Shunting into Radstock Yard

[PWHolmes]

Re "Delivering the Goods" scenario, how do you change the points into Radstock yard?

I have uncoupled the front 4 wagons and pulled forward into the platform but the points stay set for the main and there is no blue circle on the F9 screen. Shift-G does nowt either.

I have been shunting up and down the platform for aged..... stuck fast.

Paul

[dorlan]

Re "Delivering the Goods" scenario, how do you change the points into Radstock yard?

I have uncoupled the front 4 wagons and pulled forward into the platform but the points stay set for the main and there is no blue circle on the F9 screen. Shift-G does nowt either.

I have been shunting up and down the platform for aged..... stuck fast.

Paul

Funny you should say that, I've just spent ten minutes trying to do the same thing!

[dorlan]

Found the answer, I hope!...

Go slow into Radstock, Glide over a crossover and stop a little past a signal (don't go as far as the platform) to register your arrival at the down reception. Then uncouple as directed and move up into the platform and reverse into the sidings.

You do not have to switch the points by the platform, but you must switch the next set using the lever, the remainder are OK for siding 9. NB the well done message comes up if you don't throw the points properly and go into the wrong sidings:)

Uncouple the wagons, which triggers the next message. Run forwards into the platform again, NB the message comes up early. The points are already set for you, reverse back, couple up using shift-ctrl-c, and set off to Evercreech Junction 2.

[dorlan]

Oh dear, that didn't work. Back to the drawing board, or in my case, back to Bath and start all over again, for the umpteenth time today!

[PWHolmes]

I should have said that I found that earlier read it and followed it to the letter - it didn't work for me either.

[Cobradane]

Evening folks,

I've just driven this route and found that:-

1. You need to pull up quite close to the station starter signal to get the points to change to reverse into the sidings.

2. Once you've uncoupled the wagons and moved forward into the station you again need to stop close to the starter signal
BUT the points only seem to change if you go into the 2d map in view 9 after you have stopped.

I'm now on my way to Evercreech.

Hope this helps.


Keith

[dorlan]

Eventuallly got to Evercreech and promptly crashed back to the desktop!

[PWHolmes]

Keith,

pulled up to the starter signal - points stayed set for main
went past the starter - ditto....

how can you tell when they have reversed? Do you have to start setting back??

Paul

[Cobradane]

Paul,

If you pull up to the starter signal and stop, then go into the 2D map (key 9) you should see that your route (the blue line) has changed to the sidings.

You will need to manually change some points to get into the right siding.

You should get a message when you uncouple the wagons in the right siding.

When you go forwards again onto the main line stop as before near to the starter signal and again go into the 2D map, this should show that the route has changed again onto the main line.

You should now be able to connect to the rest of your train and proceed onto Evercreech.


Hope this is of some use to you.

Regards.

Keith

[PWHolmes]

Keith.

I did just as you said but the blue line refused to shift from the main....

....I'll try again.

Paul

[PWHolmes]

Tried again - starting from Bath.

Uncoupled first 4 wagons on the main, pulled into the platform, stopped, point didn't reverse, pulled forward to near the peg, stopped, ditto, pulled up right to the peg, stopped, ditto, put loco past peg (now red), stopped, ditto, put loco and 4 wagons past the peg, stopped, ditto, went into next section, stopped, ditto again.

Looks like that point is stuck fast to me, I cant get the thing to shift itself.

[dorlan]

I'm almost sure that you have to change the point to get into the siding. I had the same sort of hassle reversing back at Bath!
The point changes itself when you return to the main line, after dropping off the wagons.

[Cobradane]

Hi Paul,

When you stopped on the main line at Radstock Down Reception to uncouple the wagons did you receive a wait time in the HUD ?

It will show up in the destination tab of the HUD. You will have to stop at 0.1 or 0.0 for this to work.

Once the waiting time has elapsed then the destination should change from Radstock Down Reception to Radstock Gate 04.

Then you can go forward again into the station, the destination will still be Radstock Gate04. The points should then reset to the yard and you can manually change the points to get into siding 09. A message should appear when you cross from the main to the siding and the destination changes to Radstock Siding 09

If you check in the Destination / Task information in the Assingment Assistant on the second icon onthe fly out at the bottom of the screen it will tell you if you completed these stops. I would presume that if you don't get these messages then the route does not reset to go into the sidings once you have stopped in the station, and again when you have completed the shunt to reset the points to the main line so that you can connect to your remaining wagons again.



Hope this helps.

Regards

Keith

[AdamsRadial]

Cobradane wrote

I would presume that if you don't get these messages then the route does not reset to go into the sidings once you have stopped in the station,

This is what I learnt on that activity, and on the running on empty one. It is critical to watch for the green progress bar, and you don't get it until you have actually stopped for several seconds. As you also said, it is vital to look at the next destination, because very often there are intermediate stops that you have to make.

I completed all the S&D activities using simple controls, so when I read the earlier posts in this thread suggesting my advice wasn't working my first thoughts were that using a different control mode changes things. So far, looking at Pigeon run and running on empty, my notes are still correct.

It's actually a lot better driving on intermediate settings. There's certainly more of a sense of having a train weight behind you than MSTS ever gave.

[lwaxl00]

I had the same trouble and when I looked at the next destination it was still showing radstock down reception. So I reversed and recoupled/uncoupled again and I got the next desti come up and the usual well done message. After that pulled forward, the point changed and the shunt signal came off.

Alan L