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Example: Manual Control of Station Exit
The exit of the hidden yard shall be controlled manually in the following way: it shall
be possible to select the train, which is to be started by a schedule, by selecting the
track, from which the train shall start.
Diagram 145: Manual Control of Station Exit
The most simple solution is to assign an operation, that starts the schedule, to the operations
of each route, 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 12.3, “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 has been explained on page 141.
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 12.6, “Macros”) and the possibility to
lock the exit of each block (see page 110). For each track and each possible path a
separate macro is defined. Additionally, the exits of each block in “Hidden Yard” are
held locked by default. This can be done by manually locking all exits manually at the
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