Basic AWS & TPWS Tutorial

[@baptistuk]

I'm a trainee signaller and this video was used as a great tutorial, which it was. Thank you.

[@westierail8742]

I'm glad I could help. 🙂

[@FarmYardGaming]

I hear cabin bongs in 720s and see signal stuff all the time, you've made it clear. Thanks, I've wondered about this!

[@agnieszkanowak9700]

Great and very informative I am trainee driver and it’s a lot to take in and to understand all the info thank you

[@westierail8742]

I'm glad I could help. Good luck with your training!

[@sweety1009]

That's amazing, congratulations! How was the application process? (If you wouldn't mind).

[@carmattvidz4426]

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.

[@RipperBravo]

Working on these currently at Kettering to Wigston line. 👍

[@TheRoadReview]

Great video, I learnt something

[@westierail8742]

Thanks, I'm glad!

[@sweety1009]

You are so informative - thank you!

[@boomerborks8307]

So planes have GPWS (ground proximity warning system) and TAWS (Terrain awareness warning system) and trains have TPWS and AWS

[@nishyanthkumar]

TPWS is more comparable to TCAS (although they are quite different)

[@spiritofcantaolisboa-p8871]

Thank you so much.

[@westierail8742]

No worries!

[@togurotoguro]

Far more easy to understand than the romanian Indusi system

[@Bornflyhuhu]

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!

[@westierail8742]

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.

[@Bornflyhuhu]

@@westierail8742 oh I see, thank you for the explanation :)

[@-gazzag2721]

Depends how far the next signal is. Regardless though you should do some form of reaction(brake/slow down) to the single yellow

[@lonelymtn]

Chasing yellows is frowned upon and is not good defensive driving practice.

[@carmattvidz4426]

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.

[@Shah84838]

Which train software is this?

[@westierail8742]

Train Simulator Classic

[@金豆理事]

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.

[@westierail8742]

@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.

[@mintyaviation2376]

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.

[@westierail8742]

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!

[@mintyaviation2376]

@@westierail8742 Thank you for the reply. I am still baffled as to why my framerate is so abysmal on this route... maybe something is wrong.

[@westierail8742]

@@mintyaviation2376 It's a very resource intensive route. Try RW Enhancer as that should help quite a bit.

[@kylehill9969]

@@mintyaviation2376 Do you have Intel or AMD?

[@mintyaviation2376]

@@kylehill9969 AMD.. Ryzen 5 3600

[@blueb0g]

What service is this?

[@AirTaxiA370]

One of my local stations

[@calsmarn9552]

What is the alarm that sounds at 1:58 and 3:03

[@westierail8742]

That's just the unique sound of the traction motors on this Class 444 (and other Desiros). 🙂

[@ehabahmed615]

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 ?

[@westierail8742]

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.

[@pook2830]

Why is the aspect ratio all wrong?

[@westierail8742]

Because at the time of recording, I was using a 2560 x 1080 monitor (21:9).

[@stuartbrookfield]

What is this game called ?

[@westierail8742]

Train Simulator Classic.

[@damianc.0.681]

Thank you soooo much

[@max_rwv]

Nice

[@Amz19871]

It looks like you had a points run through coming out of the platform there lol

[@westierail8742]

It does a bit! TS is funny like that

[@anglosaxon5874]

Tut tut. The DRA was not on! lol [Know it's a game.] I know you correctly put it on at the end. Edit: Black plate = a 'controlled signal'.

[@westierail8742]

Thanks for your feedback! Yes, the DRA should have been on before setting off. Well spotted!

[@stephenrogers2648]

@@westierail8742 also you had it in forward when it should of been in neutral.

[@rashmikadeshan6705]

1. Is it signal will be turned green? 2. What is this game? 3. Is this game has AI signals control system?

[@westierail8742]

1. When the section ahead is clear 2. Train Simulator Classic (PC) 3. Yes

[@denzzlinga]

5:11 why did you stop? pass it and show us how TPWS kicks in :D

[@ben.taylor]

I think it ends the scenario if you SPAD

[@RCMadness360]

That bloody npc though 🤣🤣🤣