Train Type in F2 View

Also, there is a bug where all the trains in the sim have their train type reset to "Custom" after loading a saved game.

Yes, the Description does show up in the F2 window (i.e. 1600 Kings Cross-Edinburgh), but the Train Type (i.e. HST or Class 91) does not. In particular, I am looking at the 4 Day timetable and Steam timetable for Kings Cross, which do not list the train type in the Description field. I was asking if there was a way to see the Train Type as well in the F2 window.

The bug appears in all the Loader sims, as well as some older ones such as Carlisle.

I've just loaded a handful of saves and all the trains come up with their categories still allocated. The only ones that came up as Custom were those that had custom selected in their original timetable (ie the WTT file, not the .SSG save). Can you identify a single train in a single timetable and simulation so we can check please?

I have been updating the Saltley and Bristol for a little while now for example 2J02-E ( LM Cl 158-3 Car-Turbo-DMU-075 ). The suffixes indicate the speed A 125 E 75 this is only used for passenger trains obviously. For goods trains it will be 4M76 ( DRS Cl 37 x 2-054-060 ) BNF Train the 054 is the trailing load and 060 is the maximum speed but I think by the time I have finished doing all this they will both be loader Sims not sure if I will be able to upload them

I think by the time I have finished doing all this they will both be loader Sims not sure if I will be able to upload them

2J02-E ( LM Cl 158-3 Car-Turbo-DMU-075 )

Yes, it is great to have all this information in the train description. Unfortunately, there are quite a few timetables that don't include the rolling stock in the description.

So to improve the information available to the player, especially in multiplayer where the timetable editor is not available, can we please add an option to add an column to the F2 page that shows the Train Type? Looking at the Simplifier, there is a column with this information already there, so would it be possible to make this information appear in the F2 view as well?

Forgive me for playing devils advocate, but why? As you say it's already in the simplifier, and there's no guarantee that the timetable writer has used a meaningful name for the train category - indeed most freights in my timetables are done as "custom" as they use to-the-metre lengths rather than generic 3/400m etc.

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Yes, it is great to have all this information in the train description. Unfortunately, there are quite a few timetables that don't include the rolling stock in the description.

So to improve the information available to the player, especially in multiplayer where the timetable editor is not available, can we please add an option to add an column to the F2 page that shows the Train Type? Looking at the Simplifier, there is a column with this information already there, so would it be possible to make this information appear in the F2 view as well?

Forgive me for playing devils advocate, but why? As you say it's already in the simplifier, and there's no guarantee that the timetable writer has used a meaningful name for the train category - indeed most freights in my timetables are done as "custom" as they use to-the-metre lengths rather than generic 3/400m etc.