Light signal

The Light Signal is the large display for a Create signal, built after the Ks signals of Deutsche Bahn: a narrow black screen with red (top), green (left) and yellow (right) under long hoods, the box of the speed indicator above, the advance speed indicator below and the white name plate under it. Its lamps shine regardless of daylight and carry a faint halo, so you see them from far away at night.

The block is two blocks tall. Besides the Ks system it can show H/V, Hl and semaphore signals; those are described under Signal systems.

Put one up

Connecting it to a Create signal

There are three ways. The first one that applies wins.

The display target has three lines to choose from in the Display Link:

What the signal shows

The Ks system has three types, chosen in the settings:

Meaning after the signal book:

• A main signal has no yellow. Create's "proceed, next section occupied" shows as plain Ks 1 there.
• A distant signal has no red. It shows yellow when the Create signal it is connected to shows stop, otherwise green. So connect a distant signal to the Create signal it announces.
• The green lamp flashes as Ks 1 with Zs 3v only while the advance speed indicator shows a digit; Zs 3v itself lights only together with Ks 1.

Settings

Right click the signal with Create's wrench. Only players with the management right may change anything.

A switched-off indicator disappears from the signal completely. Its digit stays stored, but has no effect.

The white extra light is a marker from the signal book. It lights only while the signal announces something: Ks 2, or Ks 1 with a digit on Zs 3v.

Speed limit with Zs 3

The box above the screen is the speed indicator Zs 3. Set a digit from 1 to 9 and it lights together with green or yellow. Every train that passes the connected Create signal in its direction is then limited to digit × 10 % of its top speed. That holds until another signal or speed board says something else.

• The limit works only when the light signal is connected to a Create signal (Display Link or at the mast foot). It then works even when that area is not loaded.
• Technically CMR sets the train's throttle, the same value Create's schedule instruction for the throttle sets. Both overwrite each other; whatever was set last applies.
• Changing digit: a second Display Link on the line Zs 3 digit can deliver the digit. The last number in its text counts: 1 to 9 limit, anything else lifts the limit. While it delivers, it overrides the fixed setting. If the digit changes while a train is still in the section behind the signal, the new value applies to it at once.
• The digits can also be set from the signal box, in the Signals tab.

Distant signal line

A distant signal normally shows yellow when the Create signal it is connected to shows stop. When it should announce a signal further ahead instead, give it a second Display Link on the line Distant signal (next signal), placed on the next Create signal (or any source whose text means red, yellow or green):

• A pure distant signal then shows exactly what the next signal says: Ks 2 for stop, otherwise Ks 1.
• A combined signal (or an H/V main signal with distant signal) stays at stop if its own Create signal says so. At proceed it shows Ks 2 when the next signal shows stop, otherwise Ks 1.
• If the next signal is not loaded or reports nothing, the signal trusts its own state.

Good to know

• With ETCS, light signals go dark in front of a train under supervision, as on a real ETCS line; trains without ETCS see them as usual. See Train protection.
• Locking a signal at stop, the substitute signal (Zs 1) and routes are handled in the signal box: Interlocking.
• On a wall, under a ceiling, diagonally or on a gantry: see Masts and mounting and Signal gantries.