through Peterborough and Doncaster. Would it be a easy implication? I find it a shame we can't go Non-stop through one of those stations tbh *Cough Cough* Extension.. hehe. But anyways going back to my point I would like it if we could go on a service that is not scheduled to stop at either of those stations.
You can. Spawn on foot, stand in front of train and voilà. Only downside being you cannot drive it, nor get off it.
Okay Jack, for your sake. What I meant and if you had the common sense I was talking about Driving that service. It be nice if we could take over a service that is Non stop through Peterborough/Doncaster.
First off, no need for the attitude. Secondly, you said nothing about driving it (emphasis in bold mine): You said go on it, which as I said you can.
The only way I could see this working is if all none stop trains stopped and waited for a minute or two at signals before that start and end stations
But then they won't have enough room to accelerate to the full 125 mph... I can't think of how this can be implemented easily.
You’d need enough of a run-off at either end of the line - so you get the realism of passing the stations at speed. So the invisible barriers, scenery and track limits would need extending. as for the user experience, it could simply work with a ‘time is paused until you tap the horn’, and then you’re straight into driving the 100mph+ train.
This is what Zusi uses and it works without any issues whatsoever. Trains enter the simulation on first modelled signal (and can do so either stopped or in speed), and leave the simulation by stopping at the last modelled signal.
Nearly the same, I drove Doncaster to Grantham yesterday where service ended, presumably as it doesn't call at Peterborough. I didn't have time to try, but maybe you could return to free roam and hitch a ride the rest of the way past Peterborough.
Spawn on foot, walk to the edge of playable area, and then spawn in a train, and you can have a non stop run through the station. At Doncaster you can spawn trains in on the Leeds, York & Hull lines.
Just tried it and got unceremoniously dumped onto the track about 10 miles south of Grantham. How rude! lol
Whether there could be a system similar to a rolling start in a racing game, where you get x amount of seconds to take over a train already in motion. And then why it can't be like a scenario where once you complete that service by passing the last marker it doesn't boot you to the timetable screen. But maybe it's just the system isn't designed for that. I did a service on MML and a HST that should have been pretty much thundering through started from stationary, so perhaps it's a engine issue?
So you can currently do this with mods. In fact concidentally I've done this myself today. First, get the "out of bounds remover" mod online and then spawn on foot on Doncaster on the timetable. Then spawn a train and set a path going north of Doncaster towards York. Accelerate to 125mph and then delete the train and spawn a new one on the southbound track. Finally, set the route for this train to the tracks beyond the south of Peterborough, and you're all set. You can whiz through all stations at line speed unless you share my luck and a Class 700 empty stock move grinds you down to a halt at Peterborough.
