management of double tracks/train circulations – Train Fever /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/feed/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:17:26 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.13 en-US /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1663 <![CDATA[management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1663 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:06:44 +0000 bafouu I hope that we can tell to trains which track it should use for their route. It is very important for the game in terms of realism and to facilitate management of trains and tracks when several trains have to use several tracks.

Two exemples to show this :

– If 2 trains call at the same station with two platforms, but Train A can use both platforms whereas Train B can use only Platform 1, then it would be great to make Train A always stop at Platform 2 so that Train B is able to stop at the station even if Train A is already there.

The second exemple concerns double tracks. We know that in that case trains run on the left or on the right depending on the country.

– Let us consider 3 towns, A, B and C. There is a long double track starting in A that split in two single tracks when it arrives near B and C. One track goes to B, the other to C.

Two trains use the network : Train 1 links A to B, Train 2 links A to C. The first option to make it work is to assign one track to one train, that means they will never meet since they stay in their own track dedicated to them.

The second option is the realistic one : thanks to crossovers where the double track splits, the double track could be use with one track for one way of circulation and trains would use both tracks, depending on the direction they go, either to A or to B and C. This option is definitely the right option in my opinion, so we should be able to give a direction to a track so that trains don’t use it in the wrong way !

 

Tell me if it is not clear ! (that is not native-English written…) Will Train Fever have such features ? The game is already very impressive, but that is a crucial point to have realistic train circulations !

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1664 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1664 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:50:51 +0000 Axel Springer Please make a picture 🙂

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1665 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1665 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:05:20 +0000 bafouu Well, please excuse my poor drawing skills.

What I want to say is that 1st option is without the red crossovers, each train stays on its own track (green arrows) whereas in the 2nd scenario, the crossovers enables a normal circulation, with trains leaving A on one  track and entering it on the other. That is real life.

Is it clearer ?

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1666 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1666 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:05:51 +0000 bafouu Sorry, I can’t display any picture on the site, it has to have a URL adress…

Just imagine 3 towns at the 3 edges of a Y with the longest branch of the Y being double track and the others only one track.

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1668 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1668 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:56:58 +0000 bafouu

I got the time to try a new thing. I hope it will work this time

The explanations of the picture :

What I want to say is that 1st option is without the red crossovers, each train stays on its own track (green arrows) whereas in the 2nd scenario, the crossovers enables a normal circulation, with trains leaving A on one  track and entering it on the other. That is real life.

Is it clearer ?

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1669 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1669 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:18:23 +0000 Axel Springer Here we go, nice picture 🙂

So i dont know for 100%, but i think that should work.  Maybe with a way-point.

But you need a switch point by A, right? Than can the train change the track

and drive out.

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1670 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1670 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:56:57 +0000 admin Yes this should work if you’re going to build the track changes. Otherwise the train cannot switch between the tracks.

]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1674 <![CDATA[Reply To: management of double tracks/train circulations]]> /forums/topic/management-of-double-trackstrain-circulations/#post-1674 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:35:13 +0000 bafouu Okay fine ! 🙂

However Axel Springer has raised a interesting point : are way-points available in Train Fever ?

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