2A57 won't budge from Brighton

'Awaiting authority' messages indicate the train is indeed awaiting authority from you. The driver will call you within a few seconds of that status first appearing.

No other routes set, so I deduced this was due to 2A57's bum extending beyond P6. Shortening 2A57 to 150m made no difference.

Will look more closely at my telephone messages with that in mind.

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Will look more closely at my telephone messages with that in mind.

You press "A" or click on the phone button pretty much immediately as soon as it starts flashing, yes?

You press "A" or click on the phone button pretty much immediately as soon as it starts flashing, yes?

As far as Up and Down are concerned, it's a little more complicated than might appear. Recall that my troublesome train was at Brighton platform 6, topologically midway between the East Branch and the Main Line. Since no route was set, and the Up/Down directions are opposite for these two lines, it's not absolutely clear to me which line SimSig has in mind when it says "Up" or "Down" on the Train List, particularly after I decided to abandon the Timetable! I suspect however, that it was referring to the previous intended route, i.e., the Main Line. So if the train still fails to move, trying Reversing Direction might be the only way to find out.

dmaze wrote:
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You press "A" or click on the phone button pretty much immediately as soon as it starts flashing, yes?

When things are going well for me that is what I do. Right now I seem to be a lot further behind, so I tend to answer the drivers every 20 minutes, whether they need answering or not.

I seem to find that by the time I tell the last caller to wait 15 minutes before phoning back, the first one on the list starts ringing again. This leaves me with little time left for setting routes, etc., a bit like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, as we put it. By the time you get to one end it's time to start again at the other.

dmaze wrote:
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You press "A" or click on the phone button pretty much immediately as soon as it starts flashing, yes?

When things are going well for me that is what I do. Right now I seem to be a lot further behind, so I tend to answer the drivers every 20 minutes, whether they need answering or not.

I seem to find that by the time I tell the last caller to wait 15 minutes before phoning back, the first one on the list starts ringing again. This leaves me with little time left for setting routes, etc., a bit like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, as we put it. By the time you get to one end it's time to start again at the other.

The topology of these things can be confusing though and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that up and down might be swapped over in, say, platforms 7 and 8. There are certainly places where similar things do happen: near Doncaster there's about a mile of four-track route where a train heading away from Doncaster on either Fast or Slow is an up train, a train heading towards Doncaster on the Fast is a down train, but a train heading in the same direction on the Slow is, er, also an up train.

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The topology of these things can be confusing though and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that up and down might be swapped over in, say, platforms 7 and 8. There are certainly places where similar things do happen: near Doncaster there's about a mile of four-track route where a train heading away from Doncaster on either Fast or Slow is an up train, a train heading towards Doncaster on the Fast is a down train, but a train heading in the same direction on the Slow is, er, also an up train.

Kirk Sandall, by any chance? I can see why the Down Slow becomes the Up South Yorks where it does (no connection back to the Down Main after that), but it's certainly not what you'd expect!

'Awaiting authority' messages indicate the train is indeed awaiting authority from you.[...] the one call requesting authority to make an unsignalled move.

(It's possible to override this in a sim. IIRC, there's somewhere in Sheffield station where a reversing train is allowed (both in real life and SimSig) to proceed forward over points without authority. Platform 1?)

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(It's possible to override this in a sim. IIRC, there's somewhere in Sheffield station where a reversing train is allowed (both in real life and SimSig) to proceed forward over points without authority. Platform 1?)

It would have to be Platform 1B; Platform 6 also has mid-platform points, but not in a position where they're likely to be between a train and a signal.