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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 14:46 #160111
bugsy
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1823 posts 		In the 1981 timetable, if you have a train on the UP line at Finningley waiting for the Ground Frame to activate, is the time period fixed or does it vary from game to game?

I recently started a game and got fed up waiting, so abandoned it and started a new game in which there wasn’t a train at that location.
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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 14:59 #160112
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99 posts 		Are you sure it wasn't a work train within a possession, seem to recall having something similar & it was a train diagrammed to be working in the same place for a fair amount of time.
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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 15:18 #160114
jc92
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3712 posts 		Mondays in the 1981 timetable have a Posession on at Finningley with trains returning to Woodyard. IIRC I set them up to sit for several hours and wait for time.

When you say activate the ground frame, do you mean for the train to cross over it, or for the release to be given?
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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 15:44 #160117
bugsy
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1823 posts 		jc92 in post 160114 said:
Mondays in the 1981 timetable have a Posession on at Finningley with trains returning to Woodyard. IIRC I set them up to sit for several hours and wait for time.

When you say activate the ground frame, do you mean for the train to cross over it, or for the release to be given?
Yes, it was the Monday timetable. I was waiting for the release to be given. The green roundel just kept flashing. I didn't relaise that it was an engineering possession, but that answers some questions for me.
Would there have been anything that I missed when first starting the sim, like some notes?
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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 15:51 #160118
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1113 posts 		bugsy in post 160117 said:
jc92 in post 160114 said:
Mondays in the 1981 timetable have a Posession on at Finningley with trains returning to Woodyard. IIRC I set them up to sit for several hours and wait for time.

When you say activate the ground frame, do you mean for the train to cross over it, or for the release to be given?
Yes, it was the Monday timetable. I was waiting for the release to be given. The green roundel just kept flashing. I didn't relaise that it was an engineering possession, but that answers some questions for me.
Would there have been anything that I missed when first starting the sim, like some notes?
The ground frame has a 120sec timeout.
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Finningley Ground frame: Today at 16:03 #160121
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1823 posts 		MarkC in post 160118 said:
bugsy in post 160117 said:
jc92 in post 160114 said:
Mondays in the 1981 timetable have a Posession on at Finningley with trains returning to Woodyard. IIRC I set them up to sit for several hours and wait for time.

When you say activate the ground frame, do you mean for the train to cross over it, or for the release to be given?
Yes, it was the Monday timetable. I was waiting for the release to be given. The green roundel just kept flashing. I didn't relaise that it was an engineering possession, but that answers some questions for me.
Would there have been anything that I missed when first starting the sim, like some notes?
The ground frame has a 120sec timeout.
I thought that I was waiting longer than that, but I must be mistaken.
I shall make a note of this so that the next time I will know what's happening.

Thanks.
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