Shift+L-click on TD to interpose

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Maybe Max could advise from his professional knowledge about best practice in terms of the amount of information the user is expected to handle.

I'm sure that if there were a way to assign smells to driver's calls made from certain locations I'd have a special one just for siding entries.

Travelling on the Scot Rail sleeper to Aberdeen the local paint manufacturer in Kirkcaldy always seemed to wake me and gave me a useful time association also. Usually around 4:50 a.m. as we were pulling into Kirkcaldy you would get the distinctive smell wafting through the air conditioning.
Geoff.

Not like the Shift Supervisor at Stratford Steam Shed who was known as "Lino" because every time he was asked how he was doing for traction responded that he was "on the floor".

I make the Train List window narrower so Power and Description are obscured (how often do you need them, really?) and lament the fact that I cannot toggle it off by pressing F2 again but need to use the mouse to minimize or close it.

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Not like the Shift Supervisor at Stratford Steam Shed who was known as "Lino" because every time he was asked how he was doing for traction responded that he was "on the floor".

Seriously though even you John must remember the distinctive smell around York on the Scarbrough line which emanated from the Rowntrees sidings, or if on the down main just outside York the acrid smell of sugar beet from the sugar factory, the smell of coal dust when passing Markham Colliery, the toxic smell of petroleum when passing Stanlow........not too sure about Windscale though and even a visual aid like an F key would be of little use for that.

I really do think we could be on the verge of revolutionising the whole aspect of Railway signalling simulations.

Geoff

For example, when a driver phones in, if we already knew exactly where his signal is located, we wouldn't have to look up the Train List for the last location, look up the signal map to identify the signal, etc. If all we had to do was click his message and be taken straight to his train on the panel, that would enable us to make an instant decision.

Personally, I never bother finding the signal number- simply search the area for the train description. No train list or signal number map required!

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Personally, I never bother finding the signal number- simply search the area for the train description. No train list or signal number map required!

Same. I don't understand the fascination with knowing where all signal numbers are unless something's gone very wrong and the TDs are all askew. In most cases I know more or less where everything is from continually scanning through the panel and setting routes while the sim is running. If it's busy or I've lost one, the train reporting code almost always gives a clue (e.g. on King's Cross, a 2V** train will invariably be somewhere on the Down Slow line heading towards Welwyn, on most sims 1A** trains will be on fast lines towards London, etc.)

If I still can't find it, the Train List gives a rough location, and then I can go and look for it.

And if there are ten calls coming in at once, you're not managing them properly. If you keep everything moving and set routes before trains come to a stand, they won't call in. If trains are unavoidable delayed by other trains/TCFs etc., answer the call and tell the driver to call again later.

I ... lament the fact that I cannot toggle it off by pressing F2 again but need to use the mouse to minimize or close it.

Press Escape. I admit you still have to move your finger an inch or so. Before you say it's not in the manual, well, it's a standard Windows feature for closing most types of dialog windows.

If you keep everything moving and set routes before trains come to a stand, they won't call in.

I set a route for Train A far enough ahead to give me time to work on other trains elsewhere, and when I return to Train A it has not progressed as far as I expected (probably because I forgot to take station delay into account), and Train B (usually a Class !!) has arrived and its route conflicts with Train A. If I cancel A's route to let the more important train through, I suffer an ACOA.

1) I set a route for Train A far enough ahead to give me time to work on other trains elsewhere, and when I return to Train A it has not progressed as far as I expected (probably because I forgot to take station delay into account), and Train B (usually a Class !!) has arrived and its route conflicts with Train A. If I cancel A's route to let the more important train through, I suffer an ACOA. Or,

2) Same as (1), except Train B's driver is waiting impatiently at a platform and SimSig has just given it a TRTS ahead of time.

Kev,

Again I can only speak for 1 IECC, but at TVSC the telephone and concentrator for each WKS has a reasonably large touch screen. The concentrator has lots of little boxes on the screen (often over a number of pages) and when there's an incoming call the relevant box will flash.

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Reduce 2 clicks to just one by holding Shift key down when L-clicking on a Train Describer to bring up the Interpose window.