Little Green Arrow

[TheTazman]

With the JT Voyager Add-on there was a nice little green icon on the display a the bottom which tells you where to stop your train. A neat little feature if your train is of a certain length. Yes there is also the station stop boards but these cant always be seen until maybe a bit to late at times. I would like to see that green arrow used in more trains and scenarios so you get a clear indication of where the train should be stopped. I have only seen the icon appear just in a few times in past JT scenarios and not much more if any than that. I think this should be used more often to help us stop where we should.

Regards

Simon

[gptech]

I'm guessing here, but that may well be a scenario specific 'stopping point' marker.

[749006]

Most times you drive the train and stop at the Marker Board - and having driven a route a few times you get to know where they are on the platform.
If you are not spotting them until the last minute the maybe you are approaching the station too fast?

Either that or just stop short of the ramp.

[spellow3010]

Or it may be that the route builder didn't factor car stop boards and their visibility/sighting as an issue. Whilst in the real world, car-stop boards are sighted by a committee to provide optimum sighting for a driver to position their train, we must also acknowledge that not every train operator running over a route actually enforces their use...

I'm part of a signal sighting committee for the LNW South area and recent work with our TOC colleagues at Stafford to sight new car stop boards was quite interesting. Virgin Trains will aim to plant their Pendolinos at the 9/11 car stop board for obvious reasons of train length, train despatch visibility on slightly curved platforms and ensuring that their whole train is within the limits of the signals at each end of the platform. This is enforced and drivers assessed by that TOC.

London Midland however do not enforce their drivers stopping at the car stop board - as exampled at Stafford where you will find the drivers of their Crewe to Euston services stopping with their driving cab immediately opposite the toilet facilities at Platform 1 south and not at the 4/5 car (caters for Voyagers) stop board. LM drivers seem to position their train to cater for inclement weather, and for the natural 'long stop' at Stafford enabling them to go and use the loo as required.

Different strokes for different folks.

The premise of this is, I don't really look out for the car stop boards in the game any more - but I do aim to plant as much of my train in the green line area on the HUD as the priority if it's a long train, with consideration then for how much of the train can be under a canopy for passenger comfort, access to the exit/footbridge etc. To be fair, that doesn't always marry up with the actual position of car stop boards.

Of course, this becomes more relevant to me if the scenario involves attaching/detaching or in station environments where permissive working is likely to be required. To me that changes the priority again of what to focus on.

All good fun.