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Example: Manual Control of Station Exit
The exit of the hidden yard will be controlled manually in the following way: it will be
possible to select the train, which is to be started by a schedule, by selecting the track,
from which the train will start.
Diagram 165: Manual Control of Station Exit
The most simple solution is to assign an operation, that starts the schedule, to the operations
of all routes, that connect the blocks in “Hidden Yard” with the blocks “Main Line
East” or “Main Line West”, respectively. Details about operations can be found in section
14.4, “Operations”. Instead of starting the schedule directly we activate the route.
Through the operations of the route the schedule is started after activation of the route.
This configuration additionally uses a trick, that was explained on page 182. When selecting
one or several alternatives to start or continue a schedule TrainController
prefers to select an alternative that prefers an already activated route. Since we activate
the desired route first before the schedule is started, the activated route will be selected
as the route to be used by the schedule and the train waiting in the block next to this
route will be started.
An alternative solution uses macros (see section 14.7, “Macros”) and the possibility to
lock the exit of each block (see page 146). For each track and each possible path a separate
macro is defined. Additionally, the exits of each block in “Hidden Yard” are held