You may find this diagram useful. This is cropped from SimSig documentation, as they depict Absolute Block working as an overlay on a...
In the specific case of a single line, the incoming driver would not have authority to proceed beyond the section signal anyway, because he...
In this case, the extra height of both signals (note the left-hand one would be visible from the Driver's side of a train on the Slow line) will...
Which is why I brought up this topic with respect to Peak Forest, back when it was more likely to get a post-release patch. Players who rely on...
Fixed an issue where rain would stop falling on the front windscreen when travelling forward quickly. (This is a real bug on the BR204.)
You can use the external camera for it, to simulate having a shunter on the ground. Procedurally, you would start by applying the loco brake and...
There are two methods that work for me (on PC). One is to use sand (and shunting gear) to increase the 363's tractive effort. The other is to go...
It's 44 containers on flat wagons, total train weight around 1200t. Within the capacity of an RA7 Bo-Bo with appropriate gearing - up Beattock,...
Having gone back to it, I think I see where the problem lies. The Czech articulated wagons used for this intermodal train have some kind of...
I'm pretty sure some trains (BR110 + n-Wagens) can be seen calling at Bad Vilbel as AI traffic. Not sure if they're meant to be S-Bahn services....
I think I've had that combination before, and was just about able to complete the service using the Shunting gear. Getting up the hill out of the...
Leaving the brake handle in Step 3 would be the natural thing to do, and the most consistent with driving instructions for other BR types. The...
There was a regular feature, for about the last year or so of the Pacers' mainline service, where they would be operated in multiple with a 153....
Chalk it up to a quirk of the Westcode EP brake system. There is no conventional brake pipe, only a reservoir pipe to supply air along the train,...
Yes, the Westinghouse Brake Co. Ltd. was founded in Britain in the late 19th century, and later merged with the Saxby & Farmer company which...
The High Output Ballast Cleaner is reportedly 800m long (that is, half a mile), and includes 20 wagons to supply new ballast and another 20 to...
Distributor valves are the UIC standard for air brakes - which applies throughout Europe. I think even the ex-Soviet railways use them. Once you...
Ukraine has a number of "Children's Railways" as well, as they were a reasonably common feature of major cities in the Soviet Union. Ukrainian...
It's a phenomenon peculiar to triple-valve air brakes. When the brakes are released, the brake pipe is fully charged, and the auxiliary reservoir...
To clarify, this is just holding off the friction brakes of the locomotive, not throughout the train. If the driver really wants the locomotive...
The usual terminology in English is to "set a route". On the modern type of panel it is done by selecting the entry, then exit, signals (or...
The correct technique is probably to hold the independent brake handle in Bail-Off while making any train brake application with the dynamic...
Whether or not a rectifier is actually used, the series-wound motor is sometimes called a "universal motor" due to its ability to operate...
Actually, it does use DC motors. Very old locomotives (the ones with one huge traction motor per bogie, instead of a smaller one per axle) used...
Heck, I've seen games in which actual zombies behave more sensibly than TSW's passengers.
It's an emergency brake, plain and simple. It's also fitted to many trams, and on these you can always distinguish an emergency brake (which...
Oh yes, if you dig deeply enough you can find all kinds of weird combinations of rolling stock resulting from a "rescue" operation. There was the...
You'll notice that the same sign is mounted below actual Distant signals. According to the German logic, the sign itself is the Distant signal,...
On some of the Welsh lines, it was common practice to have a standard power-twin DMU (that is, a 2-car unit in which both vehicles are Driving...
Yes, I think that is the case. You might have to play several timetable services in a row to get a noticeable weather change, which is...
Real BR tickets were issued either as SGL A-B, or as a matching pair of tickets OUT A-B and RTN B-A. You would only need to present one portion...
There are a few scenarios and "loco preparation" services which involve watering and coaling the loco.
The 50mph section approaching Loughborough in the Down direction (Slow lines) is still unsignposted. It begins roughly where I'd expect to see a...
Well, there's still a bunch of unprototypical signal heads/aspects. That's an early known problem that I'm still seeing, and I'm almost sure that...
I'm definitely not getting this on the PC. So there is still a difference between platforms in this respect.
Just drove Leicester-Nottingham-Derby-Leicester in one session (three distinct timetable services), during night hours. At 2.8 miles approaching...
I rode these things on an almost weekly basis back in the 1990s. The large, upper-case text is a feature of the segmented LCD display mounted in...
The very idea that the release schedule somehow managed to outpace the distribution to beta testers is absurd. A successful beta test should be a...
One of the major items of Patch 1 was a complete overhaul of the signalling. I have seen no evidence whatsoever that that went in - all the bugs...
Okay, so what is that understanding at present?
Directly relating to the above list: TPWS activated approaching Nottingham (on the C line, approaching the crossover to the A line) during the...
I've just got around to trying a passenger train, in this case a HST on the "Chasing Yellows" scenario. This runs up the Fast line from Leicester...
I made a summary of how AWS magnets are supposed to work. This is illustrative of behaviour only, and may differ from how the real ones are...
Drove another 66-hauled night freight service in the opposite direction. Had a CTD, preceded by a long pause, approaching Leicester. As...
Having noticed an update come in overnight (on Steam), I picked up this route for the first time since the initial (broken) patch. The first...
Straight from Jane, JD, and Matt, in this very thread - though it would have been quite a few pages back by now.
As also noted several times in this thread, the PlayStation crashes are due to wonky art assets that were present in the original release, and...
AFAIK, one of the fixes that didn't make it into the PS5 build was the one to fix wonky art assets that were causing all platforms to crash. But...
This is a great reference site, though you do have to sift through a lot of obsolete signals from British railway history to find the ones in...
Well, they didn't call them "Maids of all work" for nothing.
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