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| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? 26/10/2024 at 11:38 #158963 | |
Ignacio
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Dear all, is there a program/tool available showing the movements of the train at the different station versus time, something like in the attached? Or is such a tool unusual in the UK (real) train world? Thanks, Ignacio  Post has attachments. Log in to view them. Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 10:38 #158987 | |
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sunocske
119 posts |
Sorry for being off-topic, but I have to say I love those timetable diagrams. I am in a model railway club in Hungary, and we are organize or participate events similar to the FREMO module meetings but with TT gauge. We use timetable lists for the station dispatchers, but a diagram like this can be quite handy to see what is (or should) going on around your post. The other point is that it is independent of your language. We go quite often abroad eg. to Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Germany and so on, and sometimes we have some language difficulties (however, English or German is becoming quite common now) when using the timetable list. But once you get familiar with those diagrams, you just need to note the train classes and colours paired to them, and there you go! And if you have a ruler or anything straight stuff (pencil, edge of paper etc.), you can expect how a delayed train would affect other traffic. However, I prefer the 90° counter-clockwise tilted diagram style. Don't ask why, but maybe because this is what style I've first met on the Budapest Children's Railway when I was a young boy  Here is a tutorial video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYdjULYddGY
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| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 12:10 #158992 | |
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clive
2780 posts |
That's what I know as a "timetable graph". It's not normally used in UK practice as far as I know, though I think the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway used something similar. I've seen them used a lot in Australia. I would expect it would be possible to write an Excel spreadsheet that produces such a graph. Or a script of some kind that turns the timetable XML data into a SVG graph. But I don't have the time to write one myself. Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 13:27 #158993 | |
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sunocske
119 posts |
"I would expect it would be possible to write an Excel spreadsheet that produces such a graph." It is. I've seen a similar Excel spreadsheet at the Children's Railway, which turned WTT-like "input table" to a graph you can see on the video I've linked in my previous post. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: Peter Bennet |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 13:30 #158994 | |
Peter Bennet
5400 posts |
They had something like that at Glasgow Central box to regulate the station platforms. I believe it may still be used when control moved to Cowlairs. Peter. I identify as half man half biscuit - crumbs! Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 15:21 #158995 | |
DonRiver
164 posts |
It's possible to do practically anything with Excel graphs. At uni I made a spreadsheet which would plot a cross-section of an arbitrary NACA 4-series aerofoil, at an arbitrary angle of attack, and plot lines tangent at defined intervals along the chord of the upper and lower surfaces of length proportional to pressure measured at that point in a wind tunnel, and then join the ends with a curved line that shows the pressure profile. (The exercise was to show what happens when a wing stalls and how a slat can prevent stalling... I never got round to printing the diagrams and submitting the coursework, unfortunately.) However in the year 2024, some sort of Python tool that takes a .WTT and a set of timing points and produces an SVG might be better? (named for the one in Tasmania, not in Russia) Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 16:33 #158998 | |
GeoffM
6367 posts |
Peter Bennet in post 158994 said:They had something like that at Glasgow Central box to regulate the station platforms. I believe it may still be used when control moved to Cowlairs.The Docker. Brass rollers rolled a sheet under some perspex and they'd write on the perspex. We (at TRE) even quoted for an electronic replacement when they moved to SWSSC but nope, the brass rollers went into the new high tech signalling centre. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 19:19 #159005 | |
Hap
1026 posts |
Peter Bennet in post 158994 said:They had something like that at Glasgow Central box to regulate the station platforms. I believe it may still be used when control moved to Cowlairs.You'd be correct. :) Craig How to report an issue: www.SimSig.co.uk/Wiki/Show?page=usertrack:reportanissue Log in to reply |
| "picture timetable" option for SimSig? Today at 21:33 #159007 | |
drew
71 posts |
clive in post 158992 said:In New South Wales that would be referred to as a “train control graph”. Not sure if we’re weird in having a person called a train controller who regulates traffic over an area encompassing multiple signal boxes or panels, but traditionally they used a very large graph like that to do it. It would have been particularly useful for regulation on large areas of single line with multiple unattended interlockings where the train crew worked themselves through. The crew needed permission from train controller to depart each location. The train controller would plot it all on the graph as they went to plan crosses and avoid log jams. They’re also good for timetable creation. I used one to solve problems on the Illawarra mountain in the timetables I produced for SimSig Moss Vale. Log in to reply |