Is there any way to set waypoints?

[maleen]

I have a circular route connecting stations, say A,B and C. The trains need to go in the order A-->B-->C-->A. I need the train to go in the same direction throught the route. But when i set it up, the train starts in A & goes to B, but without continuing in the same direction it goes to C in reverse. (i.e. it doesn't use the track which directly connects B & C)
This is real headache as i want to run multiple trains in the same circular track, but when this happens sometimes the trains run in opposite directions.
Is there any way to solve this like setting a waypoint between B & C, so that the train goes through that point without stopping.

 

[Jobeo]

no ... there isn't... but really its not needed... don't make such complex routes... the easiest money maker is going from point A to B and back again... if you want to connect C then draw a track from A to C as well...

 

[Lyciss]

Have you tried recreating your routes?

If you want two trains to go to the same direction try this.

Start one train at A -> B -> C

Start second train at B -> C -> A

I have been successful getting trains to start on the right tracks and head in the right direction simply by playing with their routes.

One of my methods is to use a middle line that does not cross into any other tracks as my passenger line. Then use a line on either side of the passenger line as my freight. I will try to maintain trains heading only one direction per track since it is much easier to tell how many trains are using that paticular track. If you have many trains going both directions on a line it is difficult to know when bottlenecks may appear or delays. The only draw back with my method is more money spent on track and the tracks must be a complete loop. Plan ahead and there is far less deleting or connecting problems later.

 

[Mr Spoon]

There are two ways I can think of:

1) If your track goes next to/near a resource, make it stop there, but pick up/set down nothing. I did this on the french tutorial and it made my TGV go on the correct route, simply passing by the resource - not even stopping!

2) Not sure if this is what you want but, lets say you have a circular track. Think of a clock face, Station A = 12, Station B = 4, Station C = 8. It's a double track and you want two trains doing the same route?
Start one at Station A going to B then C, but before the train has time to move off from Station A, make another one. As the primary platform is taken up by the first train then the second one will automatically be on the other one and they will never cross.

After reading more carefully, then I realised the above isn't what you asked But i will leave it up as a bit more of a resource.
Look near the end of Station B and check the track is clear. Sometimes I have had the little board because the track isnt connected up properly. If the track is totally clear then try the #1 method above to force it to go up there. That or what Lyciss said - although starting another train at Station A won't help as you say they are doubling back on temselves, so start them at B and C and see if it works.

Remember to let us know the outcome

Peter

 

[maleen]

Thanks for all your replies guys, but i don't think most of you understood my problem.
Lets take this example,
Station A has a Grain farm, B has a food plant, and C is a city which demands food. Now say the farm and the plant are large ones. If its a straight line which connects these 3 stations, i can only run a maximum of 1 train in the route. If I double track a couple of times & somehave managed to get some trains on to them, it wouldn't be much lucrative. So what i tried to do was create a circular "single line" track connecting the 3 stations, and run some 7 to 8 trains in the same direction.

After some playing around, i figures out this much.

Taking the clock face example, If the stations are in 12, 4 & 8, it works exactly as intended when it reaches station C ( which is at 8'o'clock) by going to 12 though 9,10,... ( and not by 7,6....,2,1) .

But the problem is if the stations are in 1,5 & 12. After coming to 5, instead of going in the clockwise direction to 12, it turns around and goes through the anti-clockwise direction (which is obviously shorter, but will block the other trains ).

Now what i did was to lengthen the track from 1-5, longer than the track from 5-12. It solved the routing problem, but didn't help much as it made an already long route, much longer.