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                            SHEDMASTER BOUNDS GREEN


INTRODUCTION
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The introduction of Inter-City 125 High Speed Trains in the mid and late 1970's
brought new standards of passenger travel, and radical changes in methods of
railway operation.  Fixed formation sets are diagrammed for intense utilization
and rapid turnrounds by day and depot attention by night.  Sets clocking up
typically 800 - 1000 miles of running in the course of a day require a nightly
'environmental' service supplemented by a comprehensive 'A' examination every
other night.  Major examinations are undertaken at progressively longer
intervals, culminating in a complete works overhaul every few years.  To
service HST's depots were designed on a flow line system, and in this
simulation you are the mid-week ( Monday to Thursday ) Night Production Manager
at Bounds Green depot some 5 miles north of Kings Cross.

BOUNDS GREEN FLOW LINE SYSTEM
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Please refer to the image file shedboun.png for a diagram of Bounds Green
depot.

HST sets from Kings Cross and St Pancras arrive at Ferme Park reception sidings
where they are checked and power cars are refuelled.  Sets then proceed through
a washing plant adjacent to the East Coast main line before crossing it on a
flyover to reverse at Bowes Park and await entry to the depot.  Up to six HST
sets may be accommodated at a time on four service and two maintenance roads,
the latter having pits allowing access to underfloor equipment.  Faults that
cannot be quickly rectified generally have replacement modules fitted in situ.
A seriously defective power car can be swopped for a fleet spare, hopefully to
be repaired the following day in the repair shop.  With scheduled work
completed sets are allocated to their duties and are ferried to their starting
locations or to stabling sidings at Hornsey.

One of the Bounds Green HST sets is assumed to be receiving attention at Derby
works.  With three 2 day diagrams this means that only five BN sets will return
home each night.  Three Midland line (ML) sets are scheduled for overnight
attention, and two from Neville Hill (NL) although Heaton(HT) or Craigentinny
(EC) sets may occasionally substitute.

Bounds Green is additionally responsible for maintenance and repair of hauled
coaching stock, in particular MKIII sleepers, nightrider and charter sets, and
rakes of parcels, postal and newspaper vans.

YOUR ROLE AS PRODUCTION MANAGER
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You direct and oversee servicing and maintenance of HST's arriving at Bounds
Green each night, ensuring that where possible mechanically sound sets are
provided for the following day's workings.  Your screen display shows the
progress of HST's through the flow line system.  Time is updated in 20 minute
increments by pressing the RETURN/ENTER key rather than inputing a set number.
On each hour the supervisor provides updates, if HST work is outstanding you
will be given the opportunity of diverting labour from the heavy repair shop to
aid services and maintenance roads.  Two men may be directed to one or more of
the roads.  Enter the required codes in response to the 'men' prompt, a direct
pressing of the RETURN/ENTER key will result in a return to normal working.
Any such redeployment will obviously disrupt the scheduled workload and in
practical terms this may delay a spare power car becoming available later.

Each shift begins with a TOPS listing giving the condition and expected arrival
times of incoming sets.  Having been informed of the staffing situation try to
formulate a strategy for dealing with the night's work.  From 2040 hrs onwards
coaching stock undergoing daytime servicing will vacate the depot, and HST's
will begin to arrive at Ferme Park.  As sets become available they must be
directed through the washing facility by specifying the 'W' command, if the
washer is free and no more than one set is waiting at Bowes Park.  Waiting sets
are directed into a service or maintenance road in the shed by entering a road
code (S1-S4,M1 or M2) ensuring the selected road is free.  Sets requiring
remedial attention (denoted by /R on the end of their service code) should if
possible be dealt with in maintenance roads (M1,M2) with any spare capacity in
the M roads being used for A examinations (AEX) rather than environmental (ENV)
servicing.  If remedial (AE/R or EN/R) looks like taking too long you have the
options of swopping to a spare, if available (type PS), or aborting the work
(type PA) sending the set out with a single working power car as a last resort
measure.

A set ready to depart should be allocated to a working listed at the top right
of the screen.  Enter the appropriate departure time code, the last letter of
which is the starting station (K for Kings Cross, H for Huntingdon and S for St
Pancras).  If possible sets for Kings Cross should be despatched at least 1
hours before their required time, workings will be cancelled if no HST has been
allocated 20 minutes prior to departure.  Allow 2 hours for Huntingdon and 50
minutes for St. Pancras.  Bounds Green sets can only be allocated to BN (one
day) or BN* (two day) diagrams, and every effort should be made to allocate
sets which have just had an A examination to the two day diagrams so that no
more than an environmental service is necessary away from home.  If a Bounds
Green set has to be despatched with only a single power car operative it should
be allocated to either the 0500K or 0750K workings.  The set will then be
replaced by a spare at Leeds, and the power car repaired at Neville Hill before
the set is put back on diagram the following day.

Neville Hill provides sets for both its own (NL) and Midland line (ML)
diagrams.  Special seven coach formations are used for the latter, and whenever
possible an ML designated set should be allocated to an ML duty.

Towards the end of the night parcels and coaching stock will begin to arrive on
depot.  Your shift ends when all HST work is complete or at 0700 hrs when the
Day Manager arrives.  He arranges for the completion of any unfinished HST
work, and informs Control at York of any missed workings or outstanding
allocation problems.

We hope that you enjoy this look behind the scenes at the operation of a modern
Inter City depot.  Clearly the job of Production Manager controlling today's
by-and-large smoothly running flow line system is a far cry from the shedmaster
role of the past, and in other games in this series we hope to give you the
flavour of shed operations in both the traditional diesel and steam eras.


LOADING THE PROGRAM
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SPECTRUM  The program is loaded by typing LOAD""

BBC  The program is loaded by typing CHAIN ""

COMMODORE  The program is loaded by pressing the RUN/STOP and SHIFT keys
together

AMSTRAD  The program is loaded by CHAIN "BGreen"
