Westbury V2.227

The shunt R479 at Newbury doesn't clear to the Up London, only clears bang road to Reading (haven't check the platforms). I seem to remember it clearing to the up, am I being impatient?

Also the Up Throwbridge line gives an ACOA as the train reaches the station, I can't say what caused that as I wasn't looking at the panel I was alt+tabbed somewhere else the drivers angry phone call alerted me to the situation.

I've just run from a save before the ACOA, 2O51 on the 1985 TT runs down the throwbridge and gets alarmed at UT6R, UT6 also replaces to danger. It happens when the local reaches Throwbridge, seems to be tied to the train advancing from THR the sim seems to think that the stop signal is swapped around with the repeater. Total stab in the dark but it's the only explanation that UT6 would replace before the train passes.

Additional testing reveals the signal behaves normally on a test TT.

Just submitted a save of the problem under saved simulations "Train approaches inevitable ACOA".

Peter In the multiplaw session the other night we found that the circuit for Dn Trowbridge siding wasnt clearing and had to play around in F2 to get a train to reverse - I'm sure Alan will pop along with the actions needed - It was mentioned that the TC may have reverted back to a shorter length,

Also the Up Throwbridge line gives an ACOA as the train reaches the station, I can't say what caused that as I wasn't looking at the panel I was alt+tabbed somewhere else the drivers angry phone call alerted me to the situation.

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Also the Up Throwbridge line gives an ACOA as the train reaches the station, I can't say what caused that as I wasn't looking at the panel I was alt+tabbed somewhere else the drivers angry phone call alerted me to the situation.

Track circuit TTDN (on the down Trowbridge line, just before the Waldens LC) trips signal SUT6 (on the up Trowbridge line), which causes any Westbury-bound train stopped at Trowbridge to report the ACOA.

Peter:

I'm getting calls from passenger trains at Trowbridge (UT6) wanting permission to enter Goods Line (it's actually UP Trowbridge). It started at 16:28 with train 1O60. Previous to this I'd had some TCFs in the Westbury station area but at the other end (leading to the Salisbury lines). After 1O60 all passenger trains are calling up requesting permission onto "goods" line. No trains previous to 1O60 called up for this reason.

Maybe this has some bearing on the previous discussions on UT6 resetting (hasn't happened to me yet).

Regards,

Nicholas

P.D. Attached is a save file with 1O92 wanting said permission.

<Edit> I cancelled UT6 to see if it had any bearing on the problem so after answering the ACOA message you should get the request for goods line working </edit>

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Simon reports that apparently Greenmill LC keeps flashing failed at every train that is heading towards Bathampton but not the other way, does anyone else get this?

Might happen if you have a really slow train that keeps that barriers down for a while, that's the only thing that will triggers a failure as far as I know.

Peter

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2. There are various "MP..." codes around (ie. MP111, MP120, etc). Out of interest, what are these for?
Cheers.
Dave

They were put in by the original developer (Mike or Geoff) probably for interest.
Peter

I believe it is a Group standard/requirement in certain circumstances, so may reflect the real panel.

There are also some discontinuities in the route miles, particularly around Castle Cary.

Currently playing Westbury and it appears I've found a bug.

Time is 07:20 and I've got 1A82 on the Up Athelney approaching Signal S47 and only occupying that Track Circuit (which is either TCUJ or TCUJKL - when clicking on it, it comes up as TCUJ but that doesn't show as occupied via F11, but TCUJKL does?!!). I may have cancelled the signal in-front of the driver yet despite getting 120-seconds approach locking I didn't get an ACOA penalty?

Regarding the Greenland Mill LC failing - I had that earlier at 06:11. If it helps, I had Signal 121 set and on auto and I had a train on the Down Trowbridge at the time, which was located beyond the crossing.(solely occupying Track Circuit TTDC1).

Addition: 07:22 - just had it happen again. Everything is exactly as described above. Train is 1V02 and I've got 2V10 just beyond Hawkeridge Junction.

Unfortunately I do not have a good picture of the Greenland Mill buttons, there appear to be 2 black push buttons above the track, these could be stop-trough buttons. In the old manual (the manual that came with the first release of the sim) there was a warning that you should not set routes from Bradford on Avon for stopping trains until departure time. The Timings are measured for fast trains.

Peter, do you have the panel pictures? If Geoff is ok with it I can send you them if you haven't got them.

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Currently playing Westbury and it appears I've found a bug.

Time is 07:20 and I've got 1A82 on the Up Athelney approaching Signal S47 and only occupying that Track Circuit (which is either TCUJ or TCUJKL - when clicking on it, it comes up as TCUJ but that doesn't show as occupied via F11, but TCUJKL does?!!). I may have cancelled the signal in-front of the driver yet despite getting 120-seconds approach locking I didn't get an ACOA penalty?

I suspect that at the time you restored S47 the train was far enough away from S47R not to see the aspect change (it's about a 9 mile section).

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Currently playing Westbury and it appears I've found a bug.

Time is 07:20 and I've got 1A82 on the Up Athelney approaching Signal S47 and only occupying that Track Circuit (which is either TCUJ or TCUJKL - when clicking on it, it comes up as TCUJ but that doesn't show as occupied via F11, but TCUJKL does?!!). I may have cancelled the signal in-front of the driver yet despite getting 120-seconds approach locking I didn't get an ACOA penalty?

I suspect that at the time you restored S47 the train was far enough away from S47R not to see the aspect change (it's about a 9 mile section).

Interesting. When I looked on Google maps, although I could not identify the actual signal location, I did note the line approaching the station is quite straight.