System Requirements

Minimum

• You MUST have a working internet connection to be able to use this simulation!
• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 (32 Bit or 64 Bit Version)
• Intel Pentium 2.0 GHz or better
• 1GB RAM or more
• 200 MB hard disk space or more
• Graphics card with screen resolution of 1024x768 or better
• Sound Card

Monitors

The simulation can run on a monitor with 1024×768 resolution, though we strongly encourage higher resolutions for a better simulation experience.For optimal results, you might consider having a widescreen monitor. Multiple widescreen monitors are ideal.

Microsoft .Net Framework

This computer program uses the Microsoft .NET Framework.If this is not available, it will be installed upon installation of the application.

Recommended

• Windows Vista or Windows 7, Windows 8 (32 or 64 Bit)
• 4 GB RAM memory
• High speed Internet connection (broadband)
• Widescreen with at least 1680x1050 resolution. Ideal: 2 or more screens.

Here is a link to the location of this signal box from the OpenRailwaymap. This map provides current information.

The simulation may show a slightly different layout. This has to do with when the simulation displays the signal box.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=51.451847411657695&lon=7.013665437698364&zoom=16

PSB Essen Central Station (EE)

You MUST have a working internet connection to be able to use this simulation!

Because this simulation is very complex and is part of a larger platform in development, we would like to keep intensive contact with our customers and offer each user the latest version available. It is therefore that registration and use of the license key is obligatory.

The Signalling Centre Essen Hbf is a very large panel. It actually is divided in two distinctive parts with a few connections. The light grey part is the commuter traffic, the dark gray part the long distance traffic.

This simulation is prepared for linking up with line operations to Gelsenkirchen, Bochum and Mülheim (Ruhr)  those will be released in the near future.

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Features of the Signalling Centre Essen Hbf:

• Contains the area between Gelsenkirch, Bochum and Mülheim(Ruhr)
• 12 time table points are included.
• Complete 1:1 simulation of the original panel of the type Sp Dr S 60 including all buttons!
• Zentralblock-System and Automatic Block System
• ZNP 801 train number descriptor system
• Group buttons on panel and in separate window.
• Special zoom window
• Day and night brightness of signals with dimmer and bell.
• Logging printer with sound.
• 4 brightness levels for panel lighting.

Background information:

http://www.railsignalling.org/signalwiki/index.php?title=Dispatching_in_Zentralstellwerk_Essen_Hbf

(work in progress!)

Program and documentation is in English.

Some data of Signalling Centre Essen Hbf

• 1416 possible routes (train, shunt, alternatives)
• 344 signals
• 271 switches/points/turnouts
• 578 track sections (191 km network length in total)
• 6440 panel tiles (!). In total 1192 buttons to press!
• up to 1500 trains per day!

The timetable is from Winter 2012/2013. The timetable contains all long distance trains (ICE, IC), regional, commuter and S-Bahn trains.