Technician status display

Once an object has been deemed to have failed, the simulation merely applies a random timeout based on the length of failures option in the sim. The randomness of the timeout represents a combination of the time it takes S&T to get someone to the location of the failure, find the fault and then of course, actually fix it. When multiple failures have occurred, the timeouts all run simultaneously. Once the timeout on a failure is completed, the object is deemed to have been fixed, the object automatically returns to normal operation and the simulation informs you accordingly.

I don't think signalers have much sway if any to set priorities for S&T to fix failures in real life and that being so, such a feature wouldn't really fit with SimSig's simulation of an IECC.

It's not completely clear to me how the technicians work (is there one team of technicians such that only one problem can be worked on at a time, or do all problems simply last for a certain amount of time?).

Whilst not impossible, teams do not normally work on more than one fault at a time. It is fairly rare to get two faults in the same area at the same time, and it is impracticable to attend two faults in different areas as one team will never have enough staff for that. Where more than one fault exists at the time, the order to attend them is often obvious, for instance a points failure locking up a major station will take priority over the phone not working on a signal somewhere. Where there are more disruptive faults then the Technician will make a judgement on what to attend first based on conversations with the Signallers and Route Control.

EDIT: I should also add that if the Signaller wants to know what is going on with a specific fault he will just ring up the Technician and ask, there certainly isn't any complicated display available to them to see what is going on!

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Whilst not impossible, teams do not normally work on more than one fault at a time. It is fairly rare to get two faults in the same area at the same time, and it is impracticable to attend two faults in different areas as one team will never have enough staff for that. Where more than one fault exists at the time, the order to attend them is often obvious, for instance a points failure locking up a major station will take priority over the phone not working on a signal somewhere. Where there are more disruptive faults then the Technician will make a judgement on what to attend first based on conversations with the Signallers and Route Control.

EDIT: I should also add that if the Signaller wants to know what is going on with a specific fault he will just ring up the Technician and ask, there certainly isn't any complicated display available to them to see what is going on!

Yeah, I was talking about the in-game "technician" concept -- real life is of course a lot more flexible and complex.

The display doesn't necessarily need to be complicated. A simple table of "crew 1 ... enroute to signal failure at XXY ETA 2:15 / crew 2 ... testing track circuit XYZ Est. complete 5 min." would suffice.

With TC failures you could in theory use the "examine the line" instruction as a pretend test train for yourself and the technician?

I've never seen a broken rail but I envisage it as a fracture rather than a huge chunk of metal missing, though I suppose it could be either. How observable that would be from a train inspection I question.

Peter

I've never seen a broken rail but I envisage it as a fracture rather than a huge chunk of metal missing, though I suppose it could be either. How observable that would be from a train inspection I question.

Peter