Rugby Centre: More Northampton problems

Anyway in demo22 I have just killed 5Y00 and 2Y57 will at last depart. I hate killing trains, and I don't know how I could have avoided getting into this situation.

I'm not sure whether this is a timetable error or inherent in the sim. I am running the basic supplied timetable.

In demo 22 attached, 5W82 has been waiting in platform 1 at Northampton for some time. The much delayed 1W82 has finally arrived and coupled to it, correctly. 1W82 now asks for the road. The TRTS light is flashing, correctly. However the signal will not clear automatically even though 1W82 is in ARS mode. If you press "Query ARS Routesetting status" for 1W82, it responds "Waiting for joining train 5W82". In fact 5W82 has already disappeared, having been coupled to 1W82. It correctly does not appear in the train list F2.

At the same time 2Y57 is TRTS in the down direction, but will not leave, because 5Y00 is in front. 5Y00 is booked to depart at 08:38 (over an hour later) and is shown at the buffer stops. (Incidentally in F2, if several trains are in a platform road, there is no way to tell what sequence they are in, is there?

Anyway in demo22 I have just killed 5Y00 and 2Y57 will at last depart. I hate killing trains, and I don't know how I could have avoided getting into this situation.

"One would think that setting a route manually would be better than "killing" a train."

Well, as I said, 5Y00 is shown in front of 2Y57. 2Y57 needs to depart now, and 5Y00 isn't going to move for another hour or more. I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting as a solution here?

"One would think that setting a route manually would be better than "killing" a train."

Well, as I said, 5Y00 is shown in front of 2Y57. 2Y57 needs to depart now, and 5Y00 isn't going to move for another hour or more. I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting as a solution here?

1W82 is still refusing to call the route even though ARS enabled, at Hanslope ... it is still saying "Waiting for joining train 5W82".

Does anyone know how to edit the ARS rules fro individual trains?

1W82 is still refusing to call the route even though ARS enabled, at Hanslope ... it is still saying "Waiting for joining train 5W82".

Does anyone know how to edit the ARS rules fro individual trains?

Thank you Headshot119 and MarkC.

Yes, ARS is not perfect and this is understandable in the situation when trains are running seriously out of course and the rules are inappropriate. But that isn't the case I referred to. 1W82 is ARS but will not call the route supposedly because it is waiting for a joining train, even though it is in plain line miles from the joining point. No junctions, no conflicts.

Of course you can work around this by setting the route manually, but nevertheless this is a serious problem in the precedence rules.

I am now running just after 08:00 and 1W86 has coupled to 5W86 and just left Northampton towards London. It won't call HN5304 for the same reason. Of course I can clear it manually, but I need to remember to do it when it gets to Hanslope because it will otherwise wait at HN5284, and, frankly I may not be looking at that part of the screen.

MarkC putting it in and out of ARS doesn't affect this at all.