Re:Trains

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Sorry in advance if this has been asked before but could someone tell
me why some trains in ttdlx keep going around and around and....... in
circles at a station (2 or more platforms)when I force it off or
another train pulls in it goes off on its merry way, pass back through
that same station to re-load then on the way back it does it old trick!!
would appreciate some assistance
cheers

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[Bill Hayles]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 03:49:21 GMT, grande...@my-deja.com wrote:

Sorry in advance if this has been asked before but could someone tell
me why some trains in ttdlx keep going around and around and....... in
circles at a station (2 or more platforms)when I force it off or
another train pulls in it goes off on its merry way, pass back through
that same station to re-load then on the way back it does it old trick!!
would appreciate some assistance
cheers

Was there once a depot beyond the platforms? I've had this when I built
a train in a depot on the platform end, which I subsequently demolished.
Even though there are other depots the train could use, it keeps
shunting from one platform to the other in an attempt to get to the no
longer existent depot.

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es

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In article <6i1t9sgj04gau0g2hpusupmv8qdhag9...@4ax.com>,
bill...@ctv.es wrote:

On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 03:49:21 GMT, grande...@my-deja.com wrote:

Sorry in advance if this has been asked before but could someone tell
me why some trains in ttdlx keep going around and around and.......

Was there once a depot beyond the platforms? I've had this when I
built
a train in a depot on the platform end, which I subsequently
demolished.
Even though there are other depots the train could use, it keeps
shunting from one platform to the other in an attempt to get to the no
longer existent depot.

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es
thanks for the reply Bill I'm not too sure if I did demolished a
depot but the train info when you click on it does not say it wants a

depot!! just from point a-b but thinking about your reply it makes
sense so how did you overcome that problem( delete that train!!..yes)
cheers

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[Bill Hayles]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 02:18:08 GMT, grande...@my-deja.com wrote:

thanks for the reply Bill I'm not too sure if I did demolished a
depot but the train info when you click on it does not say it wants a
depot!! just from point a-b but thinking about your reply it makes
sense so how did you overcome that problem( delete that train!!..yes)
cheers

I overcame the depot problem by increasing the time between services, so
the train went merrily on its way. I then forced it into the new depot,
which it subsequently "remembered".

But thinking about your problem again, ISTR having something similar
myself which I sorted by simply telling the train to skip the station.
Or maybe even deleting all the stations from its route and entering them
again. It might be an idea to pause it while you're doing it, as it
will otherwise do funny things, but once you release it again it might
then set off on course.

The AI in TTD can do funny things at times!

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es

[Stevie D]

grande...@my-deja.com wrote:

Sorry in advance if this has been asked before but could someone tell
me why some trains in ttdlx keep going around and around and....... in
circles at a station (2 or more platforms)when I force it off or
another train pulls in it goes off on its merry way, pass back through
that same station to re-load then on the way back it does it old trick!!
would appreciate some assistance
cheers

I'm not sure I can quite visualise what you mean here, but I'll have a
go ...

Are you sure it has another destination to go to? I've done that loads
of times; either somehow 'missed' when I told it to go to suchandsuch a
station, or thought "I'll go back and sort that out in a minute" ... but
I never do!

If the exit track from the station is "occupied", ie has a red signal,
that might cause your train to just head for any green signal. This
might only be true if they are all bi-directional, I'm not sure.

If the exit track you want the train to take goes off in the "wrong"
direction for the next destination station, this might confuse the train
if the next station is a long way off, and it might try to take the
"shortest route" which happens to be back through the station. But it
can't do that, so it goes round again, and comes up against the same
problem.

HTH

If it doesn't, I'll try again!

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In article <389F7B18.1EF99...@york.ac.oook>,
Stevie D <sjd...@york.ac.oook> wrote:

grande...@my-deja.com wrote:

HTH

If it doesn't, I'll try again!

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