ARS colours totally confusing

With ARS in “ARS State” mode the TDs will be shown as either cyan (blue) or magenta (pink). Cyan means the ARS (if on) will route the train but magenta means it will NOT. Note that this may seem opposite to what you might expect, but is nevertheless authentic. A berth with a magenta background means the train is being MANUALLY routed by YOU, NOT by ARS, even though the ARS line labels and buttons are also magenta!

Is it really that hard to learn two colours?

There is science behind the use of these colours. The airline industry has the same colours on the Primary Flight Display and the Navigation Display in aircraft for a very good reason.

Missed out in the Australian honours? And I'd wish you would change your picture. It's of the RMC in Sydney and they don't control any signalling or trains.

ARS 1983 Style. No worries about colour here and still in use today.

And before Galileo, most people believed the Earth is flat and the sun rotates around it.

This applies to Swindid A&B, summer TT 2014, but I guess could apply to any ARS-enabled sim.

It seems magenta is the colour used when trains are ARS. When ARS is enabled for the whole sim or just a particular class, the area labels (e.g., LUPOXFD) are naturally in magenta and the ARS messages are also in magenta, which makes sense. However, the headcode of an ARS-enabled train is cyan, whereas if I disable its ARS it changes to magenta. This is completely counterintuitive (read stupid) - it should be magenta if the train is ARS-enabled and possibly cyan if ARS is enabled for that class but not for that train.

I assume it's like this because it's the way it's done on an IECC screen, but why does it have to be this way? No wonder I'm finding it hard to learn ARS. Has this confused anyone else?

(Added) - I think I've found my answer here on the ARS Display Options page of the Wiki

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With ARS in “ARS State” mode the TDs will be shown as either cyan (blue) or magenta (pink). Cyan means the ARS (if on) will route the train but magenta means it will NOT. Note that this may seem opposite to what you might expect, but is nevertheless authentic. A berth with a magenta background means the train is being MANUALLY routed by YOU, NOT by ARS, even though the ARS line labels and buttons are also magenta!

Stuff authentic - long live common sense.

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And before Galileo, most people believed the Earth is flat and the sun rotates around it.

Cite?

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round and had a pretty good idea of its size.

Columbus wasn't trying to prove the earth was round. He had got it stuck in his head that it was smaller than it actually is. His figure put the distance from Spain to Japan at about 2000 miles, which is why he tried his voyage.

It seems magenta is the colour used when trains are ARS. When ARS is enabled for the whole sim or just a particular class, the area labels (e.g., LUPOXFD) are naturally in magenta and the ARS messages are also in magenta, which makes sense. However, the headcode of an ARS-enabled train is cyan, whereas if I disable its ARS it changes to magenta. This is completely counterintuitive (read stupid) - it should be magenta if the train is ARS-enabled and possibly cyan if ARS is enabled for that class but not for that train.

(Added) - I think I've found my answer here on the ARS Display Options page of the Wiki

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With ARS in “ARS State” mode the TDs will be shown as either cyan (blue) or magenta (pink). Cyan means the ARS (if on) will route the train but magenta means it will NOT. Note that this may seem opposite to what you might expect, but is nevertheless authentic. A berth with a magenta background means the train is being MANUALLY routed by YOU, NOT by ARS, even though the ARS line labels and buttons are also magenta!

Try changing the ARS state to show delays if the F3 menu.

Can't remember the exact place for this as I'm on my iPad at the moment. Think it's in a drop down menu on the ARS tab. This shows on time trains in green, moving through yellow and then red as delays get longer.

this photo[/url] looks mighty like a type of signaller to me.

- is this a real feature of ARS?

You're quoting yourself there

The standard colour for train descriptions is Magenta.

Oh, so that's what a signaller looks like! I'll have to tell Becky at London Bridge ASC that she has to lose the leathers, piercings, tattoos etc and don a grey pullover so that she looks like the signaller she is qualified to be! Best do that from a distance! A long distance!

There is no real world feature to enable you to see the delay minutes on the signallers display. There are however ancillary system that tap into the train describer to show the train delays by changing the head code colours but these are primarily to allow ops personnel to quickly determine how the trains are running and which ones are late. The signaller will have access to that display on a separate PC but it's not safety critical, it's just a bit of additional information.

I'll have to tell Becky at London Bridge ASC that she has to loose the leathers, piercings, tattoos etc and done a grey pullover so that she looks like the signaller she is qualified to be!

Best do that from a distance! A long distance!