TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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When a schedule is started, the Dispatcher searches the starting (destination) blocks of
the schedule until it finds a current block of a train, which is not already running on
another schedule.
If there is no such block then the Dispatcher can optionally continue the search in other
blocks, that are located on the path from a starting to a destination block (or back) to
find a train that can be started from there. The attributes of each schedule contain an option
with which you can specify, whether the Dispatcher may start a train from other
blocks than the explicitly marked starting (destination) blocks or not.
If no train is found on a block of the schedule or all trains are already running other
schedules then the start of the schedule fails. It is possible to specify a time period for
which the Dispatcher repeatedly tries to start the schedule, if the first attempt to start the
schedule fails.
A schedule is always started with one train. If you want to start the same schedule
with several trains, then the start of the schedule must be executed several times
according to the number of trains to be started. This repeated start can be automated
by Operations of Buttons and Macros (see section 14.4,
“Operations”).
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Reservation of Blocks and Routes
When a train is started on a schedule, the Dispatcher tries to reserve at least the current
block and the next block in front of the train. Also, when a train enters a block, the
block ahead is reserved.