Transport Fever 2 - How To Use Signals 

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I know that you wrote it 2 years ago but what is the difference between one way and two way. I don't get it

@@browl218 one-way makes it so that the train only can go into the direction of the arrow. In this video, the cargo track he put down is a two-way. If he were to make it a one-way, the train wouldn't have a way back. He'd have to put down another track going the opposite direction.

You can see this on the swiss made mission

Clever!

Yes, but when you want to add trains later on, for example from 2 go to 3 trains, the sections don't work out. You then need to move all the signals. Als when a train needs to move trough your line as you are redeploying it or you only have a train depot far away, it messes up the perfect schedule. Hense I go for signals near stations, when tracks merge or cross amd break up long stretches of track. I try to keep the streches of similar lengjt though. As a rule you should have atleast as many sections as trains, but the same number and all of exactly the same lenght is for the ideal world and in reality, sometimes/often things get messy. ;)

@@erikwillems6466 Not necessarily. If you have trains which are traveling at equal speed then you won't have a problem. Sure, they might not be perfectly spaced out, but I personally don't care for that.

Ah yes, they should have an equal speed. But that is the theoretical situation where everything is perfect. In actuality, yerrein differences cause slopes and curves modifying the speed at certain parts so tracks shouldn't be of equal lenght. But the real problem occurs when you go to the extreme, 2 trains and 2 tracks. Then the third train that is "just passing trough" once, will cause all kinds of conflicts. While more signals would make your network more robust.

Not sure what you mean when you say "the new signals" they seem to be very much like they were in transport fever 1

True. The station have a signal built in.

@@Stealth17Gaming it's not that the station has a built in signal, but the fact that the train now has a clear route to it's destination or the next signal. