Please remember the limitations of AWS. You will hear that AWS alarm an awful lot and acknowledging AWS can become an automatic action. You can acknowledge AWS without really thinking and SPADs have happened this way. It is always good practice to verbal call your controlled signals "that signal is at caution. next signal at danger, next signal at danger". It helps to remind me that my next signal is at stop and nothing but death, destruction and unemployment is on the other side of that red signal. I see you made this comment a year ago so you likely already know this but it may be helpful to someone else.
As a foreigner, I don't know why British Rail's train headlights are dark inside TSW4, I cannot see the speed warning signs in the dark without opening hud.
@user-xi8fo6vv1c TSW's lighting isn't the best. However, historically, headlights on trains were to warn others of their approach (and direction) rather than illuminate the line ahead for the Driver.
Hello sir, great video. A couple questions, how did you get your sim looking so amazing and running so smooth? I have a GTX1660 super and a 6 core CPU and I struggle to run medium settings at 30fps on the PDL. Any tips and any extra adding you're using to enhance your graphics? Also if you could post your PC specs that'd be great.
Hi there, thank you! When this video was made, I was on an 1080p monitor. Now I use 1440p monitors which helps. Also, I use RWEnhancer PRO ( www.rwcentral.com/store/product/6-rw-enhancer-pro/ ) which I highly recommend! Nividia RTX3080 (980ti when this video was made) Intel 10700K (Intel 6700K when this video was made) 32GB RAM (16GB when this video was made) and a multitude of non-mechanical storage!
Hi, great video. Did you start applying the brakes as soon as you went past the single yellow? Just trying to understand from the driver action point of view. Thank you!
Hiya, thanks for your comment. As this is just a simulator, I can only comment from a fictional perspective as far as driving is concerned. But as the distance between signals is short on this section, and I was travelling at a slow speed, I did start braking after the single yellow.
In the real world every signal is different. The distance between the signal and when you can sight the next signal is different. It not uncommon to go into max traction on approach to a caution signal but again it depends where that red signal is. For other signals you may start breaking on the approach to the signal at caution. You also need to consider your current track conditions when on a caution. Wheel Slip can be huge danger here as you can slide pass that signal at stop. So to answer your question from a driver point of view it depends on the signal and depends on current track conditions. This is what we call track knowledge and it the most important part of driving a train. I have breaking landmarks too. It may be box or sign on the network but I know if I start breaking when I pass that landmark I will stop safely for my signal. On wet track i will start my breaking well before my landmark.
Hello there, I have a question are AWS and TPWS compatible ? Because AWS also has the same function of TPWS which is "brakes to be applied if the driver does not acknowledge it within a certain time" in case the train (SPAD) Then I think both of them has the same function why I will use AWS and TPWS in the same time ?
Hi, AWS preceded TPWS by a number of years, hence why AWS is in operation across the entire network. AWS is not foolproof, for example in the Ladbroke Grove accident of 1999, where TPWS was not yet fitted. This accident encouraged a faster rollout of TPWS, after Automatic Train Protection (which wasn't fitted to the class of train involved) was deemed too expensive after the Clapham Junction accident of 1988. A Driver could acknowledge AWS out of routine but still not register the signal is at Danger and therefore still pass it. TPWS acts as another layer of safety in most areas, linking in with the Swiss cheese model of accident causation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model.
