Request Pilotman / Handsignaller

The ability to request a handsignaller or pilotman would be a useful feature to have in SimSig.

Below is an example of what the dialogue box and menu would look like:


In this example the line beyond Yatton (towards Weston) is closed. Down trains would terminate at Yatton and after being handsignalled would proceed wrong line towards Nailsea and Backwell and then across the Flax Bourton crossover. Right clicking on a platform would bring up a menu to request a pilotman or handsignaller and the resulting dialogue box would ask for the direction requested (down, up or all trains).

Would like to hear opinions on this from other users and the SimSig team if possible. :)

Sounds like a good shout Steve.

Would be especially useful for sims such as Saltley, as Pilotman working on the Redditch branch could be simulated (SY8 being maintained at danger until the pilotman is on board.)

Also of note, would a suitable delay be required between requesting a Handsignaller and one actually turning up?

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Sounds like a good shout Steve.

Would be especially useful for sims such as Saltley, as Pilotman working on the Redditch branch could be simulated (SY8 being maintained at danger until the pilotman is on board.)

You just want an excuse to delay 2R43, although it has run late for the last two days without any help from any of us.

Steve, if this happened in real life, the trains would terminate at yatton, pull forward into the loop, and then reverse back at yatton over the emergency crossover that is provided there. In real life, those flax crossovers don't exist (just double checked on the baseline decleration and they don't exist) I would also be very surprised if in real life they did wrong line working for 7 miles, surely they would of called the coaches in

As for staffing if you need a pilotman and handsignaller then you could wait for hours. For example if I wanted to run SLW down ain the Hastings area then you are looking for over an hour just for one person, as for a second... well, lets just say the chances are the S&T would be there first. Of course by this time the train service is so far down the pan that SLW is not going to have any benifit as any TOC would have already put buses on between the two locations.

Steve, if this happened in real life, the trains would terminate at yatton, pull forward into the loop, and then reverse back at yatton over the emergency crossover that is provided there. In real life, those flax crossovers don't exist (just double checked on the baseline decleration and they don't exist) I would also be very surprised if in real life they did wrong line working for 7 miles, surely they would of called the coaches in

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Steve, if this happened in real life, the trains would terminate at yatton, pull forward into the loop, and then reverse back at yatton over the emergency crossover that is provided there. In real life, those flax crossovers don't exist (just double checked on the baseline decleration and they don't exist) I would also be very surprised if in real life they did wrong line working for 7 miles, surely they would of called the coaches in

I'm aware now that Flax crossover is no longer there, but in this situation I was just showing an example of how the feature would work using the first sim that came to mind. Also in this example the engineering work would be directly beyond Yatton platforms rendering the crossover and loop out of use (track replacement for example), and for whatever reason a service had to be provided to at least Yatton by rail. The Cobham SLW that occured last month was between Cobham and Claygate, total distance of 3 miles 52 chains wrong line working.