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Stockport Manual

Official Files

Title	Version	Released
Simulation (Payware)	1.6	17/04/2023
15/10/2009 WTT (Midnight and 04:45 starts included)	5.0	08/06/2021
08/04/2015 WTT (Midnight, 0400 & 1400 starts included)	5.1	27/11/2021

Additional user-written timetables are available to download here .

Introduction

Stockport controls the five mechanical boxes between Manchester South and Manchester Piccadilly. The main route through the sim, between Adswood Road Junction and Slade Lane is almost exactly five miles in length.

With its near continuous trains, and very short sections, you as the signaller need to keep on top of the AB ensuring that delays are minimised

Start-Up Options

Other Options

Absolute Block: Tick to enable AB working across the simulation; see 'Features' below.

TORR: Tick to enable Train Operated Route Release . Enabling TORR is easier, however as all the signalboxes simulated are lever frames, disabling it is more prototypical.

Scale of problems: Choose the scale of train delays and infrastructure failures. The normal SimSig options of “None”, “Low”, “Medium” and “High” are available. Select which one you wish to play from the drop-down menu.

Features

Absolute Block

Absolute Block is in use between all five signalboxes at Stockport. Details on how to operate the Absolute Block system can be found in the separate Absolute Block manual .

Electrification

All lines are electrified with standard 25kV AC overhead wires, with the exception of Heaton Norris Jn- Denton Jn, and Edgeley No.2 Jn to Northenden Jn.

Use of alternate lines from fringe boxes

Interposing BLOK in the berths of EY1-48, EY1-49, HN9 and HN11 will instruct the signallers at Manchester South and Manchester Piccadilly respectively to divert all trains onto the other available line.

Box Notes

Edgeley Junction No.1

This busy box is your fringe to three external signal boxes.

• Trains from Northenden Junction must be granted a slot before they can proceed towards you. Trains to Northenden Junction must also have to have a slot, so request in plenty of time.
• There is little warning at Hazel Grove for a train approaching you. You may wish to keep an eye out for approaching trains as there is little time to lower the crossing at Woodsmoor.
• Please note, as per reality, the Liverpool lines are not connected to the rest of your lines through this box.

Edgeley Junction No.2

• When you accept a train on the Down Slow from Edgeley Junction No.1 extends to Signal ST1-106 (Or ST1-104 if you route onwards to the fast). Conversely, accepting a train on the fast line from Edgeley Junction No.1, your clearing point extends only across the diamond in advance of EY2-53. To avoid locking yourself up, it is advised not to accept a train excessively early.
• Lever 13, shown under the diagram, releases Stockport No.1 points 99 and 100. The points must be normal before its possible to replace this lever.
• There are two signals, ST1-69 and ST1-78 which belong to the Stockport No.1 signaller.

Stockport Station

• Within Stockport Station, you have two clearing points. Your longer clearing point, set by clicking the exit signal will set your Non-Stopping clearing point.
• Alternatively, if your train calls at Stockport you can use the Yellow Exit Triangle. This will set your clearing point for a stopping service. This is noted by the overlap marker closest to the signal you’re routing to. Please note that unconventionally for SimSig, this signal will not act as a delayed yellow, but will clear immediately.
• For shunting purposes, it is possible to route trains wrong direction through Stockport station. To do this, the adjacent signaller needs to pull his acceptance lever. To do this, you can request permission by clicking the roundel your side, and by the signaller adjacent clicking his roundel.
• Care should be taken with reversing trains that you don’t use a platform protected by a limit of shunt in the wrong direction. There is no facility to turn back passenger trains from the south without the train shunting to the north of the station. From the north, trains can only be turned in platforms 1 or 3A.

Stockport No.1

• There are two shunt signals located on Edgeley No.2 area labelled as Stockport No.1 signals. These are yours.

Stockport No.2

• It is necessary to call Stockport Carriage sidings for permission to send a train.

Heaton Norris Junction

• When you wish to send a train to Denton Junction, it’s recommended to request the slot with plenty of notice. This is to allow the Denton Junction signaller time to get out of his chair and accept the train. It could take in excessive of 2 mins for the slot to be granted. Requesting the slot too early could result in delaying a train from Denton.
• Trains booked to call at Levenshulme or Heaton Chapel must use the Slow line from Heaton Norris Jn; to avoid delay, it's preferable to switch them to the correct line at Stockport No.2.

