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Oh yes, there is a keybind for wipers, i use it all the time now it rotates back to 'off' if pressed enough times (in the EU07/EP08 at least) But what i'm saying is, that most of the time i turn the wipers on to clear the bugs from the screen, to do this you need to use the washers to squirt water on the screen whilst the wipers are running, But there is no keybind for the washers... so i have to use the mouse to operate the washer button, but just a key press operates the wipers. I really wish all possible keybinds could be enabled, but need to be assigned in the controls.conf file, so it does not confuse people who only set things up in the SimRail menu for controls, Sorry for going OT... tho i kinda did that with my first answer, instead of picture in picture, suggesting using head tracking for the ultimate immersion and a way to see the controls without having to use the mouse.

Excel updated it's self the other day, and i've only just realised that the borders are made stupidly thick again when saving as PDF (this is something many excel users complain about, microsoft partially fix it with one update, then mess it up with the next), But basically this turned the 2 lines that separate the station box from the time box look like a single very thick line. As those lines signify if you are driving on a single or double track, i had to correct this, as it was making it look like the entire ~250km route was single track: So i had to mess about with the cells and the border styles on the timetables to make them show as they should again: A cell was deleted to do this, which changed the 'address' of the cells to it's right, and screwed up my 'print to PDF' button's logic which is hard coded in VBA, but once i figured out i just had to change cell 'T5 to S5' it all worked again. So... below is the corrected yet again timetables for the 14100 and 41100 services, hopefully i have them all displaying correctly now, and i can get on with making timetables for the other services. I am of course waiting for SimRail to introduce it's new timetables any day, hopefully it's mostly timing changes with a few new timetables thrown in, but i'll tackle that challenge when it arrives. 14100 and 41100 SimRail Timetables.zip

On my 'Timetables for e-ink kindles / kobo's (and tablets)' i use ;pt for the Olszamowice 'stop' which is a stop in the sidings by the passenger train you are driving, to let a faster train past you, Hence i've made them bold as the other stops are (;ph after them ... and ;ph,zd at the first and last station we get to drive between means 'stop for passengers' and 'crew change') But i've also made this stop italic to make it stand out that whilst it's a stop, it's not at a station... so you may miss it (some dispatchers forget this too and send you straight through even if you are running on time or early)

Get yourself a head tracking set up (my laptop's webcam has the Tobii eye tracker thing built in), SimRail has had TrackIr support from the beginning almost, i just use the 'almost free' program FaceTrackNoIr to translate my Tobii tracker signals to TrackIr signals, FaceTrackNoIr can use lots of different inputs, even some regular webcams. If you need to buy a webcam to use for head tracking, the sony PS3 eye camera is recommended by the FaceTrackNoIr people, and it can be bought for between £4 and £10! The FaceTrackNoIr software 'costs' €3.45 (it's a donation like thing to help the creators family out, as the writer of this software can't work much due to medical issues) so for between €3.45 and ~€10 you can have a head tracking set up that you will likely want to use on all your other driving games, as once you experience and get used to it you'll not want to go back to using the mouse to look around. Face / eye / head tracking is so much more immersive, it's like being in the real train cab, You just move your head and the view in the cab moves with it, want to look out the window at the scenery, just turn your head to the side a few degrees, need to look down at the controls, move your head down a little, change the radio channel?, look at the radio (to the left and down in the EU07) A common misconception for people who have never used head trackers before is that you have to move your head as much as in real life, therefore can't see the screen when you look out the side window etc, the movement is amplified (by how much you control and can set up) so you do not actually move your head 90 degrees to look sideways, maybe 10 degrees if that, so your eyes still look at the screen... it becomes second nature after a short time using it. I only touch my mouse to operate the buttons that do not have keybinds, and when i do that, i just look in the direction of the control i want to use (if it's out of the normal straight ahead view) and use the mouse as normal... just no need to drag the view around with the mouse first. (please please please dev's.... give us more keybinds, we can turn the wipers on and off by pressing a key, but 99% of the time we do this to clean the bugs off the screen, which needs the washer button pressing with the mouse)

i got things wrong... the switches now operate the left and right hand cab lights, didnt notice that as it was daytime and i didnt look directly above my head

