TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

• In cases, where a specific block or route will always be passed with the same signal
indication, it is much more convenient to preselect the indication once for all schedules
in the properties of the block or route.
• The possibility to preselect a signal on the level of turnouts is useful, if specific turnouts
will always be passed with the same signal indication. It is much more convenient
to preselect this indication once for all routes and schedules, which use this
turnout, in the properties of the turnout, rather than being forced, to repeat the same
selection in all affected routes or schedules.
• The possibility to specify differing signal indications for the particular positions of a
turnout is useful, if the indication of the calculated signal will depend on the turnout
position.
• The signal indication preselected for a block, route or turnout is also applied to
trains run by AutoTrain. In other versions of TrainController the signal indication
for trains run by AutoTrain is always green in all blocks or routes and
cannot be changed.
As outlined earlier there is a close connection between calculated block signals and
speed limits. The allowed speed of a train depends on the currently valid signal indication
(green or yellow). While other versions of TrainController only allow to specify
speed limits on the level of blocks, TrainController Gold allows to specify speed
limits also on the level of schedules, routes and even turnout positions. The hierarchy of
the various settings is similar to that of the signal settings described above. To calculate
the speed limit for a certain route or block in a schedule, TrainController Gold at
first determines the speed limit specified for this block or route in the settings of the
schedule. Additionally the speed limit preset in the properties of the block or route is
determined, too. In the case of a route the speed limits for the according positions of all
turnouts contained in this route are determined, too. The final speed limit results from
the minimum of all determined limits. If no speed limit is specified for a certain object
in this chain, then the settings of this object do not affect the resulting speed limit.
The possibility to preset speed limits on the level of routes or turnouts provides the
same advantages as listed above. Especially it is possible with TrainController
Gold to propagate speed limits valid for a certain position of a turnout to all affected
schedules and also to trains run by AutoTrain.
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Temporary Speed Limits
A temporary speed limit can be accomplished by executing a specific train operation,
e.g. by a marker in a block. Temporary speed limits can be applied for trains running
under control of a schedule, AutoTrain or interlocking.