Signal 136I Will Not Clear With Routes Set To Tracks 905/6/7

[pblanksb]

Firstly, let me congratulate the developers on a great new simulation, I am thoroughly enjoying running it.

 

I am running the sim with the update to Version 3.6.1.6 and I've been running the timetable from 0001hrs Sunday 05/07/15, and until around 0900 everything has worked as planned. However, I just tried to make a shunt move from Track 167 to Track 471/916/906 and found that signal 136I would not clear, either as part of a super route or on its own. I had to authorise the movement to pass signal 136I. I then set routes to 907 and 905 but each time 136I would not clear. 136I does clear with a route set to Track 134. I've read through the Wiki notes again to see if there is something I may have missed (eg special conditions required when setting routes to these tracks) but didn't find anything. Have I missed something? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Many thanks.

 

Regards, 

 

Phil.

[PeteEHAM]

Hi,

 

As far as I understand you can only set shunt routes to 471/916/906. You'll have to set the route shunt signal to shunt signal. In your case you can set a shunt route from 167 to 136, 136 to 906 (the last button in the dark grey area) and finally x916 to 471 (x916 is the lower button in the light grey area). The light grey area used to be a separate stellwerk, hence the routing from shunt signal to shunt signal.

 

This should work, at least it does for me.

 

Greetings

[pblanksb]

Hi Pete,

 

Many thanks for your help, problem solved. I had not set the route from x916 to 471. I've just tried it and 136I clears. 

 

Thanks again.

 

Regards,

 

Phil.

[Helmut]

Hi Phil, hi Pete,

 

I'm glad you both found the solution already.

 

As Pete already said, the light grey area used to be a seperate signal box before. The separation between the main station and this area was at track 901/911, 902/912, 903/913, 908/918, 904/914 and in the middle of the tracks 470, 471 and 472 shown as 905/915, 906/916 and 907/917.

Within the dark grey area you can set shunt routes as super routes. The end of those routes is always track 901, 902 ... 908. From there you have to set the second part to 911, 912 ... 917. Within the light grey area you can only set a shunt from signal to signal.
For shunt routes from the light grey to the dark grey area of the panel you have to act in the same way for the seperating tracks. Tracks 470, 471 and 472 are cases apart. Here you can set the route to the middle of the track and the signal will clear. (I think this has something to do with stabling trains on this tracks.)

 

Be aware that if you set a shunt route to track 471 from e.g. track 167 (167-906,x916-417) and another train is already stabled there, the new train will stop behind the stabled one and will not release the second part of the shunt route (x916-471). This you have to do manually by using the FRT for this part of the shunt route(x916-471). If you forget this you won't be able to set a shunt route from Ls 401 to track 471 to place a third train on this track (happens once a day).

 

Regards

[pblanksb]

Hi Helmut,

 

Thank you for the advice regarding having to manually cancel the remainder of the routes in tracks 470-472. That would have been another trap waiting for me to fall into.

 

I realise that the lighter area used to belong to another signalbox so there are co-operative releases similar to Wuppertal Langerfelde, but I've also just realised why I couldn't understand why 136I would not clear when I thought it should. I've just made a shunt move from Track 457 to 471, and when setting a route from 401 to 916 the whole route calls to Track 906 and 401 clears without having to set 916 to 906. I thought the same would happen going from 136I to 916 but it doesn't, you have to set x916 to 471 for the whole route to call and signal 136I to clear. 

 

Jetzt ist alles klar. 

 

Regards,

 

Phil.