I've fixed a few mistakes in the timetables, the new .zip file is here: ''Dammit, excel has updated it's self, and that changes the border thicknesses when saved as PDF, so the 2 lines that signify double tracks, or single line for single tracks is one large solid line... let me correct that and re-upload the timetables, sorry about this'' I've changed Olszamowice ;pn to ;pt, ;pn is a non passenger stop but i believe it means at a platform, ;pt is more of a timing stop, which is exactly what this one is for, you stop on the sidings to let a faster train past you when you are running on time (some dispatchers forget about this) I've also made the Olszamowice ;pt and it's times bold italic, i already show platform stops (;ph) in bold so they stand out from the other entries, which are drive by times, and this one is still a stop, just not at a platform. All the temporary speed limits are now italic in my timetables to distinguish them from the normal speed limits, i'm keeping the temporary limits in my timetables for the reasons i mention in the post above. i am working on making a simple little 'dodatek-2' like page which will be placed on my timetables page 2, under the train info panel i have there now (which shows train weight, length, type of loco etc) This will just show the few temporary speed limits that apply in the timetable, and will not be pages from the massive book with every temporary speed limit on the entire railway system that a real driver has to look through before taking the train out. : I've also been trying to make some 'how to read these timetables' sheets, there is just so much data in a driver's timetable. But i've really just made something hard to read with all these arrows and tons of text (a lot of info is based on CN-BX-3N's How to read a drivers timetable post. .. the timetable he shows is the type used before about 2012, and as SimRail is based in 2018 at the moment, i've gone with the more modern style of drivers timetable, they show pretty much the same info, just slightly different layouts) Click the pictures below to see a higher resolution version. 14100 and 41100 Timetables.zip

Noticed that in the EU07 and EP08 locos, the cab light switch no longer turns the cab lights on and off, The switch to the left of it 'overall lighting' i think it's called now operates the cab light, This means the keybind for the cab light is operating the 'cab light' switch but that switch does nothing now, so i can't flash my cab lights using the keybind to 'wave to other drivers' when i drive in the dark anymore 🙂

I guess essentially what i want is a way to drive with the HUD off, so for me, having something that looks like a paper drivers timetable similar to the real thing a Polish train driver uses, displayed on an e-ink device or a tablet, which allows me to not need to worry about missing any speed changes that the HUD would have told me about is the main goal. I think this has been achieved (albeit only for 2 services so far) I can certainly drive any of the ~3+hour long ~250+km 14100 / 41100 services with the HUD off, getting all the info i need about the route from my timetables for those services. Ok, i occasionally need to turn the HUD on to see the speed limit when i start getting 'speed limit violation' messages, and it's always because i forgot i had a 40km/h signal before i entered the station or something like that (my crap memory is part of the reason why i put the temporary limits in the timetables, as i'd forget the info the Dodatek-2 had told me if i read it 5 minutes ago, let alone 3 and a half hours after starting the service 🙂) : But i also know that some people want to have the timetables looking exactly like the real thing, maybe even printing them out on paper so they can drive in SimRail as if they were driving in real life, I 'think' it wouldn't be too hard for me to make the W9 and W14 limits in my timetables hidden in excel with a single button push, then create 2 versions of the pdf timetables, but maybe it would be easier to point those who want the ultimate 'driving the real thing' experience to Zapach Kreozotu's dynamic timetables As he's designed his to only display the line limits and not the temporary ones, as in real life. : So my timetables are then more for the 'intermediate' SimRail driver who has an old kindle or similar e-ink reader, or tablet that they can place next to the computer to display a timetable 'similar' to the real thing, that allows them to drive HUD'less without too much effort. : : Talking about kindles, i finally managed to load my timetables onto mine (a kindle basic 2 and a paperwhite, both ~6 inch screens) The timetables display quite well. annoyingly not full screen, but that's a kindle thing, it just has to have that thing at the bottom (67% here) telling you how far you are through your file showing all the damn time, so i guess maximising the info i can show on the screen is even more important, no way the train info panels to the right of the timetable could be shown as well (like Zapach Kreozotu's realistic timetables have) I also notice that the kindle is not like the kobo in how it shows what's loaded on it (might just be a feature of KOReader that i use on my Kobo, a simple drag and drop install on the Kobo, unfortunately to use it on a kindle requires jailbreaking / rooting it apparently 😫 ) On my kobo i see the individual folders i've put the timetables in: On the kindles they are mixed in with the books you have on it, sorted either alphabetically or by the date loaded etc, So to load the timetables onto the kindle, i connect it to the pc via usb, navigate to the kindle and find the 'documents' folder, there i make a new folder that i called 'SimRail Timetables' and load the timetables into that folder: So inside the 'Timetables' folder are the 2 folders with the actual timetables that i attach as a zip file to some of my posts, called 14100 and 41100 so far, and in each of those folders are the 24 individual pdf's named 14101.pdf. 14103.pdf and so on, this keeps the timetables separate from the books you have on the kindle, and makes it easy to load new timetables on as i make them or updated timetables when i spot things i've got wrong (like in the 41100 timetables i forgot to apply the time update function in excel to the 'Olszamowice' timing stop, it shows 03:39 instead of the timetables correct time .. say 19:39... so there will be a corrected timetable .zip file posted here soon to fix that) To find your timetable on a kindle, it's probably easiest to just use the search bar at the top and enter the service number for the train you are driving, the kindle it will find the relevant timetable for you to click on and open (which is why i named each individual timetable by it's service number .pdf) There is something you can do with filters to only show 'Documents' instead of books to chose the .pdf's manually, but really, search is quicker usually 🙂

