TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

Train groups can contain other train groups, too. In this way the train group of all passenger
trains can contain the group of all local trains and the group of all express trains.
For each block, route or schedule it is additionally possible to specify a condition. This
is a condition, which must be valid when the block is reserved, the route is activated or
the schedule is started. As long as the condition does not apply it is not possible to use
the block, route or schedule. How conditions work is outlined in section 14.3,
“Protection and Locking with Conditions”.
This feature provides additional control. It is for example possible to specify, that a certain
schedule may only be used, if a certain on/off switch is toggled off. Turning off or
on this switch you can intervene into the traffic flow at any time and lock or release the
affected schedule. It is not possible to start a locked schedule.
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Train Guidance based on Train Length
The length of locomotives, cars and train sets can affect, how schedules are executed.
For this purpose it is possible to specify a maximum train length for each block. This
maximum train length describes, up to which length trains fit into the particular block.
Together with the length specified for each train and car or calculated for each train set,
respectively, TrainController Gold can determine, whether a train fits into a particular
block or not.
This is used to accomplish the following goals:
• Trains can be prevented from driving to destination blocks of schedules, which are
shorter than the length of the train.
• Trains can be prevented from performing unscheduled stops in blocks, which are
shorter than the length of the train. If such blocks are reserved by longer trains, then
these blocks will be treated in a similar way like critical blocks.
• Trains can be prompted to prefer the shortest destination block, which is long
enough to store the train.
The features listed above can be activated by specifying a maximum train length for the
concerning blocks and by checking certain schedule rules.
These features are in particular very useful in conjunction with train sets, that change
their formation during operation. If such changes also affect the length of the train set,
then this may change the destination, to which trains run or where trains perform un-