Birmingham Meet, 23rd. March 2019 - Simulation Speculation

Meld in post 114463 said:

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BTW the TT department is still in the dark as much as you lot are

Until March the 22nd when you get asked for 5 tt's for the next day....

TimTamToe in post 114512 said:

Meld in post 114463 said:

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BTW the TT department is still in the dark as much as you lot are

Until March the 22nd when you get asked for 5 tt's for the next day....

If I'm lucky I get 2 days notice ;)

Meld in post 114514 said:

TimTamToe in post 114512 said:

Meld in post 114463 said:

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BTW the TT department is still in the dark as much as you lot are

Until March the 22nd when you get asked for 5 tt's for the next day....

If I'm lucky I get 2 days notice ;)

Oi, Next time I give you a sim to timetable, You'll be lucky to get 5 mins notice

The development team are pleased to announce that at least one brand new simulation will be previewed at the March 2019 meet. We reckon you will love this simulation.

This thread is purely for speculation over what the simulation may be.

The rumour I'd heard was a special sim for Mr Gallon, the heritage Royal Mail underground line in London ;)

Gareth

[quote=headshot119;post=114391]Or even better... Salisbury to Honiton !!!

axmh in post 114517 said:

[quote=headshot119;post=114391]Or even better... Salisbury to Honiton !!!

There was once a piece of software distributed for doing mockups of SimSig layouts. I can't get it to work nowadays so I can't correct this effort but I used the photos of Basingstoke ASC (Salisbury to Exeter) - https://photos.signalling.org/index?/category/31-west_of_england_panel - to produce the attached.

I did also try and do a Poole to Wool mockup and still have that also.

Dave

DaveHarries in post 114889 said:

axmh in post 114517 said:

[quote=headshot119;post=114391]Or even better... Salisbury to Honiton !!!

There was once a piece of software distributed for doing mockups of SimSig layouts. I can't get it to work nowadays so I can't correct this effort but I used the photos of Basingstoke ASC (Salisbury to Exeter) - https://photos.signalling.org/index?/category/31-west_of_england_panel - to produce the attached.

I did also try and do a Poole to Wool mockup and still have that also.

Dave

What software was it called?

ajax103 in post 114891 said:

DaveHarries in post 114889 said:

axmh in post 114517 said:

[quote=headshot119;post=114391]Or even better... Salisbury to Honiton !!!

There was once a piece of software distributed for doing mockups of SimSig layouts. I can't get it to work nowadays so I can't correct this effort but I used the photos of Basingstoke ASC (Salisbury to Exeter) - https://photos.signalling.org/index?/category/31-west_of_england_panel - to produce the attached.

I did also try and do a Poole to Wool mockup and still have that also.

Dave

What software was it called?

S-box Track and Signals Editor. It was a good interface. The files for it were never uploaded onto this site but it was great fun to use.

What I did was to draw the layout on S-box, then do the colours on MS Paint by screen grabbing part of a SimSig layout and extracting the colours from the screen grab.

Dave

Another sim possibility I might hazard a guess at, albeit probably wrongly, for the Birmingham meet (even though I will be in Devon that weekend) would be Cambridge as a loader sim to chain with West Anglia. There would be an updated layout of the Cambridge area to incorporate Cambridge North and perhaps also the Breckland line (ie. the route through Attleborough, Shippea Hill, etc.) as I believe it is called and which is, I believe, now controlled from Cambridge.

More likely to be either Crewe or Doncaster PSB than an updated Cambridge though I suspect.

Dave

Another sim possibility I might hazard a guess at, albeit probably wrongly, for the Birmingham meet (even though I will be in Devon that weekend) would be Cambridge as a loader sim to chain with West Anglia.

As case is with a loader version of Cambridge but apart from the new layout at Cambridge itself and Cambridge North, I hope it's possible to see more of the Breckland line as signalling is now done from Cambridge although I'm not sure how far to Norwich that Cambridge actually controls?

I'm thinking it could be either a Western region sim or a Eastern region sim both could easily chain to existing sims, neither of the ones I'm thinking about haven't yet been discussed I think.

I don't think we're looking at a Southern, Midlands or Scottish sims though as most of them are known to be in development.

I'm probably wrong in my thinking but these are the two regions I think will house this new sim.

And no I'm not a betting man before anyone says!

ajax103 in post 115923 said:

I'm thinking it could be either a Western region sim or a Eastern region sim both could easily chain to existing sims, neither of the ones I'm thinking about haven't yet been discussed I think.

I don't think we're looking at a Southern, Midlands or Scottish sims though as most of them are known to be in development.

I'm probably wrong in my thinking but these are the two regions I think will house this new sim.

And no I'm not a betting man before anyone says!

Western region would be fun (AB to Penzance anyone?) but if we looked into Midlands region then we have most of that area. We have Saltley PSB, Birmingham New Street, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Derby, Leamington Spa and Aston so only two parts are missing from the Midlands: they are Stourbridge Junction and Walsall. Walsall could also give a means to chain to Stafford(shire) through the branch at Rugeley Trent Valley. It will be interesting to see what the new sim proves to be so it is a pity that I will be in Devon that weekend.

Dave

Are you not forgetting Leicester for the Midlands as that would chain with West Hampstead, Rugby North and I'm not sure but Derby too?

ajax103 in post 115927 said:

Are you not forgetting Leicester for the Midlands as that would chain with West Hampstead, Rugby North and I'm not sure but Derby too?

Good point: I had forgotten and that would be a good size chain too.

Dave

DaveHarries in post 115936 said:

ajax103 in post 115927 said:

Are you not forgetting Leicester for the Midlands as that would chain with West Hampstead, Rugby North and I'm not sure but Derby too?

Good point: I had forgotten and that would be a good size chain too.

Dave

So would Tyneside, York, Doncaster (if and when produced), Peterborough and Kings Cross for those interested in such things.

So would Tyneside, York, Doncaster (if and when produced), Peterborough and Kings Cross for those interested in such things.