So, i've been thinking, Should i make 2 versions of the timetables? One a semi realistic one with all speed limit changes listed as would be shown on the HUD in SimRail, i.e. what i have now, so you just look at the timetable and see where any speed restriction applies to you as if you had the HUD on. And then have a realistic version of the timetables with just the 'W27a' speed limits shown, I'd then include a simple 'dodatek-2' type page with the timetables, listing the W9 and W14 speed limits that apply to the route. i could show this list of W9 and W14 limits on the 2nd page of my timetable, which currently only shows the train info panel (max speed, weight, length, braking info) and it's then upto the driver to read and remember where those W9 and W14 speed limits apply in the main timetable (or flip back to page 2 to check when they are in the area of a W9 or W14 type limit) Then when i've made all timetables to cover the SimRail universe, i could then make a SimRail Dodatek-2 listing all the non track speed change limits, which could be referred to before loading the relevant timetable for the service you are running today for the ultimate realistic experience. .... Am i referring to this 'list of temporary speed limits addendum timetable' thing correctly here? i keep calling it the 'Dodatek-2' is that what it is called by real Polish train drivers?

it's certainly no easy task for sure, and it's way more work that i thought it would be to produce even the simple static timetables i am doing, i am learning new things every day tho, i'm just an english guy who has never actually been to Poland, i really wish i'd carried on back in 2006 when i was in the camper van i'd built and had driven as far as Frankfurt (oder). Most of what i have learnt about the Polish railway system is from SimRail, plus reading old official documents i find on google then machine translate. So i'm getting the station info stuff (R1, RT, H, SS, L1) from a 2020 timetable that covers the SimRail route from Warsawa Wschodnia to Katowice... BUT it's service 5406/7, which is an ED250 train doing the run, but it dosent stop at all the stations the EU07 trains do, so now i know that the station info changes depending on the direction, also the track being used? ;pt does seem to be the better one to use for that 'timing stop' at Olszamowice, i only spotted it should have an arrival and departure time when driving the route and being stopped to let the ED250 overtake me, i wonder if it having 'NoStopOver' is why dispatchers rarely stop me there.

ahh, that's something i decided to 'take artistic licence on' 🙂 i figured that whilst i want realism, having to spend 10+ minutes searching for and through the relevant appendix timetables for these W14 and W9 limits, then finding the ones that apply to all the lines our chosen service drives on.... then remembering where they apply along the route (which we likely have not learnt learnt fully like a real train driver does) ... and doing all this before taking over a train in multiplayer might be a little too realistic, I tried to put the temporary limits in italics to distinguish them from the normal ones tho', but the ones i have done so far are the ones that show up on RWag78's data and not on Uetam's speed limits, these are mostly the W14 ones i believe. I sort of figured that others may want what i want from a timetable, to be able to drive HUD'less, and be able to quickly glance at the timetable on the kindle / kobo / tablet, and see that 'at 292,800 Km, the current line speed of 120 km/h drops to 50 km/h for 100 meters' I could set the W9 and W14 limits to be hidden with a button in excel, and produce 2 versions of the timetables, but i'd then need to include the relevant sections from the 'Dodatek-2' ... but i only have one from the 2018 era that covers lines 1 and 4, not line 2.. which the 41100 / 14100 services run on: IDDE4-Dodatek-2-IZ-Sosnowiec-z-popr-1-od-10-VI-18.pdf

