fourth option is needed ? As Driver As Guard / Conductor As "Second Man" / Second-Seater As Passenger To arrive at a station to drive a train out, would i not have to go there On Foot at a specific time? At the moment TSW5 has the "hop but decline" kludge to get off a train in order to board NOW as a passenger, but we need a feature, not a kludge. If we were allowed to enter stations thru the main doors from the city, we would need to have the timetable available to us as info or else go to ask boss what train we are assigned to ... including riding from here at Kassel up to Fulda to work a train to Frankfurt .... and some may want to start their working day on Brighton Main Line as a passenger on East Coastway .... or arrive as a passenger in Hagen or Aschaffenburg to take over a train to .... I don't want to have to build a scenario to do this ... i want to travel to work within our timetables ... but will there be a seat for me on the train ? As for arriving in Freiburg or Luxembourg on my morning tram, that should be TSW6 ... Freiburg as transit town and Lux. with free trams !
to be clear: when we go to a station on foot, we cannot see the timetable, and even if we try to get it, on East Coastway i have several layers/ passenger trains ... what we need to commute, is a proper timetable for a given hour at a given station. It requires a second mode maybe, "Commute" for a route as opposed to "On Foot" ... it is not a free roam, but a working ETA. I call this the ETA problem ... to get us to our work as a driver or guard or second-seater In Time to prep, load passengers, wait for our signal. Of course if we commute for a depot start, someone may have to drive us there if we chose to startup up a train Cold. Again, an ETA. This is what makes TSW a train World sim. Not that the Rails are Ours, but that the Station tiles and their Hourly scheduled trains are ours. Right, Boss ... er, Station Manager ? The Dispatcher says what ? I must dead-head to Where ?
The Commute option would let me select which Platform to go to, unless i can enter the station In Time. On Foot does not offer this.
There's nothing stopping you from hopping on a train to a depot and starting a shift as a driver. Or taking over a shift else where. As a driver you should know your shift pattern. You wouldn't necessarily turn up for a shift and await instructions.
