(Tl;dr: ok, now I see it was my bad, but isn't this exaggerated?)I see. Thank you.
I usually only reduce the power when passing under those points, I know it's not correct but what are 50A going to do.
This time I was slightly late and I was accelerating at 600A, keeping my eyes on the ammeter and glancing at the tracks. Only now, looking at the screen, I realize that signal was not a backwards
We9a as I thought, which is placed some 100-200m before the
We8 for trains in my direction, but rather it was the We9a for my direction, meaning I already passed the backwards We9a and, most importantly, the We8 for my direction.
So, I can now see my fault in this.
Also, when someone in the chat asked for We8, I thought he wanted to type
W8, which does make a lot of sense in that context - and the E is near the W in a QWERTY keyboard. I now checked
this great page from the TD2 Wiki aaand I learned something today.
Now, isn't this a little... excessive? In real life, what would happen if a train driver ignored such signals and behaved (badly) like me?
I don't know why these signals are needed in the first place, since in Italy we don't have anything like that. We do have similar signals for trams, though, and when drivers ignore them you see a huge spark from the pantograph. Fun stuff!