I still haven't tested these on my kindles i'm afraid (amazon issues following a hacking of my account with them) they do display just fine on my kobo clara HD, which has a similar size e-ink screen. and they display perfectly on android tablets which can scale .pdf files easily (no idea about i-pad thingies, i've never owned an apple product in my life (something amazon won't believe.. as it was an iphone that was used to order these womens 'beauty' products over and over again on my account) : Attached to this post are the timetables for services 14100 and 41100, that's the EU07/EP08 loco hauled services between Warszawa Wschodnia and Katowice, and vice versa. Inside the zip file are 2 folders, named 14100 and 41100, those folders contain 24 timetables each for the days services for each direction of the line, How i use them: i load transfer both folders onto my tablet / e-ink reader in a new folder i created on it called 'SimRail Timetables' Then when i drive a 41100 / 14100 service in SimRail i note it's service number.. say 41132 for the service that spawns just outside Katowice at ~17:41, i now open the 'SimRail Timetables' folder on my tablet / e-ink reader, select the 41100 folder, then either search for '41132' or look for it on the page of files listed for it (which should simply be the service number . pdf.... so '41132.pdf' Click it to open it, and i get the timetables front cover displayed. I've set my tablets / e-ink reader to display pdf's as single pages and at full screen, so i just click on the right side of the screen and it 'turns the page' so next i see the train info panel, this shows the trains weight, length, max speed, brake settings etc, click on the right again and i get the actual timetable shown, As i drive i keep referring to the timetable and getting my location on the line using the hectometer boards at the lineside (some parts of the SimRail line are missing them occasionally) adjusting my speed as the timetable tells me, stopping at the stations (marked in bold with ;ph after the station name, and 2 times in the box next to the station name) As i progress and i am reading the last entry on the page, as i pass the station / post for that entry i go to the next page, and carry on from the top again. : Please tell me of any errors i've made (i may have made a mistake with the 44100 services, do they stop at Olszamowice to let an ED250 past like they do on the 14100 services?) i will hopefully have a better description on how to use / read the timetables with some pictures for my next post here, If you want to see more timetables for services i haven't made yet, then check out this thread by Zapach Kreozotu, who has made an awesome automated online timetable generator, note they will not display well on a small e-ink display kobo / kindle, that is what my project is here for 🙂 Timetables 14100 and 41100.zip

Thankyou for updating the speed limit data. Is there any way to get a json of the data about the route a service runs in SimRail?, with the standard and temporary speed limits and their kilometerage shown that apply just to that route (station stops would be the icing on the cake) Sort of the data that's used when you actually drive the route in SimRail, that tells the sim how far your train is from the next speed change / station etc. Or is that kind of thing saved for the official SimRail drivers timetables? For my e-ink kindle based timetables i've been working on, I've used a mix of your speed limit data, RWag78's data from driving the routes, DeadlyKungFu.Ninja's EDR data, and a 2020 drivers timetable from an ED250 running part of its route on line 1, 2 and 4 as in SimRail, I tried using a 2018 appendix 2 / temporary speed limit timetable found by hours of googling, but it only coveres a small part of the route and is very hard to understand i found. So i've come up with this frankenstein data set, but it's prone to errors being mostly filled in by me.

Just a little thing... on the 14100 services (and possibly the 41100 services too?), there's a 'stop' at Olszamowice to let an ED250 past you, i think it should also have something after it's station / post name to show this is a timing stop and not a stop for passengers to get on and off. I 'think' it should be ;pn ? 'Non-trade stop - just for the needs of the railway undertaking'? From the 'zal_6.3_Reg22_23_v8_EN' on the PKP site it shows: PH – trade stop (->PH) only for getting on, (PH->) only for getting off; ZD – change of traction team; PN – non-trade stop; PM – manoeuvre works within station; ZP – stop for railway workers; So this is how i show it in my timetable for this service:

