London Faversham Can't pickup passengers.

[freewarescenarios]

Has anyone come across the following problem before when making Scenarios for this route?

I have two scenarios that are causing me problems. The first is a scenario from London to Faversham using a 6-car 395, all works fine until Gillingham P3. On arrival you stop at the correct place in the platform, the HUD indicates Gillingham P3 is the next stop, you press T and the doors open, unfortunately the HUD does not recognise you are in the platform and therefore you are unable to continue the journey as you ''havn't pickup up passengers from Gillingham'

Second Scenario i was trying to turn a train round at Ebbsfleet due to a Power Failure between there and Stratford. I route the train into Platform 6 and i get the same problem as above but this time the doors won't even open.

What i've tried

Shunting backwards and forwards up and down the platforms.
Removing the instruction and re-inputting it.
Changing Ebbsfleet from P6 to P5 (I'm aware P6 is the down platform but it is bi-directional so that should not matter,

None of the above have worked, i have sent an email to RSC who originally accused me of not knowing how to add 'pick up passenger' instructions and sent me links to manuals (even though i said all other stations work fine) They then sent me links to tutorials on how to pick up passengers.

As far as i can see the instructions have been set up correct. I must have done this instruction for 3 to 400 stations on various routes and scenarios before so i am confident its not that.

Any suggestions?

Chris.

[trainsmit]

I have experienced this phenomenon on München-Augsburg, with some of the outer tracks at München Hbf.

First, I thought it was a position problem, because the trains was parked too far from the platform signal. So I pulled up and backed down a few time - even delayed departure to have time for this, but to no avail. In the end, I think I had the train depart from another platform. I do not know what is happening in this case, but the descriptions are similar, so a common cause might exist.

As for suggestions: based on what I have seen I would speculate, that one of two - possibly three - exists. It could IMHO be either or a maybe a combination.

a) a structure problem of the route(s), at a particular platform track. Must test if it will affect any scnenarios at that track.
b) it could be a scenario problem, which by coincidence affects this track/train. Is prb reproducably in any scenario and scenario type or can a similarity - the same type of mistake - in both routes.
c) a limitation of the sim itself - possibly due to exhaustion of some unknown and limited resource in loading the route or scenario. No clue.

Most likely, I simply gave up and removed that passenger pickup instruction or changed the track. It is my impression, that advanced technical in today competitive market is a financial impossibility. So for nieche products, like train simulators, it may be difficult to justify the cost in the business model. You did at least receive a response, be sure to send them some appreciation of their effort, even if they were not able to solve the problem Usuaally in that situation a community like this can be of some assistance.

[freewarescenarios]

Some interesting thoughts. I'm going to remove the effective trains and place them back in the scenario and see if that fixes it.

[freewarescenarios]

It seems removing the train and placing it in again has solved the problem.

[RudolfJan]

I have the same problem on WLOS New Galloway platform 2 witht the 2MT. Made a ticket for RS.

[Carinthia]

I have the same problem on WLOS New Galloway platform 2 witht the 2MT. Made a ticket for RS.

New Galloway station is partly on straight track and partly on a curve. The platform is actually constructed in three sections to cope with that. You will need part of the train in the forward-most section to load/unload passengers.

I can't speak for London-Faversham as I don't have that route but from the discussion I don't think this is the issue.

John