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Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 27/08/2011 at 22:13 #20234
Josie
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During a TCF at Didcot North Jn, I sent 6V68 (who was wanting Didcot TC) from the Up Oxford to the Up Avoiding Line*. It drew up to signal 922 or thereabouts and stopped, and is now showing in the Train List as "Terminated, no more timetable trips." Current/Prev location is "Didcot TC."

Seeing as it hasn't really made it anywhere near Didcot TC I'm assuming this isn't supposed to happen?

*Don't ask what I was going to do next, I was tired and I don't think I'd got that far!

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 05:34 #20239
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During a TCF at Didcot North Jn, I sent 6V68 (who was wanting Didcot TC) from the Up Oxford to the Up Avoiding Line*. It drew up to signal 922 or thereabouts and stopped, and is now showing in the Train List as "Terminated, no more timetable trips." Current/Prev location is "Didcot TC."

Seeing as it hasn't really made it anywhere near Didcot TC I'm assuming this isn't supposed to happen?

*Don't ask what I was going to do next, I was tired and I don't think I'd got that far!
For the purpose of allowing diversions and timetable stepping the original author applied a belt and braces approach to location coding, it appears this extended to coding the TC onto the various through lines. Hence what happened to you. Suggest you simply de-allocate the train from the timetable and through judicious use of f2 reversing you get it into a TC location, or maybe amend the timetable.

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 08:35 #20252
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" said:
For the purpose of allowing diversions and timetable stepping the original author applied a belt and braces approach to location coding, it appears this extended to coding the TC onto the various through lines. Hence what happened to you.
I can understand the reason behind making Didcot Parkway platforms and the Avoiding Lines interchangeable, so you can divert things through without stepping the timetable, but surely putting the TC in other places will only result in this sort of thing? i.e. there isn't anything that goes 'through' the TC that could be diverted, because it's an exit location.

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Suggest you simply de-allocate the train from the timetable and through judicious use of f2 reversing you get it into a TC location, or maybe amend the timetable.
Yes, shortly after signalling it to the AL in the first place, I realised that the TCF would have allowed me to PSAD and send it in through TC entrance #1, so reversed it to 6923 and did that instead.

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 09:01 #20253
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For the purpose of allowing diversions and timetable stepping the original author applied a belt and braces approach to location coding, it appears this extended to coding the TC onto the various through lines. Hence what happened to you.
Ah now you mention, I remember now, it in the original Sim is was possible to send a through train via the TC, can't recall why that was removed, probably did not work properly- removal was before my time working on this but the code was still in there, just not active, hence my recollection of wondering what it did.

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 09:09 #20254
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Swindon A&B has already been re-released, and now it needs re-releasing again... The core code bugs are fixed, but there has appeared a bug in the sim.
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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 09:11 #20255
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Ah now you mention, I remember now, it in the original Sim is was possible to send a through train via the TC, can't recall why that was removed, probably did not work properly- removal was before my time working on this but the code was still in there, just not active, hence my recollection of wondering what it did.

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Oh, I see! To be quite honest I'd just assumed it wasn't possible to put a through train there, so the fact that it is (or rather was) makes sense.

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 10:04 #20257
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Swindon A&B has already been re-released, and now it needs re-releasing again... The core code bugs are fixed, but there has appeared a bug in the sim.
Would you care to explain further. There will always be little niggles here and there no matter what we do but I've not seen anything that warrants an immediate re-release of any of the 3 GW sims.

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Re: Didcot TC & Avoiding Lines 28/08/2011 at 17:58 #20277
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Ah now you mention, I remember now, it in the original Sim is was possible to send a through train via the TC, can't recall why that was removed, probably did not work properly- removal was before my time working on this but the code was still in there, just not active, hence my recollection of wondering what it did.
Apparently it's allowed but it takes so much time to set up that it's never done except in an emergency or planned in advance.

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