Example Screens

To view any of the screens described below, please just click the Thumbnail - and then the ‘Back’ button to return here!

The main MRTT screen is shown after the program loads. The Menu Options are mostly repeated on the toolbar. All screens have extensive context sensitive help, and you can get ‘tool tips’ by holding your mouse over a screen option.

The Parameters Screen - mostly self-explanatory. All fields have defaults, although you may wish to personalise Railway Name and Station to something other than ‘My Model Railway’ and ‘Station 1’!

Edit Item is where you create your Trains, Info Pages, Sounds and Scripted Announcements. This Train (the 0605 arrival at Haltwhistle from Heaton) has one associated Info Page. You will notice the two user-defined train columns - in this case being used for Preparation (from down storage road c front) and disposal (see special instructions). There is also an announcement

The next screens show some of the key screen types displayed to your admiring public during Run.When you select Run, you first get a Run Settings screen where you can change the defaults set up in Parameters (e.g. change Manual Skip to Auto Skip), then pressing OK starts the Run at the time you have specified.

Run - Text Screen. Within Edit Item there is a minimalist word processor, and you can also copy and paste from Word.

Run Picture Screen. For your information, it is me, my older brother John, now 73 ( 2009), my Mother and my Gran. The excuse is that the photograph was taken at Haltwhistle Station in 1940! The Title bar shows the run information - stopped in this case so that I can take a screen shot.

Train Cancellation. Finally, a case during Timetabled Mode where the Fat Controller has not confirmed completion of the train movement. In Timetabled Mode, trains are marked LATE and ultimately auto-cancelled with a suitable excuse if you fail to tell MRTT that your train has arrived/departed as appropriate! The excuse for the failure is taken from a random list of excuses. You have a default list of excuses used by British Railways in the thirty-four years I worked for them, but you can add your own.