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| Bristol 1985 v3.21 02/03/2010 at 20:02 #798 | |
mrtux
19 posts |
This is certainly a fantastic timetable and during the peak hour I found it VERY hectic at BTM, and only found a few faults. Firstly, a couple of trains are scheduled to exit at Barrow Road RTS, yet refused to move off the main line without intervention. Secondly, 6V041 seems to be too long for Bath RTS, and didn't clear the points to allow me to use the DGL at Bath Spa to stow early-running freight trains when a faster service was up it's tail-pipe. Most annoyingly was a single problem with the Platform 9 and 10 with one pair of trains. 1C70 arrives platform 10, the loco runs-around as 0S23, and forms 1S23 (timetabled to start from platform 11). 1V96 arrives platform 9 and forms 5V96. 1C70/1S23 is 228m long, 1V96/5V96 is 176m, and even after telling both trains to reverse and move to the down end, 1V96/5V96 doesn't quite squeeze in behind signal 47. With time running out for me to clear a path of an UP service to depart platform 7 and not wanting to tweak the lengths of the trains, I had to tell 5V96 to abandon it's timetable then send it to behind signal 24, then reverse and return to platform 9 via signal 572. This still didn't get 5V96 in behind signal 47 and did block access to/from platform 11/12 at the east end, but didn't affect any train running (I did also have a train in platform 11 at the time, but it wasn't scheduled to depart until after 5V96 had. And as commented in another thread, 6V812 splits at Bristol Parkway DGL with the front portion (8V812) going in to Stoke Gifford, then leaving without getting a loco attached back on to it. Log in to reply |
| Bristol 1985 v3.21 02/03/2010 at 20:02 #7060 | |
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mrtux
19 posts |
This is certainly a fantastic timetable and during the peak hour I found it VERY hectic at BTM, and only found a few faults. Firstly, a couple of trains are scheduled to exit at Barrow Road RTS, yet refused to move off the main line without intervention. Secondly, 6V041 seems to be too long for Bath RTS, and didn't clear the points to allow me to use the DGL at Bath Spa to stow early-running freight trains when a faster service was up it's tail-pipe. Most annoyingly was a single problem with the Platform 9 and 10 with one pair of trains. 1C70 arrives platform 10, the loco runs-around as 0S23, and forms 1S23 (timetabled to start from platform 11). 1V96 arrives platform 9 and forms 5V96. 1C70/1S23 is 228m long, 1V96/5V96 is 176m, and even after telling both trains to reverse and move to the down end, 1V96/5V96 doesn't quite squeeze in behind signal 47. With time running out for me to clear a path of an UP service to depart platform 7 and not wanting to tweak the lengths of the trains, I had to tell 5V96 to abandon it's timetable then send it to behind signal 24, then reverse and return to platform 9 via signal 572. This still didn't get 5V96 in behind signal 47 and did block access to/from platform 11/12 at the east end, but didn't affect any train running (I did also have a train in platform 11 at the time, but it wasn't scheduled to depart until after 5V96 had. And as commented in another thread, 6V812 splits at Bristol Parkway DGL with the front portion (8V812) going in to Stoke Gifford, then leaving without getting a loco attached back on to it. Log in to reply |