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Manual Operation
The branch line from “Southtown” to “Northville” and back will be operated manually.
All precautions for train tracking have been already done by integrating the blocks of
the branch line into the main block diagram accordingly.
Trains waiting in “Southtown” and bound to “Northville” will release block “Southtown
2” as soon as they leave “Southtown”. They will be automatically tracked to
“Northville” and back. All is done by proper drawing of the main block diagram, no
further actions are needed. A train that comes from “Northtown” and arrives in “Southtown”
will automatically reserve block “Southtown 2” again.
From there it can be started by the schedule shown in the previous section and automatically
travel to the “Hidden Yard”. This can even be done automatically on arrival in
“Southtown” without further intervention by the human operator.
Further Steps
Now the framework has been completed, we can add varied operation.
It is for example possible to assign the schedule to the operations of a push button symbol
in a switchboard in order to start automatic operation manually when desired.
Another schedule can be added with “Southtown 2” as destination block. This schedule
will lead a train to “Southtown 2” where it can be taken over to perform a manually operated
travel to “Northville”.
It is also possible to start the schedules created here according to a time table.
A hint in case you have configured endless automatic operation: by adding a global onoff
switch symbol located somewhere in a Switchboard to the conditions of some or all
of your schedules you can implement a global power off mechanism. Lets assume that
the schedules can only be started, if this global on-off switch is on. If this switch is
turned off during automatic operation then all trains will finish the run of the current
schedule and will not start another run of any schedule that is restricted by this on-off
switch. In this way you can smoothly shut-down your automatic operation in a very
clean way.
These and more advanced techniques will be explained in Part III of this Users Guide.