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Strange Reporting numbers. 29/01/2013 at 21:25 #40968
ozrail
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Looking at the Open Train Times website on the North London Line noticed some very strange Reporting Numbers. Running along with other normal services sre, 460F, 648K and 655K and so on. They don't show-up in the timetables.
Any ideas?

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Strange Reporting numbers. 29/01/2013 at 21:30 #40969
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I think but I'm not 100% sure, they are freight paths.
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Strange Reporting numbers. 29/01/2013 at 22:14 #40974
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They are indeed freight trains, though there's a requirement to 'obfuscate' headcodes (along with a couple of other things), so you get the right class (4/6/7/8/9) and then an automatically incremented suffix, 00A to 99Z.

I've filed a bug with Peter about not being able to search the headcodes (it only accepts NANN and these are NNNA)

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Strange Reporting numbers. 29/01/2013 at 22:16 #40975
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They are freight trains. According to the Open Train Times blog, freight schedules have been made available again, provided that the headcodes are hidden for 'reasons of confidentiality'. Therefore, the signalling maps show a placeholder TD, and on a location search freight's show as ****, operator ZZ.

EDIT: Sacro posted while I was typing the above

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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 19:54 #41816
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" said:
Looking at the Open Train Times website on the North London Line noticed some very strange Reporting Numbers. Running along with other normal services sre, 460F, 648K and 655K and so on. They don't show-up in the timetables.
Any ideas?
this one came up 5 mits ago 160k

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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 20:46 #41819
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i think they might be freight trains as they are not allowed to show the right number.
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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 21:14 #41822
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freights running class 1 are probably the post/parcel trains,
Last edited: 26/02/2013 at 14:47 by Tempest Malice
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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 21:43 #41824
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it wll assgin randon number with a litter at the end as far i know it was not a post train. i my be wrong
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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 21:58 #41827
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I was under the impression the first number was the one the actual train was using, and it was only the last 3 characters that are proceduraly generated.
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Strange Reporting numbers. 25/02/2013 at 22:03 #41828
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I'm not sure where you are seeing these numbers as Open Train Times shows all freight trains with the headcode as FRGT.

Looking through the last hours worth of D steps for the LNW region, it does appear that the first digit is the trains class.

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Last edited: 25/02/2013 at 22:07 by headshot119
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Strange Reporting numbers. 26/02/2013 at 14:49 #41844
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" said:
I'm not sure where you are seeing these numbers as Open Train Times shows all freight trains with the headcode as FRGT.

Looking through the last hours worth of D steps for the LNW region, it does appear that the first digit is the trains class.
The numbers are in the maps mode in open train times which shows the headcodes of trains moving about the system http://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/U3/1 for example.

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