Upper Fern Tree Gully to Belgrave - Melbourne, Victoria

This mode does exist, 'Panel Signals' in the F3 options menu, supported on all sims. This reflects what signallers see versus what the signals are doing in the field. I believe only IECC-type workstations actually display the signal aspect to the signaller. I always have Panel Signals set to 'on', so I only see green or red.

The Victorian 'clear normal -> reduce -> medium -> stop' four-aspect sequence is not the same as the British 'clear - advance caution - caution - stop' sequence. The absolute requirement to travel at 40kph through the block on a medium aspect in ABS territory, or 40kph until clear of the points on a clear medium in ATC, does not apply to the UK scheme (to name a couple of examples - there are more). This means that if the Victorian aspect sequence isn't programmed, trains will not behave correctly. They'll move too quickly through sections (among other things), and the experience of signalling the Upper Gully area will be poorly represented as a result.

flabberdacks in post 142161 said:

The Victorian 'clear normal -> reduce -> medium -> stop' four-aspect sequence is not the same as the British 'clear - advance caution - caution - stop' sequence. The absolute requirement to travel at 40kph through the block on a medium aspect in ABS territory, or 40kph until clear of the points on a clear medium in ATC, does not apply to the UK scheme (to name a couple of examples - there are more). This means that if the Victorian aspect sequence isn't programmed, trains will not behave correctly. They'll move too quickly through sections (among other things), and the experience of signalling the Upper Gully area will be poorly represented as a result.

Thanks for that. I was hoping the relatively short block sections for the Upper Gully panel would address the simulation aspect, i.e. depart Ferntree Gully 2 on clear medium, would the simulated train achieve >40 km/h before clearing the points anyway? Also, does Simsig have a function for introducing curve speed limits in the middle of a random block section, perhaps based on the TSR designs? i.e. you could hardcode all medium aspect signals to introduce a TSR at 25mph for the relevant length.

I'm also assuming that altering the bitmap to show speed signalling aspects instead of 3/4-aspect signals is a separate issue to the underlying coding and train operations?

Thanks flabberdacks.

This could evolve into a larger sim at a later date, but I figured it'd be a good one to experiment with. It doesn't really need speed signalling, either, because the track layout is quite simple. Ignoring shunting signals for a bit, every signal is either Normal only, Medium only, or Medium-plus-Normal-Warning, which effectively devolves to four-aspect. The only possible exception is 36, which can show normal aspects only to the down platform and medium to either platform, but this is approach-cleared anyway and a post-1995 modification. For every other signal, standard 3- or 4-aspect signals combined with curve speed limits give enough detail.