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First you contact the Signaller and advise him/her you’ve had a SPAD (in some cases you will have had a call from the signaller on the GSMR-R...

I can only speak for UK practice: In the UK applying the emergency brake will not cause a derailment or any other kind of significant risk....

I have to agree on heritage routes. I’ve never seen the attraction of pootling around at 25mph, whatever the traction. A great thing about...

Thanks, that’s interesting. Some sort of indication is needed of what the coal level is and what’s required, I feel. At the moment it just feels...

A thing of beauty! Perhaps one day…but it won’t be this route by the sound of it. Imagine Plymouth to Exeter, with the South Devon banks and the...

Hi Matt I tried a run using auto and didn’t get a Service Failure. I then tried a run using manual but I opened and closed the firebox every few...

Yes, it’s a characteristic of most modern UK EMUs and DMUs I’m afraid. Older stock had a narrower corridor connection (if it had one at all)....

I never touch the firebox doors. The tutorial video doesn’t mention them, and the comments I’ve seen on the forums suggest they don’t do anything....

Hi Matt, thanks for looking at it. I’m manual firing.

I suspect this is something different. The SPADs fix only applies to SoS, not SEHS. I’ve played many hours on SEHS on electric trains and never...

...And again - 3 steam journeys attempted since the recent patch, 3 'Service Failure' notifications - all the same. Issue summary: Service...

Since this patch I've played 3 timetabled steam trains - two on SEHS and one on Lime St - Crewe. All three have ended with 'Service Failure' with...

On the 323 on Cross City, when you stop at a station (or anywhere) and leave the reverser in forward, after about 10 seconds at a stand you hear 4...

I know what you mean. A few years ago I worked on a dairy farm, and it was my job to bring in the horses for milking. “I’m just going to bring...

Thanks Matt. Please could you fix the ones on the two steam schedules in SEHS as well. Both Up and Down schedules end in ‘Service Failure’ part...

And again… Issue summary: Service Failure message. No explanation for why. Platform: PC Game mode: Timetable Route name: SEHS Loco name: Jubilee...

Issue summary: Service Failure message. No explanation for why. Platform: PC Game mode: Timetable Route name: SEHS Loco name: Jubilee Service:...

That’s not the case in my experience (if I’m understanding what you’re saying correctly). West Cornwall has stop markers beyond the end of the...

Thank you for this. An eventful run, although for me it's rather spoilt by the fact that there's no schedule to run to. I wonder what gave DTG the...

The infuriating thing is, there's a lot that I really like about West Cornwall. The stations themselves are well re-created, there is the genuine...

As Rivet prepare to release their new route, on which they expect us to spend more money, it's probably a suitable moment to highlight that this...

Another very interesting class 465 run on SEHS is: 1A95 Ramsgate - Dartford Again, plenty of signal checks in this one. I must say, I only got...

There don't seem to be any issues with putting BR blue on anything, and as everything in the UK was (variants of) BR blue for many years, then...

Of course, it would be wrong of me to miss the opportunity to point out that there is a simple solution to this whole branding and licensing...

I don't mind if a train's unbranded, and certainly don't want to see developers shying away from particular routes/eras because they can't get the...

A very interesting run - thanks for highlighting it.

On Cross City: 1Z81 Penzance to Derby This is the special; a long rake, hauled by a pair of 37s, from Bromsgrove to Lichfield Trent Valley, with...

I think the rule in the UK is that a reduction in speed of greater than 33% should have an advance warning board. However, there are plenty of...

Well, given that over 4% of the population are colour blind, I suppose the answer to the first question is ‘hundreds’. The proportion of those who...

In real life, AC traction motors create more resistance than DC traction motors. The confusing thing is that a unit running on AC power can have...

Agreed, that would be superb. I have a copy of Ian Allan’s “Gradients of the British Main Line Railways” sitting next to my computer which I use...

For me it now never illuminates at all (which is better than before the update, when it was doing all sorts of weird stuff). It’s interesting how...

Don't forget that you can change the size of all elements of the HUD by adding to the bottom of the engine.ini file:...

I agree this would be helpful. The alternative would be the ability to bring up the gradient profile for a quick look at the next few miles,...

Me neither, but that's due to a fair amount of creeping around unnecessarily slowly in the vicinity of TPWS grids to avoid activations! To an...

Thanks Bescot - I hadn't realised the TPWS temporary isolation switch was functional until you pointed it out (I should have thought to try it...

In my opinion this sort of hounding of those in the DTG team who come on the forum to answer questions and give us information is pretty poor....

I commuted daily on these trains for years and I agree the sounds are excellent. In fact, the unit as a whole is first class.

On approach to buffer stops you need to go at no more than 10mph over the TPWS grids to avoid a TPWS activation. That is true in real life, and...

Yes, it’s very odd. DTG have always said that they can’t introduce delays of this kind into the game, because they don’t trust the ‘dispatcher’ to...

I just drove this in TSW3, and it was greens all the way. It was a bit weird because there’s still time allowed in the timetable for all the...

I mentioned this on the RailDriver thread, but it probably belongs here really. The 'Alert' button on RailDriver only works intermittently to...

Very interesting run, thank you.

I've found that on Cross City the 'Alert' button works in acknowledging the AWS only intermittently. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - no...

Overall, I’m impressed with the route. In terms of the level of operational realism (and partly going by the discussion on the stream) it really...

Ah. It’s a shame if this mod doesn’t work with TSW3, but not a surprise. It’s a complex mod and the last major TSW2 update also broke it. The...

Are you on TSW3? Maybe it doesn’t work with that. I’m on TSW2.

Or you can just mod the route back to the 70s, and then you can run in daylight too!

Or a little over… ;)

Thanks, Matt. This sounds more positive in terms of likelihood of mods working, and as ever I appreciate the engagement with the community by you...