Level Crossings

There is one CCTV crossing in the simulation, at Woodsmoor.

Multiplayer & Chaining

The simulation is suitable for a reasonably experienced solo player; disabling Absolute Block on start-up may assist less-experienced users.

The simulation chains at the following locations:

Simulation	Location
Cheshire Lines	Northenden Jn
Manchester East	Denton Junction
Manchester Piccadilly	Slade Lane Junction
Manchester South	Cheadle Hulme

Acknowledgments

Simulation by: James Pedrick (Predrathome)

08/04/2015 WTT by: John Mills (Meld)

Reference Section

Signal Number Plan

Stockport Signal Number Plan

This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer you can get a free download of the latest version from the Adobe website . Use the built-in Find function (Ctrl+F) to locate signal numbers.

Signal Box Prefix Codes

Code	Box
DJ	Denton Jn*
EY1	Edgeley Jn No.1
EY2	Edgeley Jn No.2
HG	Hazel Grove*
HN	Heaton Norris Jn
MP	Manchester Piccadilly*
MS	Manchester South*
NJ	Northenden Jn*
ST1	Stockport No.1
ST2	Stockport No.2

*Fringe box, signals not controlled in this simulation

Platform, Loop & Siding Lengths

Platform Lengths

Location	Platform	Length (m)
Stockport	0	143
	1	278
	2	271
	3	291
	3A	97
	4	230

Loop Lengths

Location	Loop Name	Length (m)
Heaton Norris Jn	UG	960
Stockport	DG	260
	DM	220

Siding Lengths

Location	Siding Name	Length (m)
Heaton Norris Jn	EHS	140
	ERS	45

Splash Screens

Splash01	Heaton Norris Jn Signal Box
Splash02	Stockport No.2 Signal Box
Splash03	Stockport No.1 Signal Box
Splash04	Edgeley Jn No.2 Signal Box
Splash05	Edgeley Jn No.1 Signal Box
Splash06	An East Midlands Trains Class 156 & 158 cross Stockport Viaduct on the Up Slow with a Norwich service.
Splash07	An ATW Class 175 arrives at Stockport platform 2 with a service for South Wales. On the left, ST2-F is showing Y towards ST2-44
Splash08	A Northern class 323 calls at Stockport platform 3, bound for Manchester.
Splash09	A pair of EMT class 158s approach Stockport Platform 4 on the Down Slow, while a Class 142 bound for Chester waits for the route to Northenden Jn at EY2-3.
Splash10	Class 40 No. 40 145 approaches ST2-111 on the Up Slow working a railtour. At left, ST42-44 is showing green on the Down Fast, with HN34 in the distance also showing green
Splash11	A Class 390 calls at Stockport platform 2 with a London service.
Splash12	The south end of Stockport platform 4; ST1-91 and ST1-94 are closer to the camera, with ST1-92 in the background.
Splash13	The interior of Edgeley Jn No.2 signal box; note that the simulation is orientated the opporosite way round to the diagram in this box.
Splash14	The tack diagram in Edgeley Jn No.1 box; like No.2, the simulation is oriented the opposite way round.
Splash15	Edgeley Jn No.1 lever frame and block shelf; the length of the frame was likely reduced when colour light signalling replaced semaphores
Splash16	Edgeley Jn No.2 box, photographed from the Liverpool line side.
Splash17	Heaton Norris Jn signal box
Splash18	The interior of Heaton Norris Jn signal box
Splash19	Block instruments within Heaton Norris Jn signal box
Splash20	Heaton Norris Jn signalbox diagram
Splash21	Two levers control the Down signals labelled A-F at Stockport No.2; one for routes via Points 92, the other for routes via Points 95. Which signal clears, and for which route, is determined by the lie of the points. The indicators in this picture show which signals are cleared to which line; when the photograph was taken, ST2-C and ST2-F were cleared for the Down Slow and Down Fast respecively
Splash22	The interior of Stockport No.1 box
Splash23	Old and new technology sits side by side on the block shelf in Stockport No.1 box
Splash24	Stockport No.2 box

Version History

Version History

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Last edited by Steamer on 18/04/2023 at 16:11