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Zabkowice now has all dispatcher posts with open windows, weren't these curtained before?

It happened to me few times for only a short time, not for long though. Upon spawning into world in a domino station, the panel is completely "off" without any of the elements lit. The left UI panel with nearby trains was empty and showed 12:00 on clock. After 10-15 seconds the domino panel lit into normal state and the clock in UI synced to real value. Maybe there is a missing handler for some specific sort of packet loss when initializing the instance for player. Perhaps related to a different bug where user profile is incorrectly synced and shows player level 0 and no progress in game until client restart, I believe they happened to me simultaneously.

Generally signals are placed around 1000-1200 meters between each other. If the distance is greater than 2 km, such signal should have its own separated distant signal again around 1000 meters ahead. The signals that are placed in the regular 1 km interval are generally the automatic block signals, they have three lamps and white mast (pole). Classic main signals where the distance is more varying have red and white masts and they are pre-signalled by another main signal, by standalone distant signal (the one with large X in square desk), or by last post of automatic block (still white mast, but with additional desk with black-and-white circular "target" sign under the lamps). If the distance is insufficient for braking, usually you are signalled as such in advance – in automatic block, the post before one showing caution is showing advance caution (flashing green), when in stations with multiple main signals in less than 1 km, you should be slowed to 40 km/h by the last passable signal. I think it happened to me once that i got red in like 500 meters (emergency brake still worked with few dozen meters to spare), but that might have been a dispatcher revoking the signal. Otherwise I drive without HUD quite okay-ish, speeds are worse (they are also announced rather consistently in advance, but sometimes with really tiny signs).

I asked you three or four times in chat if you are ready but you never responded, and I can't just block the whole station with a train path if you are afk 🙁

I usually take them to siding by default, but if they ask for a go, I will try to find them a slot. Usually the layovers are there for a good reason though. While Będzin can send the 644xxx easily whenever, in SG you basically have only two slots in an hour where you can let the long slow train block you the whole head for five minutes without slowing passenger trains. Zawiercie is similar.

Sosnowiec Południowy is shown on the map as bot-controlled playable station since today's restart, so probably soon™ 🙂