Bridge strikes and rough rides

I've never came across a bridge strike on the Edinburgh sim...

Craig

Can't say I've experienced one on Cambridge either.

Major disruption for Edinburgh was the airport tripwire activating and Cambridge had an option for single line working during engineering.

Im not sure about the bridge strike option as it would require a lot of reverse engineering to add data for every over and under bridge, most of which aren't marked on the panel.

The rough riding seems a reasonable option to add, of course the other one to add there would be a driver reporting poor adhesion.

. . . regarding rough rides on track you've already got that in terms of TSRs, which is what would be put in place if one was reported.

I personally don't see the point of either. Bridge strike aren't that common & regarding rough rides on track you've already got that in terms of TSRs, which is what would be put in place if one was reported.

Lots of good stuff about the difficulty in regard to setting up something which would encompass every bridge on every sim, but what is the OP trying to achieve? The way I read it, the OP would like some variants on the failures theme to spice up the game and add a bit more realism at the same time. If my reading is correct, then needing the data for every bridge in every sim is over-complicating what is wanted. The OP's end game could probably be achieved with just a few bridges in the sim identified and enabled for the bridge strike scenario.

In regard to the marking of the bridges on the panel, what happens in real life. Presumably some sort of message arrives at the panel to tell the signaller that a bridge has been struck. How does the signaller identify which bridge it is and where it is located?

Lots of obstacles identified in this thread to having an all-singing, all-dancing solution but is that what is actually needed?

In regard to bridge strikes, Network Rail has a page on its web-site covering the issue. The most recent data is for 2017/2018 when there were 1801 underline bridge strikes and 132 overline bridge strikes reported. The most frequently hit bridge was bridge BGK/1568: Stuntley Road (A142) in Ely, Cambridgeshire which was struck 32 times.

So strikes are not common but some sites would certainly seem to justify their inclusion in the failure regime. After all, we have the tripwires for the airports in the McSims and how often are they activated in real life?

All bridges over the network be it road over rail, or rail over road have placards on either side with the bridge reference number, location & bridge indentificatopn number. The contact phone number would be the Network Rail control number responsible for the line of route control who in turn would advise the signalling centre responsible where the bridge strike has occured. The line(s) would be blocked to traffic until a bridge examiner had carried out a survey of the bridge structure. Once he has passed the bridge safe for traffic to pass over or under it then & only then would the lines be re-opened for traffic to pass.

Trainfan344 in post 113041 said:

Can't say I've experienced one on Cambridge either.

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(I seem to remember Clive speaking of a 'major disruption' element, which may actually be to do with broken rails etc. Either way, I'll change my post above.)

Seem to recall it only applied on the hard scenario setting which further limited the odds of finding it.

I think your Edinburgh sim had something similar, a fault on the airport trip wire which closed lines and then left an epic TSR in its wake IIRC!

Lots of good stuff about the difficulty in regard to setting up something which would encompass every bridge on every sim, but what is the OP trying to achieve? The way I read it, the OP would like some variants on the failures theme to spice up the game and add a bit more realism at the same time. <snip>
Lots of obstacles identified in this thread to having an all-singing, all-dancing solution but is that what is actually needed?