Meaning of 'Scenario Duration'

[Gazz292]

When i select a train to drive, i'm trying to chose one that will give me a nice long run, so i'm wondering how to interpret the train selection screen.

So below, the time is 18:42, the train selected started at it's origin point / station at 17:49, and it's showing 'Scenario Duration : -00:04'

Is this telling me i'd get 4 minutes worth of driving from choosing this train? (unfortunately for this service it was stuck at a red signal just outside a station and never moved again)

But sometimes i see 'Scenario Duration : -02:35' but mostly a duration of 00:37 or so.

[Bravura Lion]

That's a very good question, I've also wondered how to interpret this indicator.

[Loongeron]

21 minutes ago, Gazz292 said:

When i select a train to drive, i'm trying to chose one that will give me a nice long run, so i'm wondering how to interpret the train selection screen.

So below, the time is 18:42, the train selected started at it's origin point / station at 17:49, and it's showing 'Scenario Duration : -00:04'

Is this telling me i'd get 4 minutes worth of driving from choosing this train? (unfortunately for this service it was stuck at a red signal just outside a station and never moved again)

But sometimes i see 'Scenario Duration : -02:35' but mostly a duration of 00:37 or so.

Isn't that the significance of the lateness of this train?

[Gazz292]

Here's another that makes it even more confusing to me,

Again on the 'English Beginners Server'

Here the time is 19:20, yet this train is showing a departure time of 19:53, and a scenario duration of ~01:20 (i just noticed it's not a minus symbol but a 'Tilde' symbol "~" (meaning approximately) before the duration time)

[PapaCharlie]

According my Experience the scenario duration is the time left of the train till it reaches its end station/point on the route. 

Example: The EC trains running from Warsaw to Katowice need aaprox 1:40 h for the current whole route. So the moment the train spawns on the server the duration of the scenario says 1:40 h. If you, however, enter the train later, lets say as it passes Lacy, the duration will only be maybe 40 min or so because it already travelled one hour. 

If a train has a remaining time of 4 min and the departure time is hours in the past then you can safely assume that it is stuck somewhere. 

 

Rgds

[Gazz292]

2 minutes ago, Loongeron said:

Isn't that the significance of the lateness of this train?

I'm not sure,  i've been given trains that are running 10 or 15 minutes early, and ones running 10 minutes late.

[Gazz292]

I've just started the service in my last photo post, showing "Scenario Duration ~01:20"  and when i got to the next station (4 km away) i was 11 minutes early, with a 10 minute wait at the station, my departure time is 19:52 (14 minutes away as i type this)

[BigVern]

I'm pretty certain it's the estimated drive time left on that service.