PC So About Those First 5 Class 52 Services... (diesel Legends)

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  1. WonterRail

    WonterRail Well-Known Member

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    So if you've recently bought the new Diesel Legends of the Great Western pack for Great Western Express, if you select the class 52 in timetable mode, when you are greeted with the service selection, you will see that the first 5 services all start at Midnight, even though if you actually go into them, you will just spawn in some random place along the line with no train in sight. Something like this:
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    However, after doing some digging into this, I may have found out what happened. Allow me to explain.

    With the class 52 services, there are four trains per hour, two of those services are non-stop runs along the line and the other two services are light engine moves to and from the depot at Old Oak Common. However, with some hours of the day, you will find that some services that go to the depot are missing:
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    But after spawning on foot around the same time these services should start, it turns out these 5 services do in fact exist. It's just that the start time for each of them are wrong. In reality, this is what it should look like:

    5A64 Return to Old Oak Common 9:20
    5A66 Return to Old Oak Common 12:20
    5A68 Return to Old Oak Common 15:20
    5A58 Return to Old Oak Common 18:20
    5A56 Return to Old Oak Common 21:20

    From looking at that the correct timings for these services, I can also see why they appear wrong in the service selection. It's because they start at the same time as the adjacent train that departing Westbound out of Paddington. With every westbound Class 52 service, the first instruction is to uncouple from the rear locomotive which then heads off to the depot. With this however, the these services won't active until after front loco has uncoupled from the rear which results in a bit of clash between services. This is why every other 52 service to the depot starts after the Westbound service has started. That didn't happen with these 5 services, which is why what has happened has happened.

    You can still do these services by spawning near the time of these services, taking a seat in the cab and then waiting for the service to start, but it's definitely an issue that should be fixed as it would make accessing these services a bit easier.
     
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