If they're coming in from opposite ends you can just stick a platform section in instead of the crossover, but if they're both heading in the same direction a switch like this will let them go around each other. The gap left in the station track so you can use regular track for the switch (that's how I do it anyway) splits the platform into two terminals, so you can have two trains stopping on what would otherwise be the same 'track'. The express can easily swap onto platform 2 and carry on. On platform 4 another local is picking up so instead the express is redirected to go through platform 3 (opposite 1). and that +350 mill you had quite rapidly becomes -350 mill.Īt station 2 the local stop at platform 1īehind it is the express, the express cannot pass because of the local. just stop dead in tracks and say there's another train in the way and you'll have a queue of 30 trains all sitting idle full of passengers. Then when the station is free, use the proper route instead. if you make the platforms long enough the trains don't stop as far down the platform if they're quite short.

Incoming trains will switch to another track and pass the waiting train. Is it not better to put crossovers at either end of the platform but outside the station before the trains get in there so they can switch tracks at that point and not within the station? Originally posted by Irvsax:What is the benefit of putting in the actual station? Once a train is on the platform and blocking it, surely it doesnt matter if there is a crossover or not, the track is blocked?

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