Posted 17 April 2024 - 04:02 AM
Hello.
There are two options. 1. Creating real freight train traffic
2. Creation of fictitious freight train traffic.
1. To create real freight train traffic, one or more service schedules are required. No matter how strange and unbelievable, freight trains also have a schedule. In the 1st picture, I underlined the stops with a red line. These time data must be entered in the cells at the intersection of the train number (service file name) column and the station name row.
https://kephost.net/p/MTE4OTkxMg.png
2. In order to create fictitious freight train traffic, the graphic equivalent of passenger train traffic must be created. Then you can see between which two passenger trains a freight train can be inserted. Based on the graphic diagram, you can enter the time data in the cells at the intersection of the train number (service file name) column and the station name row. It can also be done by trial and error. A lot of work, a lot of time. Monitoring and recording real traffic can be helpful (if possible).
The second and third pictures show a detail of a timetable based on a real timetable. The freight trains here are fictitious, based on the creator's memories. There is no service schedule from that time. The timetable was prepared by Károly Németh for the Balaton Dél route. Freight trains wait at individual stations because either a train is coming directly or a train of a higher rank is ahead of it. The waiting time for train number 1280 (service name) at Siófok station is 10 minutes. That's why you got a $Forcehold command here. This can be important on a single-track track. Due to other passing trains, it is not advisable to use it in the place recommended in the manual.
There are two possibilities for the practical implementation of reversing movements.
https://kephost.net/p/MTE4OTkxNA.png
1. The train is short, only a few cars. In this case, the matter can be solved with translation points.
2. The arriving train must be shared. In this case, since the station name is usually only one line, the train number (service name) must also be changed at some point. The moving cars are detached from the locomotive of the arriving train. These get a new train number.
For some reason, the creator is angry about the translation points, so he solved all the direction changes by dropping the train number ( service file name ) and introducing a new train number. The locomotive of the train pulls out with a couple of carriages towards the open line or towards the dedicated pull-out track, and then pushes back onto the loading track. This is where the cars hang from it, then the locomotive returns to the front of the train and is attached to it with the $attach command. Meanwhile, the reversing locomotive at the station adds cars to the end of the train, then detaches from it and disappears.
https://kephost.net/p/MTE4OTkxMQ.png
It has many unnecessary columns. It can be solved more easily with translation points. 4 columns would be enough, so that the station reversing locomotive remains visible and receives the appropriate train number for its next task.
This is a very bad example, that's why I'm posting it.
Sincerely, Laci1959