Timetable not showing in loader

If that’s an admission you’ve fiddled with the XML I really, really wouldn’t waste your time on it - you’ll very likely spend more time trying to fix it than just going back and doing the timetable in the editor properly.

I cannot stress strongly enough - do not fiddle with the XML unless you know exactly what you are doing. The thread so far is evidence you do not, so just steer well clear.

JamesN in post 140736 said:

If that’s an admission you’ve fiddled with the XML I really, really wouldn’t waste your time on it - you’ll very likely spend more time trying to fix it than just going back and doing the timetable in the editor properly.

I cannot stress strongly enough - do not fiddle with the XML unless you know exactly what you are doing. The thread so far is evidence you do not, so just steer well clear.

Bad '.wtt' through xml editing errors will usually try to load and then report as 'not a Simsig timetable' rather than not show in the list.

Perhaps we need to take a step back.

When you save a TT, you give it a file name and it then saves as "filename.wtt". However, the Loader is not reading that filename. The loader reads the name from the Timetable Name box on the front tab of the TT. If you have edited a previous timetable and saved as a new "filename.wtt" but have not changed the data in the Timetable Name box then the sim will just read the name from the box. Looking at the screenshots, I am guessing that you have a previous STAFFORDSHIRE 20-11-03 timetable which you have edited and then resaved as Sunday July-August.wtt. When you load the Staffordshire sim and get to the timetable selection screen you are then seeing 2 x STAFFORDSHIRE 20-11-03 rather than one STAFFORDSHIRE 20-11-03 and one Sunday July-August. As JamesN suggests earlier in the thread, if you click on the two STAFFORDSHIRE 20-11-03 TTs then look in the details on the right hand side of the screen, at the bottom of the text there is a line telling you the name and location of the file that you have clicked on. One will point to ..../STAFFORDSHIRE 20-11-03.WTT while the other will point to ..../Sunday July-August.WTT.

To avoid the problem, when you save an edited version of an existing timetable, change the name in the Timetable Name box before saving. When you go to Save As . . the filename for the TT to be saved will default to the name in the Timetable Name box although you can edit the file name before you save. That will not affect how the loader reads your TT and it will always display what remains in the Timetable Name box.

Taking the above in, You have a situation where you want to copy a few schedules and use the save selected option to do some work on / test them separately. You get the normal save timetable as window where you give your save a name. This will save the TT under the new name, but the display in the loader TT window will be the same as the original as Postal says.

During TT creation I've had numerous copies of simX 2015-04-08 SX in my TT loader window. After messing up a major project and required a lot of reverting to fix, now I'll save the original TT before using the save selected option.

As both JamesN & Headshot have said and I fully agree, You don't want to be poking (poilte by my standards ) around in the raw xml unless you know what your doing.