Yapton Crossing Signal Box Simulation

The screen capture shows how to operate the demonstration period of the Yapton Crossing signal box simulation. The demo version of this simulation is available for free download here:-
www.blockpostso.... I hope this will be of help to beginners trying to find their way around things!

[@paulheiser1]

Excellent fun. I ended up getting the full version.

[@SOU6900]

Now if only you would do a video for Portcreek Junction that I could use to figure out just what I'm doing wrong when I get a message saying "block release not obtained 9".

[@blockpostsoftware]

You must be getting a line clear from the wrong box. To pull 2 you need a line clear from Cosham Junction (middle instrument) to pull 5 you need line clear from Farlington Junction - right hand instrument. 12 need line clear from Green Lanes Crossing (left hand instrument)

[@pingpongpung]

Could you repost this video with a higher resolution, or at least an explanation what you are doing?

[@blockpostsoftware]

You can increase the resolution - click th setting icon (gearwheel). You can download it to copy the action here:- blockpostsoftware.co.uk/downloads.php

[@pingpongpung]

@@blockpostsoftware I can copy what is being done, but I still don't understand what is happening with the brown levers. At 0:15, after Ford has offered a train, and I tell them the line is clear, 1 and 2 are pulled forward, closing and locking the gates? Then at 1:29, Barnham accepts the train I've accepted from Ford. After that the levers are pushed back, opening the gate? No, that can't be. I must understand this wrong?

[@blockpostsoftware]

@@pingpongpung It is the other way round - when you pull the brown levers, you open the gates to the road, when you put them back, you open to the railway. You can give a Line Clear even when the gates are closed to the railway. But you cannot clear your signals until you have opened them to the railway. I know that seems wrong, but that is how it was done at Yapton, and also at Ford - you can download that simulation to try it also. It is only the signals which protect the level crossing so it is a safe thing to do and it allows the cars to keep moving on this busy road - which still gives trouble 54 years after the signalbox closed:- ruclips.net/video/Arj5uyNMx04/видео.html