West Highland Line

Many people wanted this. I hope West Highland Fort William to Mallaig will be released. It is a simulation of Banavie Signal Box. The swing bridge is all automatic and the signal on bridge will be red if the boat will come. Banavie level crossing will also be included. RETB also. I'll provide some mockups later. I will start my work on Scratch but for beginning, simpler. A simple signal box simulation like Yapton crossing.

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Many people wanted this. I hope West Highland Fort William to Mallaig will be released. It is a simulation of Banavie Signal Box. The swing bridge is all automatic and the signal on bridge will be red if the boat will come. Banavie level crossing will also be included. RETB also. I'll provide some mockups later. I will start my work on Scratch but for beginning, simpler. A simple signal box simulation like Yapton crossing.

I'm not sure that "many people"who use Simsig want this. It would be a sim with very little action; in 2015 the peak season timetable had 6 passenger trains (including the steam-hauled Jacobite) in each direction per day. The only freight listed in the current WTTs is the 3 times a week Alcan train which might impinge on this sim at the Fort William end. If you are the signaller operating the sim this would mean long gaps between each action the you were required to make. You would also only have 2 regulating decisions to make each day which would be to decide where The Jacobite crossed the service train in the other direction. It is a lovely journey to make in real life and other simulations which are aimed at modelling the operation of other parts of the railway may be very interesting, However, I reckon that a lot of those who enjoy SimSig would find the level of activity required a bit boring if the line was created as a signalling simulation.

Or the Borders Railway if it were to be added to Edinburgh (not sure if it can be, though).

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Or the Borders Railway if it were to be added to Edinburgh (not sure if it can be, though).

It will be when I get round to it - I have the data.

Peter

So if a WHL simulation was seriously attempted, I suppose something could be thought up, maybe involving judicious usage of stop boards where appropriate to simulate the radio calls and token transmissions and using a non-track circuited display with invisible routes (like those on the Up Loops in Falkland Yard in Paisley) to approximate the signaller's display. And if the hypothetical North Scotland sim ever became reality, it would face the same problems regarding the RETB areas.

Despite being VDU based, the RETB screen layouts look very different from the IECC standard. You could probably come up with some bodged version but I feel it would be a massive departure from the realism on which Simsig was founded.

Well yes a current version would be more of a token simulator than a signal simulator. I know people would like to see the whole country covered but I wouldn't really be bothered if it didn't come out, more interesting to drive it on Railworks.

Even then if it was a full RETB sim where you issued tokens, it would probably be exiting for a few minutes before coming a bit boring, especially if you issue a long section and then you don't need do anything until it's gone through two sections.

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Many people wanted this. I hope West Highland Fort William to Mallaig will be released. It is a simulation of Banavie Signal Box. The swing bridge is all automatic and the signal on bridge will be red if the boat will come. Banavie level crossing will also be included. RETB also. I'll provide some mockups later. I will start my work on Scratch but for beginning, simpler. A simple signal box simulation like Yapton crossing.

I'm not sure that "many people"who use Simsig want this. It would be a sim with very little action; in 2015 the peak season timetable had 6 passenger trains (including the steam-hauled Jacobite) in each direction per day. The only freight listed in the current WTTs is the 3 times a week Alcan train which might impinge on this sim at the Fort William end. If you are the signaller operating the sim this would mean long gaps between each action the you were required to make. You would also only have 2 regulating decisions to make each day which would be to decide where The Jacobite crossed the service train in the other direction. It is a lovely journey to make in real life and other simulations which are aimed at modelling the operation of other parts of the railway may be very interesting, However, I reckon that a lot of those who enjoy SimSig would find the level of activity required a bit boring if the line was created as a signalling simulation.