Westbury Summer 2011 release

This is 1 timetable of a few. Neighbouring sims of Exeter and Swindon are done, just Bristol is being tested, however it is unchainable with that sim at the moment anyway, but you can do a 3 way chain with the Swindid and Exeter TT's.

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This is 1 timetable of a few. Neighbouring sims of Exeter and Swindon are done, just Bristol is being tested, however it is unchainable with that sim at the moment anyway, but you can do a 3 way chain with the Swindid and Exeter TT's.

westbury can be chained to bristol, it creates an inconsistency warning, but it does work. unless im missing something ive seen it done recently

It's a Summer Saturday, and there are planned engineering works in the Uffington area today. So, all HST's are diverted via the Berks and Hants, with a reduced and altered service on some Bristol TM trains. Through Devon/Cornwall services usually booked via Bristol will run under 1Zxx as for today they will be diverted and re-timed to run via Castle Cary instead. Swansea services are diverted via Newbury and Melksham to Bristol Parkway via a reversal at Swindon.

Melksham local trains are running as normal with diversions worked around them, however any delays will knock it back!

However, there are unplanned diversions on too as there is a landslide between Highbridge & Burnham and Bridgwater that happened last night and unfortunately it will not be resolved today either, so most trains booked to run up to Bristol will be diverted via Westbury with no altered times. This means you'll have delayed CrossCountry trains entering at Bathampton Junction.

It's also Mazey Day too, and two railtours were originally booked to run direct from Bristol, but are diverted via Westbury and will thus be running late. It's up to you to slot them between services and not delay other passenger services at the same time...might be more fun with the delay sliders up some more!

all HST's are diverted via the Berks and Hants, with a reduced and altered service on some Bristol TM trains

It would have been a nice TT had I been able to play it without any TC failures.

I gave this a try after playing a couple of the standard Westbury TTs without diversions. This was my first attempt at a TT with diversions built in.

[<snip> This, I thought, was strictly a case of preaching to the already converted.

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all HST's are diverted via the Berks and Hants, with a reduced and altered service on some Bristol TM trains

What the heck???

I recall TC failures at Bedwyn, Newbury, and Clink Rd Jn. As crossovers between up and down lines are few and far between, I felt rather helpless when caught out. I tried reversing some trains onto the line signalled in the opposite direction, but they all crawled so slowly (15 mph) to get past the TC failure that in the end I decided to let them bank up until the fault was (hopefully) fixed in a few hours, rather than make them divert, one at a time, around the blockage in the face of all traffic heading the opposite way, which was steadily building up.

Once the TC failure was repaired, I told myself, I could get it all flowing again smoothly and get rid of the backlog. But new trains have a habit of, well, arriving, and as the old saying puts it, the hurrieder I went, the behinder I got. Not exactly my idea of fun.

Berks & Hants is, I'm afraid, one of those colloquial railwaymens' names for a line. In this case it means the line from Reading towards Westbury, in paractical terms. But I suspect trains running this way only use a few yards of the actual Berks & Hants - I have a suspicion that, in reality, it refers to the line from Reading to Basingstoke, from which the Westbury line diverges at Southcote Junction (and goes nowhere near Hampshire)! Small wonder you're confused.

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I tried reversing some trains onto the line signalled in the opposite direction, but they all crawled so slowly (15 mph) to get past the TC failure that in the end I decided to let them bank up until the fault was (hopefully) fixed in a few hours, rather than make them divert, one at a time, around the blockage in the face of all traffic heading the opposite way, which was steadily building up.

To send traffic 'wrong road' would require Single Line Working.

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I tried reversing some trains onto the line signalled in the opposite direction, but they all crawled so slowly (15 mph) to get past the TC failure that in the end I decided to let them bank up until the fault was (hopefully) fixed in a few hours, rather than make them divert, one at a time, around the blockage in the face of all traffic heading the opposite way, which was steadily building up.

To send traffic 'wrong road' would require Single Line Working.

I'm not familiar with the sim, but I assumed he meant there was bidi signalling in the area. If that's not the case then, yes, you need a pilotman.

There is some code in the core code for pilotmen, but the only sim that uses it is Cambridge and adding it to a loader sim will require me to do some significant changes in the core code.

Barley is Maidstone East...

Then start again, click F3, then "Failures", and move the slider for track circuit failures as far to the left as it will go. Sorted.

Authorise train to pass signal at danger
Tell driver to examine the line
Tell driver to examine the line and pass signal at danger

On the other hand, the part about examining the line but not authorizing to pass at danger, I don’t know for sure, but could you use that if someone has phoned in from a crossing and not reported clear yet?