For archival purposes, it might be worth it to save the “old” news. Compiled here is the aggregated news over 2011:
2011 Archive
27 December 2011: New project added – Churchville by Bjorn Verzijlbergh
25 December 2011: Sneak preview added of Bradley Kempster’s new project – Metropolitan Line from Uxbridge to Rayners Lane
24 December 2011: New program version 1.1.3 added. This corrects the error mentioned below where adjacent level crossings on the same track caused problems. The change prevents level crossing being placed next to each other. A note has also been added to the User Manual and in program help in section 5.4 Timetable validation. This states: “Note that a train that is timetabled to stop at the same station twice without a change of direction in between (running in a ring for example) will cause a validation error as the checker thinks that the second entry is a mistake. To get round this restriction there must be a change of service (Fns – Sns combination) before the station is reached for the second time.” Bjorn recognised this problem when trying to run a train in a loop on his railway and I realised that I had not mentioned it in the manual or in the help file.
21 December 2011: Level crossing error warning! Bjorn Verzijlbergh has discovered that if two level crossings are placed next to each other on the same track then weird things happen when setting routes and when trains try to cross! I need to think about how best to deal with this situation but in the meantime please avoid having adjacent crossings on the same track. My thanks to Bjorn for bringing this to my attention.
10 December 2011: Updated project – Amsterdam Metro version 2 added by Bjorn Verzijlbergh
2 August 2011: New project added – Chicago Union Station by Matt Burb
15 July 2011: New project added – Quokka by Simon Banham
5 July 2011: James Underwood has set up a new ProBoards forum for the simulator with threads for discussion, help, user created maps/timetables, and suggestions etc. Click here to access: http://railways-simulation.proboards.com
4 July 2011: New project added – Victoria Central Workstation 2 by James Underwood, (click here for Workstation 1) – there will be three in all .
4 July 2011: Updated project – Matt Blades has added version 2 of his East Lancs “Bus Railway”
4 July 2011: New program version 1.1.2 added. This corrects two errors that were discovered by Matt Blades – my thanks to him for notifying me.
11 June 2011: Updated project – East Lancs “Bus Railway” by Matt Blades (this is an update to version 1, version 2 is also now available from 04/07/11 on the same page).
1 May 2011: New project added – East Lancs “Bus Railway” by Matt Blades (inspired by Ben Leigh’s Weymouth bus railway)
27 April 2011: New program version 1.1.1 added. This corrects an error that could cause session files to fail on loading, and improves the appearance of saved bitmap images.
26 April 2011: Updated project – Woking ASC Version 3 by Glenn Mitchell
13 April 2011: New program version 1.1.0 added. The main change here is the addition of level crossings. A few other minor changes have also been incorporated.
29 March 2011: THREE new additions by Bjorn Verzijlbergh! Two new projects – Amsterdam Metro and Cloeckewijck, and an update to Haarlem with minor additions to the station and more trains in the timetable
26 March 2011: New project added – Haarlem by Bjorn Verzijlbergh
2 March 2011: New program version 1.0.0 added. This is the first production version, released as the program is judged to be sufficiently stable after almost a year of beta testing. The only change from beta v0.6c is a minor change to the performance scoring system.
23 February 2011: New project added – Victoria Central Workstation 1 by James Underwood – there will be three in all. Note that Workstation 2 is now available from 04/07/11 – click here)
20 February 2011: New project added – The Cambrian Line by Mark Jones
20 February 2011: New program version 0.6c – added. This corrects an error in the last version that caused chronological timetables to be corrupted.
18 February 2011: New project added – Pennsylvania Railroad by Warren Wilson
13 February 2011: New program version 0.6b – added. This adds three enhancements, makes two changes, and corrects two errors. See the Errors corrected & other changes page for more information.
2 February 2011: New project added – NJM Railways by NajamUddin Alam
31 January 2011: New program version 0.6a – added. This version adapts the displayed railway size to the screen resolution for resolutions higher than 1024 x 768 and also corrects an error on calling a train on. Thanks again to NajamUddin for reporting this.
27 January 2011: New program version – beta v0.6 – added. This is a significant revision incorporating two and three-aspect signals and ground signals, and also a variable speed timetable clock. Several errors have also been corrected, including an important one that could occur during route building (thanks to NajamUddin for reporting this). See the Errors corrected & other changes page for more information.
19 January 2011: New project added – Sighe by Simon Banham
8 January 2011: New program version – beta v0.5 – added. The main change is the addition of distance and speed converters from imperial units to metric units to facilitate track element length and speed limit entries during track building, and train speed entries during timetable compilation.
4 January 2011: New project added, recommended for new starters – Aldershot by Glenn Mitchell