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a direct move is performed in all cases, i.e. the fastest (shortest) possible move to reach
the destination track. The bridge is assumed to be occupied if the indicator element associated
with the bridge is turned on. If no indicator element is associated with the
bridge, then the specified move is performed anyway.
Since a direct move is more prototypical in cases where no engine is located on the
bridge, it is recommended to assign a feedback indicator to the bridge, if possible.
Otherwise TrainController is not able to determine if the bridge is free or not
while deciding to perform a direct move or not. Without a feedback indicator assigned
to the bridge TrainController will never perform a direct move when under
control of the Dispatcher.
Usually you will also associate a block of the Dispatcher with the bridge of an
automatically operated turntable. Stop indicators assigned to this block are
needed to stop each engine automatically at the correct location on the bridge.
The only other thing you will have to do is to adjust the turn boundary carefully. The
rest is done automatically by the software. In the usual case where a turntable is located
in front of a roundhouse you will adjust the turn boundary in a way that the accessing
tracks are located on one side of the turn boundary and the roundhouse is located on the
other. In the diagrams displayed above you can assume that three accessing tracks are
located on the left side of the turn boundary and the roundhouse is located on the right
side.
More generally the following rule applies: if the tracks connected to a turntable are associated
with blocks, then the blocks located on one side of the turn boundary face the
turntable with their right exit, the blocks on the other side of the turn boundary face the
turntable with their left exit. This is illustrated in the following diagram:
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