Replies to telephone calls

lazzer in post 114839 said:

JamesN in post 114814 said:

Nowadays, with GSM-R and ways/means of the signaller contacting the driver I'd agree with you. But that's only a very modern (last few years) invention. Previously drivers would have to check in regularly as the signaller would have no way of contacting them.

Dealing with lots of calls is part of the job - tune it out and prioritise. There's no score for the fastest answered telephone call.

Simsiggers who have been playing for a year or more may have noticed that as soon as a train comes to a stand at a red signal, you receive a message notifying you that its waiting there (without a phone call). This, I can only assume, is a simulation of the driver pressing the SG button on the GSM-R, which is the way we let a signaller know we're stood at a red signal in the first instance if no emergency has taken place. So, as far as I'm concerned, the game already acknowledges that GSM-R exists, and that drivers are using it correctly.

But I agree that it would be nice to have a more flexible driver-to-signaller interface (as no doubt some manager or other on the railway would call it) so we could tell the buggers to stop calling in all the time. :)

In pre-GSM days the Driver was always on the SPT quickly if you stopped him by accident, but stayed in the cab if you needed him on the phone to give him instructions! Drivers always used to swear (and may well still do) that each signal was equipped with a pressure pad that allowed the Signalman to pull off as soon as the Driver set foot near the signal.

Kev

I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45

jc92 in post 114849 said:

I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45

That one is definitely on the cards to be done.

To explain to others why this is significant, this is a sort of hack where we give the arrival and departure times of the loop where the train sits solely to wait for other trains to pass. If there was no other traffic around, the train could leave early (perhaps not even stop), so we put it in as a "passing time". But if the train is stopped, then we would like him to "wait for booked 00:45".

jc92 in post 114849 said:

I was thinking the same as Keith.

If train is booked:

Loop 00:01 00/45

That one is definitely on the cards to be done.

To explain to others why this is significant, this is a sort of hack where we give the arrival and departure times of the loop where the train sits solely to wait for other trains to pass. If there was no other traffic around, the train could leave early (perhaps not even stop), so we put it in as a "passing time". But if the train is stopped, then we would like him to "wait for booked 00:45".