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I got mine yesterday evening and loaded up a weekly ticket at 6am today from Mount florida to central. Went to use it this morning and it was declined at both ends. They let me through when I showed them the receipt on my phone. Turns out there's a 24 hour delay in the ticket being loaded to...

Might be stupid but is the route electrified?

Thanks TDK. Yes, open bve is much simpler (thankfully, not sure I could learn it all!) but interesting stuff about the early termination. All the different systems and procedures are fascinating.

Thanks everyone, interesting stuff. Do you happen to know why they're still air operated? Is that something you get very often?

Seemingly all trains on higher level cancelled or delated from about half 3 today. Anyone have any insight? VT services were running from Motherwell with bus services in between http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/80237.aspx

Hi Sily - thanks for your reply, super interesting. That makes a lot of sense, and assume in a ESR there are emergency procedures to be followed anyway. And very helpful about the warning board - it actually looks like you get these in BVE but I just thought they indicated the start of the TSR...

Hi all, What notice would you be given about a TSR on the line? Would the signaller let you know if it was a immediate thing or, if it was planned, I assume it be announced to the drivers? I ask because playing BVE you get random TSR in places, but with no warning I was going from 125 down...

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your reply. I notice that there's this message: 'BVE Information and downloads Due to some despicable person compromising this site and attaching viruses to the downloads, I have been forced to remove all BVE downloads until further notice. Sorry.' It seems...

Hello, I have been searching on the forum for downloads links for various open bve routes. Specifically Edinburgh - Aberdeen and Glasgow based routes. Most of the pages are now missing or broken. Is there an updated resource for their routes? Or can anyone share them? I live in Scotland so...