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Improvements around the Spaghetti Junction

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 20:18
by scorpioprise
Hi everybody!

I found that my favourite junction is the so called https://wiki.openttd.org/Spaghetti.
But it lacked a little in capacity, so I tried improving it, in my way. I also reviewed the variants, but none fitted my "style" :mrgreen:
After a bit of study I could build it without the need of the U turns, so here is my suggested improvement.
This is the basic style, tunnel only.
The only long unsignaled track is the underpass, of course.
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Re: Improvements around the Spaghetti Junction

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 20:25
by scorpioprise
..... aaaand, as it could be a good idea, here I show you my double mainline MeatBallSpaghetti junction!
This had space enough to fit also some U-turns, I will work a little to insert the missing ones
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Re: Improvements around the Spaghetti Junction

Posted: 11 Sep 2020 02:58
by Eddi
i'm having a few questions:
  1. which problems is this meant to solve?
  2. how does it solve them?
  3. where's all the trains?
  4. why is this in the suggestions forum?

Re: Improvements around the Spaghetti Junction

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 19:45
by scorpioprise
well, so many questions...let me answer randomly :mrgreen:

4: I've not understood where it shall be posted to show my junction :oops:

3: I'ts built "offline" for show sake, whitout connections to the rail network;

1: The original Spaghetti Junction has, IMHO, a problem in having the U function in 2 lines, which leads sometimes to some unnecessary occupation of the junction and lines.

2: My first goal was to remove the U function and separate the fluxes to handle more trains a time (as direct paths are implemented).

As bonus, I could handle a 4xdual mainline with only one spaghetti junction :rolleyes: