Post by james37611 on Apr 29, 2020 2:00:26 GMT
Hello,
Having finished my Met Rush hour scenario set for Train Sim 2020, I've moved on to doing a 2018 one for the excellent Virtual District.
It does have a very useful guide but I do need a bit of help please.
1. Tuesdays HSK peak hot spare. I noticed this in the spare trains notes, a Tuesday Only run from Ealing Common (in service from Acton) to High Street Ken P4 and spare for the evening, to be returned to Ealing Common (empty throughout?) for 21.10, unless it means standing down at 21.10 then empty to Ealing?
Interested to know about this, Tuesday's sounds a bit random is there a reason? Is a spare needed as things go wrong on Tuesdays? I guess other days it sits at Ealing Common all day?
If not required, I guess it returns to the depot via Ealing Common to enter the depot on the West end. I take it otherwise at HSK it would only be used if a train failed, not covering a train that's 10-15 minutes late?
2. Talking on Ealing Depot, where are the inter peak stablers parked up? In the evening they all head East, but from what I can make out, trains cannot cross the 'middle line' in the shed without some form of shunter and permissions, so I can only make the assumption that these don't stable in the shed? Or do they park at the West end and then later shunted to the east end?
If exiting on the East end, I assume its Restricted Manual on the control switch until the signal at the bottom of the exit ramp and then put into Tripcock mode?
3. I remember being on D stocks at around Gloucester Road or Earls Court and the destination being changed from Wimbledon to Richmond, or Ealing Broadway instead of Richmond.
Can this happen in the peak hour still? assuming a change is done if services are late and destinations are changed along with train numbers to recover time (e.g train 103 becomes 052 or something) is that correct?
Any help is most appreciated! I want to make this as realistic as I can. Having studied the Working Timetable in detail I didn't even know the Circle Line frequency is every 10 mins even in the peak, with morning Edgware Road district services following behind every 10 minutes, so between High Street Ken and Paddington Praed Street, it's about a train every 5 minutes. Is this the longest between trains in the morning peak for zone 1?
Having also seen the District Services through Tower Hill in the timetable, I realise why the Circle has to be every 10 minutes! Not many paths for it!
James.
Having finished my Met Rush hour scenario set for Train Sim 2020, I've moved on to doing a 2018 one for the excellent Virtual District.
It does have a very useful guide but I do need a bit of help please.
1. Tuesdays HSK peak hot spare. I noticed this in the spare trains notes, a Tuesday Only run from Ealing Common (in service from Acton) to High Street Ken P4 and spare for the evening, to be returned to Ealing Common (empty throughout?) for 21.10, unless it means standing down at 21.10 then empty to Ealing?
Interested to know about this, Tuesday's sounds a bit random is there a reason? Is a spare needed as things go wrong on Tuesdays? I guess other days it sits at Ealing Common all day?
If not required, I guess it returns to the depot via Ealing Common to enter the depot on the West end. I take it otherwise at HSK it would only be used if a train failed, not covering a train that's 10-15 minutes late?
2. Talking on Ealing Depot, where are the inter peak stablers parked up? In the evening they all head East, but from what I can make out, trains cannot cross the 'middle line' in the shed without some form of shunter and permissions, so I can only make the assumption that these don't stable in the shed? Or do they park at the West end and then later shunted to the east end?
If exiting on the East end, I assume its Restricted Manual on the control switch until the signal at the bottom of the exit ramp and then put into Tripcock mode?
3. I remember being on D stocks at around Gloucester Road or Earls Court and the destination being changed from Wimbledon to Richmond, or Ealing Broadway instead of Richmond.
Can this happen in the peak hour still? assuming a change is done if services are late and destinations are changed along with train numbers to recover time (e.g train 103 becomes 052 or something) is that correct?
Any help is most appreciated! I want to make this as realistic as I can. Having studied the Working Timetable in detail I didn't even know the Circle Line frequency is every 10 mins even in the peak, with morning Edgware Road district services following behind every 10 minutes, so between High Street Ken and Paddington Praed Street, it's about a train every 5 minutes. Is this the longest between trains in the morning peak for zone 1?
Having also seen the District Services through Tower Hill in the timetable, I realise why the Circle has to be every 10 minutes! Not many paths for it!
James.
