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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 07/04/2021 at 07:25 #138437
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452 posts 		Crossing #4 is Inverhaggernie No. 2 UWC.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 07/04/2021 at 11:22 #138438
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40 posts 		How can you create these
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 07/04/2021 at 12:27 #138439
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Online 		JamesDaniel in post 138438 said:
How can you create these
Presumably 'Paint' or similar basic graphics software. They're only mock ups, not live sims.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 07/04/2021 at 12:31 #138440
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373 posts 		yeah a program called S-Box to make the basic layout, then paint to add colour and other assets!

and thanks for the correction!
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 07/04/2021 at 13:18 #138441
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5269 posts 		andyallen4014 in post 138439 said:
JamesDaniel in post 138438 said:
How can you create these
Presumably 'Paint' or similar basic graphics software. They're only mock ups, not live sims.
You can also use a text or word processing program and the SimSig font.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 17:45 #138497
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373 posts 		Next Up, a sim i'd very much like to SimSig and could result in some big (HUGE!) chains!
Its the small though VERY busy Healey Mills! covering the line from Wakefield (west yks) through the now disused (mostly) Yard and then onto the thornhill panel where we have the intensive 5 TPE an hour plus all local Northern services thrown in, and through Mirfield and into Huddersfield! then we have the small and simple line towards Halifax and manchester the long way round!


In addition we have Batley! a small IFS panel box connecting leeds (York IECC) & Healey Mills PSB

would be a good sim that would link East and West and would finally give us Birmingham right through to Newcastle! (if bristol & Glocester Exes are updated we get Plymouth to Newcastle!)

hope you enjoy!
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 18:19 #138498
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6380 posts 		In case you haven't seen it, our Style Guide is public.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 18:27 #138499
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3701 posts 		elltrain3 in post 138497 said:
Next Up, a sim i'd very much like to SimSig and could result in some big (HUGE!) chains!
Its the small though VERY busy Healey Mills! covering the line from Wakefield (west yks) through the now disused (mostly) Yard and then onto the thornhill panel where we have the intensive 5 TPE an hour plus all local Northern services thrown in, and through Mirfield and into Huddersfield! then we have the small and simple line towards Halifax and manchester the long way round!


In addition we have Batley! a small IFS panel box connecting leeds (York IECC) & Healey Mills PSB

would be a good sim that would link East and West and would finally give us Birmingham right through to Newcastle! (if bristol & Glocester Exes are updated we get Plymouth to Newcastle!)

hope you enjoy!

Batley (lady anne) LC is a UWC, not worked barriers/gates even though its right next to the box.

Theres a typo at Norbury goods yard which should be Horbury.

The up dep sdg GF is storrs hill ground frame.

Otherwise very impressive.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 18:34 #138500
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1111 posts 		GeoffM in post 138498 said:
In case you haven't seen it, our Style Guide is public.
I can just hear Geoff now - Compress Compress Compress !!!
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 19:12 #138501
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373 posts 		is it? i found shots of the panel, and it said that "E" Switch releases it and then it has 2 controls for thee wickets so assumed it was locally controlled?

ah yep, all get those added
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 19:14 #138502
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373 posts 		Meld in post 138500 said:
GeoffM in post 138498 said:
In case you haven't seen it, our Style Guide is public.
I can just hear Geoff now - Compress Compress Compress !!!
ah I've never found that before! that could prove useful! haha it did occur to me that I have waaaaaaay too much black space
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 19:29 #138503
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4869 posts 		jc92 in post 138499 said:

Batley (lady anne) LC is a UWC, not worked barriers/gates even though its right next to the box.

Theres a typo at Norbury goods yard which should be Horbury.

The up dep sdg GF is storrs hill ground frame.

