2004 Timetable Sample
This layout was built with TRS2004 as an alternative to the TRS2006 Timetable challenge by Segy. The timetable is based on the real timetable for trains passing through the city of Exeter on a Friday in 1990. Ive also put some extra special trains into the layout for the purpose of demonstrating some of the other operations that could be carried out making use of driver commands. Ive included a copy of the timetable in the map folder.
The session starts at 11.15hrs and several trains will move into position, as these would have arrived earlier on, ready for their departure time. The drivers of the TT Trains are named one to six, these are the engines that are set up to pass a trigger which will then cause the portal to creat that train. Although ive used several portals, you could use one as long as you give the portals enough time to produce the consist and for the consist to leave room for the next one. I use the "wait until hour" and "wait until minute" commands to control the engines departure and "drive via trackmark" and "drive to trackmark" for their directions.
The seventh driver in the driver set up has been used as station master to control departures from the station and uses both of the wait until commands together with the post message command. Trains have been set up in the Central Portal Control rule. These trains have been set up with the driver commands for the journey they will undertake. After the load at station i use the "wait for post message and clear" command so the train will depart when the station master posts his message. Next it will copy the commands Gaurds whistle, wait 5 seconds and hornz, from the schedule library then proceed to next station.
You can download the gaurds whistle command but you need to open the config file and alter the build from 2.5 to 2.3 for it to work in 04.
The specials have been placed into the operation for this demo but you can get a TT Train to drive via the special trackmarks anytime you want to throw a bit of confusion into the times. The first special arrives at Central station at 11.40hrs, it is a steam special and it will drop of half the carriages before departing to St Davids. The shunter will pick up the carriages and move them into the sidings. At about 12.10hrs the steam train will return at St Davids. The steam special will arrive at Central and will have the carriages attached that where left behind earlier. At 12.51hrs a four unit train will arrive at Central and split into two separate trains both departing for different places via St Davids. About 13.10hrs a second special will pass through St David's for the south. At about 13.42hrs at St David's two units will connect to form a single train for central station. The goods yard will have trains arrive and some will move the engines from one end to the other, they will wait here before departing.
This is only an example of how a timetable could be used in trainz but would need a better post message set up than is available on the DLS at present, ive created on of my own for my devon lines route which has a much bigger selection for stations. Use a spreadsheet to work out the times, platforms etc to avoid conflicts if possible.
Stagecoach
This is now in the process of being uploaded to the DLS.
