Classic British Flight Sim

Ha! Caught you studying the plan!

But you're right. (Real World explanation coming up ... Two Juliet one two has the road set clear through Hornsey probably to Kings Cross and is obviously running late. The initial '2' designates them both as stopping trains and what I reckon has happened is this: 2J12 has lost a couple of minutes somewhere and passengers for 2K20, the next train, are arriving at the station ready for their train, which is now being delayed by 2J12, which is now severely overcrowded as people jump on thinking it is 2K20. Despite the pleadings of the guard and the platform staff they will delay the train even further as they try to squeeze in through the doors and start arguing and remonstrating about having to get to work on time. Meanwhile 2K20 is sitting quietly outside the station virtually empty. By the time they get to Kings Cross there will be hundreds of irate passengers from the first train who are late and have had an horrendous journey. And a couple of minutes later there will be a couple of dozen, who will also be late, but wondering why their journey to work was so comfortable today! And those two trains will now be running late most of the morning and consequently delaying every other train that gets behind them.

Perhaps we should use simsig as a compulsory course to complete before we issue season tickets so commuters realise that sometimes it is them that cause their trains to be delayed.

So there

Ian

Fascinating Ian.. truely fascinating

ATB

DaveB :tab:

DaveB wrote:Fascinating Ian.. truely fascinating

They shouldn't start me off!

Ian


Of course, we have no way of knowing if it really was morning rush, since the whole control area appears to be "Paused." I suspect the signal controller was on a tea break and couldn't be ars*ed about the delay! :roll:
Blaming the hapless commuter isn't going to cut it.

Wasnt 1A26 one of the last Deltic runs back in 81 ?, seem to remember that service being a regular booking for deltics ?.

Anorkas, I have loads of them, I get them out every now and again and dust them off, but no bus ones LOL, thats just a step too far in my books LOL.

I believe in the US trainspotters are called foamers ?, quite apt really when you see some of these characters in real life, and there reactions to certain stock LOL.

Sadly, gladly ?, trains form a bigger interest to me than planes, yet it seems to have the biggest proportion of nutters on the web, flight sim has its share of 'out there' characters but train sim seems to breed them at an inordinate rate. I have to admit to being more interested in the mechanics really, trainspotting was just an excuse to crawl all over locos at depots, I did it for many years and visited a lot of places and people all over Europe so I dont regret it.

I am looking forward to TS2, whilst learning FSx SDKs for planes I find tedious, I'd willingly put up with the pain for train sim, sadly FSx does not generate enough of a desire to wade through the SDKs or learn the new techniques, but TS2 is a different mind set.

Best

Michael

Hi Michael,

I gather "foamers" are the American equivalent of the UK "Neds" or those who need a change of underwear if they get too close to their favourite locos. It was some of the more wierd brigade on what BR used to charmingly call a "Crankex" (railtour for enthusiasts - cranks excursion) behind a Deltic that put me off diesel railtours for life. Now steam excusrions are far more gentlemanly and pleasant. Just pricey.

As for anoraks - I expect they are very welcome when perched precariously on top of a crane at Felixtowe in a Suffolk winter gale.

I don't suppose you've got Ship Simulator have you? Or is it too much a busman's holiday?

markw wrote:Hi Michael,

I gather "foamers" are the American equivalent of the UK "Neds" or those who need a change of underwear if they get too close to their favourite locos. It was some of the more wierd brigade on what BR used to charmingly call a "Crankex" (railtour for enthusiasts - cranks excursion) behind a Deltic that put me off diesel railtours for life. Now steam excusrions are far more gentlemanly and pleasant. Just pricey.

As for anoraks - I expect they are very welcome when perched precariously on top of a crane at Felixtowe in a Suffolk winter gale.

I don't suppose you've got Ship Simulator have you? Or is it too much a busman's holiday?

I always thought a "ned" was a (Scottish) scally with burberry socks pulled up to the knees, a burberry baseball cap perched at a jaunty angle and a walk that suggests a large brick has been inserted into the anus, commonly known as a "chav" in England. Quite what this has to do with train spotters I've no idea... or has the word got a different meaning?

markw wrote:Hi Michael,

I gather "foamers" are the American equivalent of the UK "Neds" or those who need a change of underwear if they get too close to their favourite locos. It was some of the more wierd brigade on what BR used to charmingly call a "Crankex" (railtour for enthusiasts - cranks excursion) behind a Deltic that put me off diesel railtours for life. Now steam excusrions are far more gentlemanly and pleasant. Just pricey.

As for anoraks - I expect they are very welcome when perched precariously on top of a crane at Felixtowe in a Suffolk winter gale.

I don't suppose you've got Ship Simulator have you? Or is it too much a busman's holiday?

I once did a Belgium depot tour, a special train was hired and took us around Belgium to all the depots, beer and food supplied , your right the front was saved for the foamers, the more mature lets have a beer and laugh migrated to the middle of the train...nearer the bar !. Mind I didnt turn down my slot for the cab ride part, Nohab 567C loco, lots of memories of them.

Anoraks, well one advantage of being 250 feet up is you can see the weather approaching and a timely descent to avoid the worst is easy to do, I have to confess that I dont actually wear waterproofs and rarely warm weather gear, being half Scandinavian I dont feel the cold too much, but do suffer terribly above even a balmy 21 deg C.

I do have ship sim but it remains un opened as I found you cant model for it, being a modeler first and fore most that lock down put paid to even contenplaiting playing it.

Best

Michael