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richieb1971

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Whenever I've seen a 715 tonne train on RTT its usually a track machine.

Its a strange working to say the least. There are no sidings at Lidlington so likely a track machine.
 

Deltic1

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Thanks, thought it might be a track machine but the trailing load made me think otherwise!
 

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TheEdge

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yes - that is just the timing load for the timetabling system

I see these and wonder why? Can the timetabling system not understand it being timed as a simple OTM or does 715 tonnes have some significance?
 

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It is because it is the timing load with the most populated SRTs, nothing more nothing less. There are specific OTM timing loads but I dont know if these feed down to RealtimeTrains in the same way. Some timing loads dont such as Chiltern 168s showing as 158s.
 

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There are specific OTM timing loads but I dont know if these feed down to RealtimeTrains in the same way.

In the CIF there is literally only a power type and timing load field. The speed is also derived from these. There is a translation mapping between the ITPS versions of these and the CIF version, but for quite a few they are so numerous that it's not worth even trying to decode it. (A future version of RTT does have a decode table for some.)
 
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