well, that's my little project of making timetables blown out of the water 😵😄 This is awesome work here, i wish i could have helped on your project but i don't know any programming stuff, For the past few weeks i've been trying to learn excel to make my version of the timetables, and my brain is overloaded with excel formulas for stuff like converting seconds to decimal minutes (with the hope that SimRails timetables will become more realistic and have departure times to the second as it is in real life, rather than whole minutes, So say a departure at 21:30:42, that would be displayed on a timetable as 21:307 (that 7 should be half way above the 0, but i can't do superscript on here, it's showing 0.7 decimal minutes, which is 6 seconds per decimal minute) I even struggle with nesting formulas in excel, but none of this comes close to making timetables up on the fly like you have done 👍 : I notice the station info in the screenshot above, nothing goes past 'H'? is this how it was in 2018? i.e. for Warszawa Wschodnia station, i have 'R2, R1, R6, R307, RT, H, SS' some stations have 'PP' instead of 'SS' some have 'L1' they all show things like track interlocking, is ETCS is present or not and so on, and someone told me that's how you tell things like if the signal you pass on a Sz aspect is a 40 or 20km/h limit.

I really don't think an early access title is right for you IKB, you can't seem to grasp the concept of early access meaning there will be bugs, issues, new problems that will be discovered, But they will be worked on, and when a fix is found bug fixes will be released, as well as more features added along the way, and if it takes longer than a single week to fix something, then that weeks update may be delayed. That's why you paid about what a single tsw DLC costs (that gets you ~20 miles of track and a single train) for Simrail. If SimRail was like dtg, then there would be an update on the day mentioned... would that keep you happy? No of course not, because that rushed release would be half assed and break more things than it fixes. Then all current issues would get ignored as they'd be too busy working on the next DLC that rewrites history, because they'd be more worried about offending someone with a 2022 mindset than showing what life really was like in the 1960's. Or they'd be claiming to be fixing issues with the core game that have been there for almost 2 years.... but really they are working on SimRail 2... along with a cringy faked 'leak' and then livestream's full of back slapping and bigging themselves up about their 'achievements', meanwhile in the real world people notice that SimRail 2 is pretty much the same as SimRail 1, it's just had a couple of 'features' added that people have been using all along with simple mod files (a drag and drop 'install' for the most part) and they are just charging us over again for the same content. Thankfully SimRail is not like tsw or that fishing simulator of theirs that has the same sales method: Release the same game every 2 years, release lots of DLC between the main game releases, ignore bug reports / feature requests and milk the customer for every penny they have. But you need to face facts, single player save is likely not coming, and the sim is in early access, Get over that and you might actually enjoy driving the trains or operating the signal boxes, on the multiplayer side no 2 runs are the same, last night i was held for 20 minutes at a stuck signal before being routed over the left hand track for ~10Km, then i had to wait whilst the trains from the other direction were routed around me before i could cross over back to the right hand track, As a result i was 20 minutes late after this, by the end of the run i was about 7 minutes late and i had a big smile on my face for an enjoyable totally unscripted drive.

Here's a days worth of 14100 timetables, Just unzip, and inside the 14100 folder should be 24 timetables in pdf format, one for each of the services throughout the day from service / timetable 14101 to 14147. i like to simply transfer the whole 14100 folder to my kobo e-ink reader, then select that folder and open the individual .pdf that i need for the service i am driving (or search for the service number and it'll find the timetable for you) I haven't tested these on a kindle yet, but i have loaded them onto a couple of different sized android tablets, and they display just fine on the built in pdf readers. I like to set the 'read direction' to left to right pages and full screen, then just swipe right to left go to the next page as you reach the bottom of the timetable during your drive in SimRail. Of course, if you don't have time to drive the entire service (3 hours 42 minutes) you just pick one off the earlier services which are already part way through their trip (showing less time to completion) and find the correct place in the timetable by reading the hectometer boards when you spawn into the train) <added on 06/03/23 : 02:10> i've changed the position of one speed limit on line 4, the SimRail speed limit data says it's at 214.157, but it is actually right after the 214.9 hectometer board before the bridge. I've also made the temporary limits in this timetable italic to distinguish them from normal speed limits (included the 40km/h limit at Katowice station signed with a W9 board. So a new zip file has been uploaded containing a new set of the days timetables with these corrections, same name, so delete the old one then download this one (or re-name it) i'll make a simple 'how to read a Polish drivers timetable' chart up tomorrow, as it can look daunting at first, especially how it looks wrong in places where the speed limit change kilometres are shown with distances after a station / post kilometers... like: Strzałki is at 57.381Km, but the 160 speed reduction is at 78.487Km... you'd expect the speed reduction to be placed after this station / post entry, but real Polish drivers timetables are like this in many places, i believe it's to do with the room needed for the speed limit changes Vs the station / post entries, But you get used to scanning the timetable for things like this. 14100.zip

