Mike Smith
2003-12-26 00:31:53 UTC
Looks interesting but I haven't tried it yet (a friend with broadband is
downloading it for me)
http://www.simsig.co.uk/
SimSig is a signalling simulation of Railtrack's Integrated Electronic
Control Centres (IECCs). It puts you in the signaller's chair and lets you
set the routes, deal with problems, etc.
It accurately simulates interlockings, specifically Solid State
Interlockings (SSIs), which is the main new interlocking technology in
Britain today. Even overlaps (never before seen on products already on the
market), swinging overlaps, approach locking, approach control,
time-of-operation point locking, shunt routes, warner routes, call-on
routes, they are all in SimSig!
The Train Describer (TD) is the only real way signalmen identify trains on
the screen (rather like flight numbers). So interposes, cancels, normal
steps, ripple steps, shuttle steps, are all in SimSig!
Of course, one of the real benefits of IECCs (and some NX panels too) is the
Automatic Routesetting System (ARS). This relieves the signaller of a lot of
his work. In SimSig a simple version of ARS is provided because YOU are the
one meant to be setting routes! The idea of ARS in SimSig is to let ARS do
the areas you are not interested in, leaving the interesting parts to
yourself. As a signalman at Ashford IECC once told me, 'we like to control
the major station areas but let ARS do the simple junctions'.
Between the ARS and the TD, they perform Automatic Code Insertion (ACI) when
a train reaches its destination. This is based on timetable information
(transmitted from the TimeTable Processor (TTP) in a real IECC). And, of
course, you can edit your own timetables right from within SimSig! The
timetable editor is built in and does not cost any extra.
Train motion is accurately simulated, using braking and acceleration
profiles, maximum speeds, differential line speeds, station stops, etc.
Trains can also be timetabled to join or divide, run-round, etc.
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downloading it for me)
http://www.simsig.co.uk/
SimSig is a signalling simulation of Railtrack's Integrated Electronic
Control Centres (IECCs). It puts you in the signaller's chair and lets you
set the routes, deal with problems, etc.
It accurately simulates interlockings, specifically Solid State
Interlockings (SSIs), which is the main new interlocking technology in
Britain today. Even overlaps (never before seen on products already on the
market), swinging overlaps, approach locking, approach control,
time-of-operation point locking, shunt routes, warner routes, call-on
routes, they are all in SimSig!
The Train Describer (TD) is the only real way signalmen identify trains on
the screen (rather like flight numbers). So interposes, cancels, normal
steps, ripple steps, shuttle steps, are all in SimSig!
Of course, one of the real benefits of IECCs (and some NX panels too) is the
Automatic Routesetting System (ARS). This relieves the signaller of a lot of
his work. In SimSig a simple version of ARS is provided because YOU are the
one meant to be setting routes! The idea of ARS in SimSig is to let ARS do
the areas you are not interested in, leaving the interesting parts to
yourself. As a signalman at Ashford IECC once told me, 'we like to control
the major station areas but let ARS do the simple junctions'.
Between the ARS and the TD, they perform Automatic Code Insertion (ACI) when
a train reaches its destination. This is based on timetable information
(transmitted from the TimeTable Processor (TTP) in a real IECC). And, of
course, you can edit your own timetables right from within SimSig! The
timetable editor is built in and does not cost any extra.
Train motion is accurately simulated, using braking and acceleration
profiles, maximum speeds, differential line speeds, station stops, etc.
Trains can also be timetabled to join or divide, run-round, etc.
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