Church Bells may ring......

[bootednancy]

Greetings:
I have started running Stanley Brown's new activity, the 10:00 Manchester to Sheffield with a train of MK-1s and a 76 EM-1 on the Woodhead v4.3 route.

Great activity for the semi modern era of a route I never got to see before closure. Activity is going very well, EXCEPT almost every 10 to 15 seconds there is this ANNOYING alarm bell that keeps going off in the engine, even if I do nothing.

I have the ALERTER function unchecked on the Options page for the program, BUT IT STILL KEEPS GOING OFF.

How do I get rid of this wretched annoying sound, is it part of the route or in the engine file???

Thanks for the help and solution..........("Church Bells may ring" was the title of a 1950's rock & roll song in the USA)
Doug

[scampispeedway]

Hi Doug, what you are hearing is the AWS sound and if you are like me and don't like it and there is a way of disabling it.
Go into the Route Sound folder and look for the Signal.sms file, this is 2Kb in size and rename it Woodhead-Signal.sms, now go into the Default
Europe 1 Route folder and again look in the Sound Folder and copy that Signal.sms which is only 1kb in size and paste it into the Woodhead Sound
folder and when you run the route the Bell will be gone.

Cheers
Bob

[coolhand101]

This sound should only play when you past a signal on your track. I actually do miss this type of sound when running routes in OR.

[Easilyconfused]

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[a214sli]

This sound should only play when you past a signal on your track. I actually do miss this type of sound when running routes in OR.

Correct, it is possible also to set up the AWS horn sound and associated need to press the alerter when approaching a yellow/red, Jon Bilton did it with some DMUs.

[bootednancy]

Bob: [scampispeedway]
OK...trying that now and looks like it is working....thanks very much for the help.....

Coolhand:
Yes, it appears to have played at EVERY signal....and some big interlockings, it never stopped going off every second with a number of signals.

Easilyconfused:
And UNSUITABLE your foot, it's a GIRL on a Diesel Locomotive......................nothing as putrid as Censorship............the Commies and Nazis did that 60 years ago, looks like you people have not progressed beyond that when you have to decide what people can do.
Censorship in THIS country is a dangerous thing and rarely done against people's rights.....so too bad you don't like mine,...I don't hear this garbage out of other Forums.

[a214sli]

On my setup it also seems to play whenever an AI train goes through a signal nearby, don't know if there is a way of turning that off.

[ashgray]

Easilyconfused:
And UNSUITABLE your foot, it's a GIRL on a Diesel Locomotive......................nothing as putrid as Censorship............the Commies and Nazis did that 60 years ago, looks like you people have not progressed beyond that when you have to decide what people can do.
Censorship in THIS country is a dangerous thing and rarely done against people's rights.....so too bad you don't like mine,...I don't hear this garbage out of other Forums.

Seems you've not read the forum rules, Nancy: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 68&t=58279

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Ash

[coolhand101]

Coolhand:
Yes, it appears to have played at EVERY signal....and some big interlockings, it never stopped going off every second with a number of signals.

On my setup it also seems to play whenever an AI train goes through a signal nearby, don't know if there is a way of turning that off.

In the routes sound folder, try changing the distance for the cabcam from 75 to 10 or 5 in the signal.sms file. I haven't used MSTS in a while, but i'm sure this was the case for AI trains passing a signal under 75 meters from the player train. 5 should totally eliminate the AI trains causing the bell to go off. Any lower than 5, the bell might not play when the player train passes a signal.

Thanks

[Easilyconfused]

Easilyconfused:
And UNSUITABLE your foot, it's a GIRL on a Diesel Locomotive......................nothing as putrid as Censorship............the Commies and Nazis did that 60 years ago, looks like you people have not progressed beyond that when you have to decide what people can do.
Censorship in THIS country is a dangerous thing and rarely done against people's rights.....so too bad you don't like mine,...I don't hear this garbage out of other Forums.

OK fine.

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