I watched the review, you make some good points. Don’t worry about people criticising it. HST on the Great Western route :) The only thing you...
Haha, I was waiting for you to see this thread. I remember when I first joined the forum, whenever there was a silly suggestions thread with no...
I don’t have the route yet but I’d like to know 2 things: 1. How quickly are you taking full power when departing a station? 2. And when you’re...
Of course, with the pantograph down (or engines off), your main compressors will not be running so you will see your main reservoir deplete slowly...
In real life, the procedure below is how you would dispose of a Class 395/800. The ones in bold is what you can do in TSW: 1. Log out of TMS 2....
Yes ghawk2005, you’re correct. In real life, leaving Slough, a turbo would be doing about 65mph at Langley. In the game, it’s about 77mph. In...
I have noticed a lot of threads in the suggestions area on the forum and I think people should read this before making a thread as a lot of them...
In real life, disabling a safety system is extremely serious and would never be done without the permission and consultation of the...
Yes, I’m obviously making it up.
Here’s a video of a West Coast HST on the DC lines from 1993. As HSTs aren’t fitted with tripcocks (and AWS/TPWS are not operational), they were...
No. It’s because there is a greater risk of a wrong side door release by pressing the left hand door release buttons when station is on right hand...
With regards to anything that causes the emergency brake loop to de-energise* and therefore leading to an automatic emergency brake application,...
haha, yes I can’t believe it either. To be fair, its probably more for low speed crashes like hitting the buffer stops or low speed derailment at...
With regards to saloon lights, on modern multiple units, you’re unable to turn off saloon lighting. So even on empty coaching stock, lights in the...
The 3 step check is referring to the following: 1. Do I stop here? I.e. am I booked to call here or am I non-stop? 2. Am I at the correct...
The correct answer (for definite, not just guessing) is that it’s a crash pad. (And yes, it’s hard to believe. Any of the answers above would...
[MEDIA] Enjoy :). Skip to 1:02 if you don’t want to see it all
8 coach HST with a good set of power cars and good conditions will get to 125mph at about West Drayton in real life. It will vary depending on...
Yes it is. Independent brake is the same as loco brake. There are also other names for train brake such as automatic air brake, etc... What’s the...
You’ve got two types of brakes: 1. Train brake 2. Independent brake (As well Parking and dynamic) Do you know where the above 2 are and have you...
Except the fact that Avanti West Coast doesn’t actually go from Crewe to Shrewsbury. They do have a couple of Shrewsbury services but they go from...
If you go into journey mode, select a service. Then quit service by going back to menu. And then you’ll see lots of additional services in...
As per rulebook, you must test the brakes at the first opportunity in the driver’s journey (not train’s journey). So let’s say you’re leaving...
I was speaking more generically not Paddington specifically which is why I said ‘Perhaps’. In other words, it will depend on location, conditions,...
By West Coast Railways yard, I take it you mean just after Ladbroke Grove (the turning towards North Pole/Old Oak Common) not the West Coast...
There is no restriction with only one power car but it would take a hell of a long time to get to 125mph on one power car and ideally need a good...
16 miles isn’t accurate. Leaving Paddington, you should be able to get to 125 with a good set by West Drayton which is about 13 miles. Leaving...
Thanks for your reply. Wow, I’m very excited and I’ll be sure to get TSW 2 in the next few days. For those that have been on the forum for a long...
Hi, After seeing the thread(s) about HST being underpowered in TSW 2, I decided to check it out on YouTube because I haven’t gotten around to...
There is no first class
The weekly ‘we need Class 800 on GWE” thread doing the rounds. But you’re new to the forum so you’ve got an excuse ;) A couple of points: 1....
What do you mean by you ‘cancel the tilt alarm’? So the flashing ‘tilt not available’ light comes on and you cancel that. Then the brake comes on?...
They’ve got infrastructure issues too. They may have got away with it on GWE but the West Coast relies on these a lot more: 1. Preliminary Route...
The bigger question is, what on Earth are these?
Class 221s too. With tilting trains in the UK- 390s/221s- DTG will have to overcome some challenges: 1. They will need to implement a speed...
Just an additional point as you’ve got a Class 390 in your picture, Class 390s have flaps on the left hand door release buttons. So you would have...
As far as I know, this problem seems to happen on most traction including Class 166, Class 377, Class 66, etc... DSD/AWS/TWPS needs to be isolated...
With regards to point 2, it makes sense to have traction added too. Some networks have lots of traction so the original route is unlikely to have...
Good to hear. Still be aware if you’re going onto platform 9 at Reading, you’ll get a TPWS brake demand halfway up the platform. I’m not sure if...
Yes, in TSW you need to isolate safety systems in the rear/non-driving cab(s). I think it’s the same if you leave DRA depressed in the rear cab,...
It’s very hard to say what the problem is. You need to isolate DSD and AWS/TPWS in the rear cab (which you say you’ve done). When you say...
Is this platform 9 at Reading? This is a known issue for years and DTG have not been bothered to fix it. The grids halfway up platform 9 will give...
So there’s only 2 signals. I’ll go through each one. The first signal, which is on the left, applies to your train. On this signal, there are 2...
At 2:18, there are 2 signals- so I don’t know what you mean by centre one? Generally speaking, your signal will be on the left hand side and I...
I don’t understand. Do you mean at the double yellow, you get an AWS warning. And then at the single yellow, you get another AWS warning? Or do...
Its not really an issue of reliability but more suitability and effort to change it. For 4 aspect signalling, there are 3 signals (YY, Y, Red) to...
The AWS? The AWS will go off (“warning indication“) once regardless of whether it’s a 3 aspect, 4 aspect, 2 yellows, 1 yellow, or red and it can’t...
There’s so much to route learning but just with regard to signals: 1. The type of signalling in an area. E.g. absolute block or track circuit...
In real life? It would be down to route knowledge. A significant portion of driver training consists of route learning. Even as a qualified driver...
On most forums, you’re unable to change your username. If you contact the moderators/admin, they can do it for you but they’ll probably only do it...
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