Paper timetables

[Nathcraft]

It would be cool to have the paper version of the train timetable on the stand made for this in the cab:

[jomardi972]

👍

Yes, for no HUD players, that is very important.

[Kaito Kid]

On 12/15/2022 at 9:59 AM, Nathcraft said:

It would be cool to have the paper version of the train timetable on the stand made for this in the cab:

Maybe some .pdf documents on another monitor/tablet/telephone.

[lDestinyl]

On 12/15/2022 at 9:59 AM, Nathcraft said:

It would be cool to have the paper version of the train timetable on the stand made for this in the cab:

In the Czech Republic, tablets with current position are also used. ideal for driving without HUD.

[SurvivorSean]

I think paper is cool, but the HUD is much easier to read.  Perhaps both with the ability to turn it off like we have now.

Thanks

Sean

[Gazz292]

i think the HUD timetable is okay... gives you the absolute basics,

but a paper schedule will give you more info like speed restrictions and where they change based on the hectometer boards that are along the route,

Having the ability to show a PDF of your schedule on a 2nd monitor, a phone or a tablet would be even better, clears the main screen thats showing the view out the cab windscreen and adds to immersion greatly, especially if you drive with a raildriver or other controller instead of the keyboard / mouse.

and on the modern trains the polish equivalent of an EBuLa screen... if that can be made to work like TS-MDF* does with train simulator, it'd be amazing (you use tablets or extra monitors to display working versions of the EBuLa and MFD screens from the trains dashboard.. as SimRail will have a SDK, hopefully stuff like that can be made)

 

*https://www.ts-mfd.de/

[robert357 - W7 FTW]

Well, in Poland there are few electronic timetables (ENTE, Aksel and maybe some more) but unfortunately none of them are used in locomotives that will be in game.

[debiantippse]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb robert357:

 none of them are used in locomotives that will be in game.

Thats right to some extend, the BR 186(with poland kit) actually has/was equipped with Aksel as a option besides the EBuLa(Elektronischer Buchfahrplan und Verzeichnis der Langsamfahrstellen). The big black box thats currently showing nothing but just a blackscreen, would be nice if it would work in the Release at some point.

[Gazz292]

7 hours ago, debiantippse said:

The big black box thats currently showing nothing but just a blackscreen,

wow, must be like driving a real life train from tsw with half the screens not showing anything 🥸

[Schyrsivochter]

As far as I know, Germany is sort of the odd one out with the EBuLa electronic timetable display being a de facto standard and widely used (even though it never made good on the promise in its original name to integrate the La, the list of temporary speed restrictions and similar notices). Many other countries at most issue working timetables as PDFs on tablets or phones. Or maybe they have a few different cab-integrated solutions that apparently aren’t widely adopted …

[hermaneg]

The Old trainz title PTP2 has also scripted Ebula, Zusi3 uses TCP protocol for different display information.

[Gazz292]

what i'm really hoping is that SimRail will be like Zusi and train simulator (classic) {and Omsi} and allow access to the trains information and certain data,
So people can write programs that can read that data and allow things like working EBuLa's on tablets/ 2nd monitors, or to populate a paper timetable / drivers schedule as a PDF / excel file that can be printed out or displayed on a tablet / monitor / phone.

Then we could also operate working gauges and warning lights on a drivers desk, for those of us who would like to build a driving controller that mimics the cab controls in the train.

[debiantippse]

vor 12 Stunden schrieb Schyrsivochter:

As far as I know, Germany is sort of the odd one out with the EBuLa electronic timetable display being a de facto standard and widely used (even though it never made good on the promise in its original name to integrate the La, the list of temporary speed restrictions and similar notices).

We have tried intigrating La's also in our EBuLa but the Hardware that sits behind the screen was never good enough for displaying also the La's but thats changed with the new models who are running Windows 10 iOT apperently but besides that we have for cargo a web app called 'FRED' that's not only used for tracking trains but also for downloading 'Tagesaktuelle Langsamfahrstellen' 🤠 but saddly i cannot get into it too detailed because of my companys rules and restrctions(actually working for DB AG)