has anything been changed on how you 'earn' your grading to work the more complicated boxes? When early access was first released, you just needed to have run the sim for x amount of hours in dispatcher mode, so some people would go on an empty server and take control of a signal box, then ignore everything, They would be off playing another game or something, whilst the sim racked up their hours until they got enough hours recorded to operate the harder signal boxes. It could be amazing to have a kind of exam you take to earn your next higher grade / promotion and move to operate the harder signal boxes, I may be taking things too far into the realism thing now tho, but SimRail is way above the other train driving games because of its approach to realistic operations i think.

At least back with the old semaphore signals the signaller could shake the signal by moving the lever back and forth, that usually woke a dozing driver up... flashing a signal light on and off just doesn't have the same effect i imagine 😄

the extra features on the Passenger Information Screens is all planned for the future of SimRail, i've seen screen shots showing a next train screen at a station that i think Ai passengers will use, I don't think a free walk mode will be implemented... i hope it isnt, as i don't want people walking along the tracks in the middle of nowhere and jumping Infront of my train, plus that would mean extra slots on the servers taken up by people who just want to walk about the map, when this is a driving and signalling simulator... and the map really isnt designed to walk anywhere you want, it's designed to show nicely to you from the cab of your train / signal box, but try and use the underpasses when waiting at a station and you find most of them are dead ends. But this is a subject that splits people, i'm in the 'keep it as a driving and signalling sim' others want to turn it into a 'the sims' style game, and other want things found in other games brought in here, just because the other 'game' has it.

yep the SG button is what i was on about, But SimRail ATM is set in Poland in 2018, GSMR is available in a few places, but they still use the old analog radios, the ZEW1 and ZEW3 buttons send a tone when pressed, ZEW1's tone is to alert drivers, ZEW3 is to alert dispatchers, but afaik on SimRail these tones are not heard over other peoples radios... like the radio stop button only affects your own train (but thats deliberate as people could troll it by joining a server, pressing the radio stop to stop all trains in range, then move to the next server and do the same)

i think things like this have been suggested before, but the problem is the queue system would then become the 'who clicks first wins' part instead, And it would need something to stop people constantly clicking to take up all the spaces for their favourite dispatcher post. Maybe some form of limitation to how many times you can operate a particular dispatchers post per day per server thing needs to be thought about? Or timeouts, your first post of the day you get straight into the dispatcher post, second time you have a x second delay when the servers restart which allows someone else the chance to get that post for their first time, third time you try to get on the same post it's a longer delay or something. of course the rich kids will abuse this kind of system by having multiple steam accounts and copies of SimRail just to hog their favourite dispatchers post on their favourite server. I know that usually people want their favourite dispatchers post but only on their favourite server, so the popular servers are full all the time, but there's other servers with just one or 2 drivers in it during the day, and no one in the dispatchers posts, Right now: EN1 has 13/16 dispatchers. EN3 has 3/16 dispatchers. EN6 has 0/16 dispatchers. EN8 has 1/16 dispatchers. EN9 has 2/16 dispatchers. So for the english servers, everyone wants EN1 all the time, obviously because they want live drivers to interact with instead of AI trains?