Otherwise very impressive.
Lady Anne crossing isn't a UWC, it's an MCG crossing with wicket gates, there's a key release instrument in Batley box which maintains B2 and B11 at danger when the key is released. Wicket gates are kept normally locked.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 19:34 #138504
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3997 posts 		jc92 said:
Batley (lady anne) LC is a UWC, not worked barriers/gates even though its right next to the box.
elltrain3 in post 138501 said:
is it? i found shots of the panel, and it said that "E" Switch releases it and then it has 2 controls for thee wickets so assumed it was locally controlled?

ah yep, all get those added
It's listed as MCG in the Sectional Appendix, and, in 2009 at least, the gates (I assume the vehicle ones) had a gate lock worked from the box- see the rodding in this photo: https://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p638949268/h5399AEE2#h5399aee2
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 09/04/2021 at 20:14 #138505
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1287 posts 		Steamer in post 138504 said:
It's listed as MCG in the Sectional Appendix, and, in 2009 at least, the gates (I assume the vehicle ones) had a gate lock worked from the box- see the rodding in this photo: https://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p638949268/h5399AEE2#h5399aee2

Correct. That was certainly the case when I did a brief bit of trainspotting there once. All gates locked from the box.

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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 13/04/2021 at 21:14 #138572
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1287 posts 		Another contribution from me. This time my attempt at the Main Line panel of Basingstoke ASC which includes Basingstoke station. This would have 4 neighbouring sims: Salisbury (already released), Eastleigh, Woking and Reading.

As ever, thoughts welcome.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 13/04/2021 at 22:35 #138576
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373 posts 		That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 13/04/2021 at 23:06 #138578
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1287 posts 		elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!

Thanks Ell. I thought to try and do Doncaster as well but I would hope that would be in development. It is one of the barriers - probably the main one - to a full-on Kings Cross to Scotland chain which would be superb fun and deffo worth a 24hr chain.

Dave
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 08:50 #138580
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1123 posts 		elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
I like to see Woking and Eastleigh mockups

Do agree it be plenty of stuff to do with the XC, SWR, GWR services plus the freight too on the mockup of Basingstoke.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 10:34 #138584
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373 posts 		yeah dave i agree it'd be a vital and useful link, and provide PLENTY of different scenarios and TTs

and yeah Eastleigh would be another good one, plenty of shunting
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 18:10 #138594
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Online 		elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
A Doncaster mock up has been done already...
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 18:39 #138597
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1795 posts 		andyallen4014 in post 138594 said:
elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
A Doncaster mock up has been done already...
Is it in this thread? I don't remember seeing it.
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 19:20 #138604
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Online 		bugsy in post 138597 said:
andyallen4014 in post 138594 said:
elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
A Doncaster mock up has been done already...
Is it in this thread? I don't remember seeing it.
No it isn't. But it's very complex and I hope it happens for real!
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 14/04/2021 at 19:43 #138606
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373 posts 		andyallen4014 in post 138594 said:
elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
A Doncaster mock up has been done already...
Has it? oooh any idea where one would find this mock-up? would save me making one xD
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 16/04/2021 at 13:02 #138689
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1795 posts 		elltrain3 in post 138606 said:
andyallen4014 in post 138594 said:
elltrain3 in post 138576 said:
That looks ace dave! I've attempted to start a mock of Doncaster, but the sheer size is very offputting xD yours is very long and a decent size with a staedy amount of traffic I would think!
A Doncaster mock up has been done already...
Has it? oooh any idea where one would find this mock-up? would save me making one xD
I'd very much like to know where to find it as well.
This sim, if ever produced, would be the icing on the cake for me. I'd buy it instantly with not a minute of hesitation
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A little Mock-SimSig Fun! 16/04/2021 at 13:41 #138690
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1287 posts 		bugsy in post 138689 said:
I'd very much like to know where to find it as well. This sim, if ever produced, would be the icing on the cake for me. I'd buy it instantly with not a minute of hesitation :)

So would I. It isn't the only one I would buy with not a minute of hesitation. If Doncaster PSB came out though it would provide a chain with multiple other sims at the same time (West Yorkshire, York, Peterborough, Sheffield thinking off the top of my head) which would only leave the line through Morpeth, Alnmouth and Berwick before it would be possible to do a SimSig chain from London Kings Cross to Scotland. Would be huge fun.

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