@JK Yes! Thanks for your patience and the really great mods. I've been busy placing signal boxes next to all my new gated level crossings and they look brilliant.

@Didz - Glad you got it sorted.

Ok! My bad. My brain has just caught up with the facts and I realised that switching a mod on in the settings logically wouldn't switch it one for every existing game in progress.

So, I've just had another look and realised that there is another mod selection option associated with games Loading menu. I know you said that but my brain has only just caught up.

So, I had switch the British Signal Box on in the Settings (under Free Game/Advanced) but hadn't switched it on for my Saved Game in the Loading Menu. I'm sure doing so will solve the problem.

In fact, there are several other mods that are not switched on in the Loading Menu that need to be so hopefully it will solve quite a few mysteries.

Sad news is that I tried this mod again on my main game and its still not showing up. Neither are the gated level crossings. So, it does seem to require a new game to work, as it worked fine last night when I tested it on one.

I'm just wondering if its because I'm loading from a save game, but other mods I'm using seem to appear.

Ok! I double checked and it was switched on. I also started a brand new game just to check and both the signal box and the gated level crossing were working in the new game. I'll try my saved game again tomorrow and see if anythings changed.

@Didz - It should be always available in the Assets menu. Check you've enabled this mod in the Load game screen.

I have this mod but can;t seem to find it in my game. Does it only work on a new map?

great work, looks good thanx

It's good to hear that you are planning to make your mods available TpF2.

@Norfolk_Chris - It would be possible. I think I was considering adding it next time I update it (which might not be til TpF2). My Yard Crane mod allows placing of the 'Railwayman' separately, so if you want you could them manually in the meantime.

Is it possible to add a signalman inside the box?

No error message it just dropped out.

wolfiee - Did it give an error message when it crashed? If you can post the last line or so of the crash log file stdout.txt, it might contain some clues. It should be in ...\Steam\userdata\ <-- Your Steam ID --> \446800\local\crash_dump\ It's worth checking you have the latest version of the mod (v1.421), which fixed some occasional crashes.

Dont know why but when I click on this in game it crashes

@JK why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the suggestion, lowering it does a pretty decent job of replicating a small box.

@excr - Thanks, glad you like it. I've done a quick image search and I see what you mean. I might be able to add lower options at some point in the future. But as a stand-in, you could try it set with no steps, platform height, and then click on the bottom menu bar and use Page Down/Up keys to lower the height to ground level.

Hey JK, I've been using this for a while and it's brilliant. Do you think you might have time in the future to add a shorter single storey version of the signal box? I'm currently trying to build a Forest of Dean network with your GWR mods and one of RolleyPovey's maps, and small boxes appear to have been very common on the smaller branches and mineral lines of that area. Thanks, as always, for sharing your work :)

I've now updated this, which should stop the intermittent crashes that a few people encountered. Thanks to GrandT for assistance on this. I've also added the option of flat rooves (see the last screenshot), as previously suggested by MarkyT. (Due to the nature of the code update, this option is only available on instances built since this update.)

@JK- Thats awsome, I hope you get the time to work on modding as i love the mods you have produced already. Thanks for the reply :)

@Olihans - I've had various ideas for signals in the past and previously found some websites with good details on the subject. I'm currently busy with unrelated projects, but I've put signals on the list of possiblities for when I get more time for modding. Thanks.

Hey @JK, I have all of your mods to make epic GWR set ups but one minor thing that bugs me is signals, i have the other British style signals but the GWR signals instead of lifting upwards on the arm, they dropped downwards, as i am sure you know. I was wondering if you could make a GWR signal and maybe GWR distance signal too. Would love to do them myself but i have never done modeling for the game before.

Working again now. Odd.

@ghm67 - If you can post the last line or so of the crash log file stdout.txt, it might contain some clues. It should be in ...\Steam\userdata\ <-- Your Steam ID --> \446800\local\crash_dump\

@JK @Nickie same crash just happened to me as well, but it wasn't autosaving at the time

FANTASTIC

@JK - I can't recreate the crash either. When it did happen I had just clicked on the station building icon (in Terrian | Track Assets) while TPF was autosaving (I hadn't noticed it was autosaving or I would have just left it to do its thing). And then: CTD with the crashdump file error message mentioned previously. Something wonky going on with the autosaving, I suppose. I haven't used your Tunnel Air Shaft mod yet, but will. It looks just as great as the Signal Box.

@Nickie - I'm not sure what's causing that. I haven't been able to recreate the crash or find any error in the code. You could try unsubscribing from the mod, restarting Steam and then subscribing again. Or perhaps it could be a conflict with another mod. Are you also using my Tunnel Air Shaft mod (which I've updated this evening)?

There seems to be a bug in this asset. I just experienced a CTD with the following error message:

error: error: ...es/construction/asset/jk_british-signal-box-building.con:181 : attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[C](-1): __sub
...es/construction/asset/jk_british-signal-box-building.con(181) : ?

I believe it happened when I clicked on the building icon.

@JK - Thanks for the reply. I'll look forward to any updates.

Ah brilliant. Thanks JK, and for all your other Brit stuff.

@ThameslinkMick - Thanks. It's in Terrian, Track Assets, it's own icon. See the last screenshot, above.

This looks really nice JK, and I have subscribed to it, so thank you. However, as with a good many other mods, I can't find it when playing the game. Could you advise where it is please.

@MarkyT - Glad you like it and thanks for your suggestions.
1. That's a good idea and shouldn't be too hard, if I can find a suitable texture.
2. I decided early on doing that would be too complicated.
3. This should be quite simple.
4. I think that'd be too much trouble at this stage.
5. I was considering a small porch, but left it (and some other) out as the mod was taking too long.
If I do an update at some-point, I'll probably include 1 and 2 and maybe 5.

Thanks for a great mod. I'm a signalbox enthusiast & work in signal engineering for a heritage railway. I love the configurability & have a few suggestions to make it even better:
1. Flat roof option for a later look. Especially useful for the general railway building, Many in use for signal relay rooms etc have flat roofs.
2. Building depth, separately controllable for lower & upper sections. Small boxes in particular, looks too deep imho. Some real boxes have a deeper top floor overhanging one or both ways from a narrower lower section. Often for clearance reasons to adjacent tracks or on platfroms to give passengers space to walk past safely.
3. Option for lever frame position at back of box, common in real life. Just a 180 deg. rotation of interior.
4. Double sided option with windows on all sides.
5. Lobby/washroom option at the top of the stairs. small extension of lower section underneath or supported by separate uprights, or bracketed from end wall.

fantastic mod .Thanks.

Beautiful - keep 'em coming!

thank god for that JK! the german signal boxes are alright but just not British! :)
thank you

UK style stations next?

Fantastic work, if you can do this you can certainly do stations now!

Nice one JK hopefully in the future.

Thanks for the fedback everyone. I'll have a look into doing GWR & other British stations at some point in the future. I've had quite a few ideas previously and while doing this mod. And some of what I've done for this could be used for stations. I'll also have to look into if I can incorporate some of the modded station features others have innovated (curved platforms etc). It will probably be a few months away as I have other updates to finish and I'm cutting back on modding while it's summer.

I'll second some British Stations too, if it's possible.

wow I agree stations please these signal boxes are brilliant.

hope to see a station in the same disign

LOVELY.

Finally have BR signal boxes than the Germans ones.

another beauty of a mod. thanks jk

Very nice, nice to see LNER, just as they are back on the ECML. :)

Looking good.

One of the best British assets for a long time. Now we can use proper British Signal Boxes on all the British Maps at long last. Thank you JK.