Issue with Leeds Ardsley

I've restarted Donny and reconnected it to the chain, and I noticed the Chaining ports were showing incorrectly for Ardsley and Doncaster North. [Pic uploaded]

I connected Leeds E/W, York North/South, West Yorkshire, Donny North, Leeds NW, Leeds Ardsley in that order.

Donny North -> York N/S
-> West Yorkshire
<- Leeds Ardsley (initially then switched -> on restart)

Guts in post 142630 said:

I connected Leeds E/W, York North/South, West Yorkshire, Donny North, Leeds NW, Leeds Ardsley in that order.

Donny North -> York N/S
-> West Yorkshire
<- Leeds Ardsley (initially then switched -> on restart)

Yep, that's your issue. Assuming you left 'Synchronise time' ticked on every occasion, then connecting Leeds Ardsley to Doncaster North after you connected Leeds A to Leeds E/W means that Leeds A was looking to Donny North for the time. Once Donny N went down, Leeds A lost its time reference.

One way to simplify it might be to set up a bare-bones set of chains to link all the simulations to Leeds E/W with synchronise time ticked, then make all the fill-in connections with it unticked.

So connect Leeds N/W-> Leeds E/W, York N/S-> Leeds E/W, Leeds A-> Leeds E/W, West Y-> Leeds E/W, Donny N-> Leeds A all with 'synchronise time' ticked, thus getting all sims running on the same time. Then, make all the other connections with 'synchronise time' unticked. This should also make it easier to avoid creating a loop of simulations all looking to each other for the time.

Steamer in post 142651 said:

Guts in post 142630 said:

I connected Leeds E/W, York North/South, West Yorkshire, Donny North, Leeds NW, Leeds Ardsley in that order.

Donny North -> York N/S
-> West Yorkshire
<- Leeds Ardsley (initially then switched -> on restart)

Yep, that's your issue. Assuming you left 'Synchronise time' ticked on every occasion, then connecting Leeds Ardsley to Doncaster North after you connected Leeds A to Leeds E/W means that Leeds A was looking to Donny North for the time. Once Donny N went down, Leeds A lost its time reference.

One way to simplify it might be to set up a bare-bones set of chains to link all the simulations to Leeds E/W with synchronise time ticked, then make all the fill-in connections with it unticked.

So connect Leeds N/W-> Leeds E/W, York N/S-> Leeds E/W, Leeds A-> Leeds E/W, West Y-> Leeds E/W, Donny N-> Leeds A all with 'synchronise time' ticked, thus getting all sims running on the same time. Then, make all the other connections with 'synchronise time' unticked. This should also make it easier to avoid creating a loop of simulations all looking to each other for the time.

I did this, as in Leeds Ardsley, to Leeds E/W with Donny N connected to Leeds Ardsley, and when the lost licence occurred again (yep forget to lock the licence) the same thing occurred. Everything paused but Leeds Ardsley kept going while still connected to Leeds E/W and West Yorkshire.

It might be an issue with the chaining data as T154B is called TSH154AB on Doncaster North for reasons that aren't obvious to me.

Did you route any trains across the fringe before 4R04? That signal 868 didn't clear suggests that either something went wrong when chaining (in which case it would have been red from the start) or a previous train got the TCs across the fringe in an unusual state. If there was a previous train, do you remember whether it came from the main line or from Heck GF?

Guts in post 142698 said:

Steamer in post 142651 said:

Guts in post 142630 said:

I connected Leeds E/W, York North/South, West Yorkshire, Donny North, Leeds NW, Leeds Ardsley in that order.

Donny North -> York N/S
-> West Yorkshire
<- Leeds Ardsley (initially then switched -> on restart)

Yep, that's your issue. Assuming you left 'Synchronise time' ticked on every occasion, then connecting Leeds Ardsley to Doncaster North after you connected Leeds A to Leeds E/W means that Leeds A was looking to Donny North for the time. Once Donny N went down, Leeds A lost its time reference.

One way to simplify it might be to set up a bare-bones set of chains to link all the simulations to Leeds E/W with synchronise time ticked, then make all the fill-in connections with it unticked.

So connect Leeds N/W-> Leeds E/W, York N/S-> Leeds E/W, Leeds A-> Leeds E/W, West Y-> Leeds E/W, Donny N-> Leeds A all with 'synchronise time' ticked, thus getting all sims running on the same time. Then, make all the other connections with 'synchronise time' unticked. This should also make it easier to avoid creating a loop of simulations all looking to each other for the time.

I did this, as in Leeds Ardsley, to Leeds E/W with Donny N connected to Leeds Ardsley, and when the lost licence occurred again (yep forget to lock the licence) the same thing occurred. Everything paused but Leeds Ardsley kept going while still connected to Leeds E/W and West Yorkshire.

That's odd- was 'sync time' definitely unticked for any other connections made from Leeds A?