However, things have changed, and for some time now new OR-specific 'Approach Control' signalling functions are available, which can enforce such behaviour by keeping the signal at danger until the train is close to the signal or has reduced its speed sufficiently.
That leads to the question what to do now with the automatic restrictions.
In my view, there are a number of options.
- Keep things as they are.
There have been very few remarks on this behaviour, in general it seems to have been accepted. - Make it a user option.
Would not be difficult, but I fear many users will nor really know what the effect would be. - Make it a route-specific option.
Such an option would have to wait until we have OR-specific route definition files. - Remove the option and for those signal systems where it is required, the signal scripts must be adapted to use the 'Approach Control' functions.
I'd like to know your opinion on this, please.
Regards,
Rob Roeterdink