Low Ellers Curve slots

You must have granted the slot request from panel 2 for the 4R to enter?

Si

South Yorkshire Joint Line

The opposing slots on the South Yorkshire Joint Line can both be set at the same time, and will remain set after the passage of trains.

From Station Manual.

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South Yorkshire Joint Line

The opposing slots on the South Yorkshire Joint Line can both be set at the same time, and will remain set after the passage of trains.

Thanks, but I’m aware of this information.

It would appear that I have slightly messed things up 🙄

I think that what happened was that a slot was requested by Panel 2, but never granted, probably because I was concentrating on a different part of the sim.
Subsequently, Panel 5 (me) requested a slot which was granted by Panel 2.
It seems odd that having granted my slot and with a train heading towards signal D216, that Panel 2 allowed 4R18 to advance to signal D215 and prevent 6D61 from exiting the single line.

Oh well. Back to an earlier save and perhaps grant that slot from Panel 2 this time.

bugsy in post 155585 said:

Thanks, but I’m aware of this information.

It would appear that I have slightly messed things up 🙄

I think that what happened was that a slot was requested by Panel 2, but never granted, probably because I was concentrating on a different part of the sim.
Subsequently, Panel 5 (me) requested a slot which was granted by Panel 2.
It seems odd that having granted my slot and with a train heading towards signal D216, that Panel 2 allowed 4R18 to advance to signal D215 and prevent 6D61 from exiting the single line.

Oh well. Back to an earlier save and perhaps grant that slot from Panel 2 this time.

Unless you grant the slot Panel 2 cannot send a train forward to you. That is hard-coded into the sim and outwith anything you do. So you must have either neglected to manually cancel the slot after the passage of the previous train or granted the slot again for the current train. There are no other options. You might like to check the save to which you are returning and let us know whether the slot is still granted from the previous train so we are not all left hanging on tenterhooks!

I was reading things back to front when I was talking about the Doncaster Station sim rather than Doncaster North so apologies for that. You haven't posted a copy of the 12:00:00 save so we can't look at that but the 12:10:00 save you put up in your first post has both slot roundels filled white. If you can put up the 12:00:00 save we can see what is causing the roundel for the slot request from panel 2 (D215) to fill before 12:10:00.

If you re-read my original post, I had requested a slot and it was granted and ! set the route for 6D61 onto the single line. It was after this that a slot was requested by Doncaster Station, even though the single line was occupied by then and so I obviously couldn't grant the slot to them.

This is all very odd isn't it??

bugsy in post 155599 said:

If you re-read my original post, I had requested a slot and it was granted and ! set the route for 6D61 onto the single line. It was after this that a slot was requested by Doncaster Station, even though the single line was occupied by then and so I obviously couldn't grant the slot to them.

This is all very odd isn't it??

The level of difficulty you are using means that the train from D215 has a random setting for delay or advance of entry from the scheduled time so it will be impossible to replicate what happened in your original run. However, there is nothing in the slotting arrangements to stop you granting the slot from D215 even if you have already had Doncaster Station grant you the slot to enter the single track in the opposite direction.

All very odd.