Maybe 5 minutes is too long? The uk had 'Rule 55' which was something like, if you are held at a red signal for more than 2 minutes, you are to contact the signaller to be sure (s)he knows about your train (before radios and signalpost telephones, you'd send usually your fireman or the guard to the signal box) Now this rule was more to prevent the signaller forgetting about your train and sending another one into the back of it, but there had been cases where the signaller was found asleep due to the signal box being a remote one with very little traffic. I read that the modern UK railway has a revised rule 55, now it's often enacted via a button on the in cab radio to press that sends a 'train standing at signal' message to the signal box. In SimRail, when i am held at a red signal, i'd press the ZEW3 button on the radio after about a minute, but i don't think this does anything to non Ai signal boxes (does it do anything in MP at all?) Then i may send a message asking if the dispatcher knows i'm waiting at a signal (last night was the first time ever i managed to use the SimRail radio for voice properly, i've always had issues with voice based coms in real life) Anyway, if this 'train standing at signal' text message was a pre-selected message, then it could maybe ring the dispatchers phone, or sound the ZEW3 tone on the radio, then pop up a message box on the dispatchers screens, to which they have to respond to within 30 - 45 seconds, if no response a 15 second countdown timer starts, which switches back to Ai control of the box?

I'm not the only person trying to go totally HUD'less when i drive in SimRail, and to do this we need to know the time to the second so we can know when to leave a station, or just to keep to the timetable between stations / posts etc, I have the time displayed on a digital clock widget (which shows seconds) on one of the tablets i have mounted next to my laptops screen for this purpose: You can probably see the other blue bar is a world clock widget i've set up to cycle through the server times, but that doesn't show seconds and it takes my brain a while to compute the actual server time with this method... plus waiting for the server i'm running on to show up as i have 8 server time zones, but it can only show them on 4 rows, so they cycle up by one every 5 seconds.... the digital clock widget on the left is a separate widget that does not show world times, it's hard to find a world time clock that shows seconds i found) But one of the 'issues' with using a clock on a tablet / phone is it will not be in sync with the SimRail server times, ok it will usually only be out by upto 5 seconds, but then you need to remember the time difference and leave ~5 seconds later than the timetable says to avoid getting a 'early departure' penalty thing. So i was thinking that it would be nice to have the time displayed as a widget on a phone / tablet that is synced to the SimRail server time that you are driving on, could possibly be used as a watch face thing for those who use those smart watches too? Sometimes when it's night time here and i want to drive a train during the day, i will go on the Australian server which is 11 hours ahead of UTC, so my clock widget is off by +11 hours (and 5 seconds 🙂 I know i could change the timezone, but that is a pain in the ass to keep doing, as it will also change reminders i have set throughout the day to take my medication etc. So i was wondering if someone who knows how to make an android widget had thought about making a 'SimRail server time clock' A digital clock with seconds that syncs to the SimRail server time you are driving on (a decimal minutes option would be awesome, but maybe pushing things?... but i mention this as drivers timetables don't show departure at say 21:52:42, they show: That 7 is 42 seconds in decimal minutes. I imagine you'd first need to tell the SimRail clock widget the server you are on, then it occasionally pings that server to sync the times up... or maybe it can ping your username like the live map does when you set it to track you, and automatically get the server time you are driving on but only when you are driving... so reducing the load on the servers when you are not driving (TBH i'd think a single ping when you start driving would get the server time and then it'd keep in sync normally?.. sorry if i'm using ping inappropriately, you can tell programming is not my thing) And i mention an android widget, as those can be placed where you like on a phone, tablet etc, like in my first picture i have a remote system monitor showing on that tablet most of the time, monitoring my laptops performance and temps, so i just added a clock widget that shows seconds to it's dashboard, but i could set it as a floating always on top widget if i wanted to.

i've been having a go at making drivers timetables, and the one i worked on first is the 14100 services, those nearly 4 hour long drives from one end of the line to the other in an EU07 / EP08, I have a real driver's timetable from 2020 covering the route used in SimRail (but with an ED250, so it runs a bit faster than the EU07 service does) but there are stations where you have ~20 seconds dwell time, and others where you have many minutes of dwell time... and of course if you arrive early, you'll be waiting a lot longer for your scheduled departure time. There's even a bit in the EU07's timetable at Olszamowice, which is not a station but a place you can be parked in the sidings to let a faster train past you, if you arrive there on time you have a 4 minute 'layover'... i'm often a couple of minutes early there, so i'm held for 6+ minutes there, this is normal and realistic, i'm a 5 digit service, and the 4 digit services take priority over me... the 6 digit freights can be held for almost half an hour at places (with Polish railway services, the shorter the service number the higher priority you have) Notice below, the station after that 'timing point' at Olszamowice.... a 7 minute dwell time, again from what i can find out that's realistic,