Rijndam

[RotterdamMetroLover]

They will never guess it.

[poopy]

Great! On what line do you drive, want what type(s) of rolling stock? Do you feel your job is in danger due to the increasing number of diverless rolling stock on the Paris metro system (like on lines 1 and 14)?

I have noticed the Paris metro system uses only red/green lights on its signalling system. Did you ever fail to stop at a red signal you did not expect (as you don't get a yellow signal first, warning the next one will be red)?
Are you driving yourself, or are you driving more in the London Victorialine style; press a start button, and the train drives itself to the next station?

Can you provide a few good recordings (in *.wav or *.mp3 format) of the door closing signal, plus closing of the doors, but without all the background sounds? I mean sounds like this; https://youtu.be/mA2l4Zr2uME?t=39s (that typical Paris metro buzzer, and then hearing the doors closing)? Perhaps you could make a few recordings of it in a depot-setting, or during a break on a reversing track, where there is no backgroud sounds (like other trains driving, people chatting, things like that)?


In Rijndam 2020, there are a few Paris reverences; the airport shuttleservice has been transformed to the Paris style rubber tyred system, and this station entrance on line M6:

- I drive on line 9 from Mairie de Montreuil to Pont de Sèvres it's the third busiest metro line in Paris (soon line 2 and 3/3bis) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M%C3%A9tro_Line_9) //It's running with MF01 trains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_01)
I love my job and not all lines will be automatised because of the coast of doing it and insted of automatise, they will develop in-cab signalling which is running on line 5 called OCTYS.

- The signalling system also use yellow in certains conditions :
* when the visibility of signal is low, you have a repeater with only 2 aspect : yellow, green. Yellow : next signal is red. Green : next signal is green.
* some signals can also be combined with a repeater with 3 aspect signal : red, yellow, green. But the green means that you can pass THIS signal
but the next one can be yellow with some restrictive speed limit so you must slow down to see if the next signal is yellow.
* you have three type of signals : automatic signals, protection signals (protecting points, or shunting zones...), and repeaters. When you are in
the mainline, all protection signals have repeater even if the visibility of this signal is good. If a signal repeat a protection signal and show the
yellow aspect, you must push the awknowledge button the say to the system : "ok, I saw that the next protection signal is red".

- For the moment I never passed a signal at danger. Let's hope it will never arrive

- I drive by myself, I don't like automatic mode.

- I can do some recordings if you want. Let's talk about it by PM

[Sjoerd]

Thank you!
I'll send you a PM

[Alfacinha315]

In Rijndam 2020, there are a few Paris reverences; the airport shuttleservice has been transformed to the Paris style rubber tyred system, and this station entrance on line M6:

Exactly like in Picoas station...



(Well, more or less, but I see you used the same font)

[Sjoerd]

Exactly like in Picoas station...
(Well, more or less, but I see you used the same font)

I just googled pictures with "metropolitain", picked out a good one (I do not remember exactly which one), and made a screenshot of it, which I used on a stationsign-object

[MattH]

Siding S13 (near Central Station) is glitched, as I can't spawn a train there...

Can you set the 3rd rail from Denia to Central Station, or is there a passenger diesel?

Why was there not originally a heavy rail station at Molenwijk? Could there be an abandoned platform pre-2020?
I like to think it was closed in the 1970s either because of low passenger numbers or the railway company thought it was redundant
That also explains why there is a bend before Molenwijk station

[LosAngelesMetro56]

And I think a passenger underpass under M1 to the Rijndam Molenwijk with entries to M1's platforms can also be interesting. M1's platforms would need shelter if this is the case. Maybe the main terminal waiting area for trains can also be in that open spot? But maybe it's too late to say something...

Oh well

[Sjoerd]

Siding S13 (near Central Station) is glitched, as I can't spawn a train there...

I had not noticed that before, but I see the problem. I managed to fix it in Rijndam 2020, and will look at the other Rijndam versions too.

Can you set the 3rd rail from Denia to Central Station, or is there a passenger diesel?

There is no passenger diesel train at this moment. But I have defined (but not physically build, so you don't see it) 3rd rail between Rijndam Zuid and Denia (Rijndam 2006), so the RijndamRail 9000-series can run there. It will be like you are running the last bit on batteries

Why was there not originally a heavy rail station at Molenwijk? Could there be an abandoned platform pre-2020?
I like to think it was closed in the 1970s either because of low passenger numbers or the railway company thought it was redundant
That also explains why there is a bend before Molenwijk station

I never planned there to be a station before 2020. Look at it this way; there was a small settlement there (around the church), which might even have had a railway station when the railway was build. When the nearby Rijndam grew, it became part of Rijndam. And then Rijndam started talking about building the first metro; as the depot was planned in Molenwijk, that would mean Molenwijk and the Rijndam city center (and train station) would be linked by this new service. A train station here would then be unnecessary, and removing it would speed up the train services.
But decades later, in 2018, it becomes clear passenger numbers have grown. And by this time, the RijndamRail service (only servicing Rijndam Stations.... and Noordvliet) is a big succes. It is decided to extend it to Molenwijk, where a new station is build (to be opened in 2020) next to the M1 metro terminus;



The small difference in height of the pedestrian walkway is to accommodate the overhead wires of the railway. Inside, a ramp is provided for easier walk trough.

[Samuel]

Batteries are realistically not powerful enough to move a full size train with passengers....

[Sjoerd]

Batteries are realistically not powerful enough to move a full size train with passengers....

Yes they are.

Vivarail has transformed a London Underground D-stock train into a diesel-electric unit, and then decided to run it fully on batteries (now called the Class 230):

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/news ... -test.html
http://www.struktonrail.com/news/2017/p ... ed-trains/
http://vivarail.co.uk/
http://www.focustransport.org/2017/07/c ... rvice.html


(source picture: from the last link above)

And this is nothing new; in many countries, trains run on battery packs; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_e ... tiple_unit

Even on Dutch tracks, battery trains have been used (but not anymore); the trains the Deutsche Bahn ran between Aachen (D) and Maastricht (NL) ran on battery power; https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accutrein
Baureihe 515 (Simpelveld, NL):

https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5061/56 ... 2bea_b.jpg