Level crossing help

[TonkaCarl]

See, I need help with a question of mine since I don't know much about the game.

How do you make level crossings without trains crashing into each other. I tried helping my sister by putting a colourlight before one track before the crossing and the train waited for heaps long before turning around. After this, I tried taking the colourlight out and that didn't work because they crashed.

Please Help!

[Owen-Alexander]

Well if you can try to avoid crossings unless you have a good system but if not try a bridge over on of the tracks

[Twiggy]

One way to do it, if you are running one train on each of the tracks, is to do the following:

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I think the way you did it, the train waiting didn't know when the section was clear due to there not being another signal on each side of the crossing.
A more basic (but more expensive) way to do it, is Owen's way. Make a bridge and avoid all interaction altogether.
I hope that helps.

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[Kevo00]

Its best to avoid railways crossing each other on the level, because of the jams that it creates - you can do as illustrated above, but it will create jams as trains always have to wait for each other first.

Also be careful when resignalling in Loco - the train drivers don't notice at first, get confused, and end up colliding. The only way around it is to pay attention to the first trains to go through a new formation after you change it.

[TonkaCarl]

Thanks!