TheOneKEA wrote:
Andy wrote:
"Daniel Martin" wrote in message
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chunky munky wrote:
The train will need to pass the station starter, no faster than 5mph.
Of course if there is a train in the section ahead, it may need to
stop, as the station starter will be at stop.

How does this work with ATO? Is the route code reprogrammed to ignore
Queensway, or is the code overridden?

There is a station skip which can be put on. It's used when stations are
closed for security alerts etc.

The only problem with using the station skip, IIRC, is that you can
only skip one station in three. So with Queensway closed, it would be
impossible to automatically skip either Lancaster Gate or Notting Hill
Gate - the driver would probably have to drive in CM past all three.

As I remember it the problem was more to do with ATO data uploads.

Normally a train at NHG2 (EB) will recieve route/run data for NHG2 -
QUE2, QUE2-LAG2 and LAG2-MAA2. (These are all the Platform ATO
Communicator aka PAC ID's).

Upon arrival at Queensway it would (if the station was open) get ATO
data for QUE2-LAG2, LAG2-MAA2 and MAA2-BOS2. As Queensway is closed
(and the PAC fuses removed so the train can't recieve the data there)
the train has got to drive to Lancaster Gate on the NHG info. Should
Lancaster Gate be closed it can then drive on the NHG data as far as
Marble Arch, at which point it must stop and communicate with the PAC
to be able to continue in ATO.

This is why ATO data modifications were so much fun (not!); you had to
modify at least three PACs for just one line of code in a run file.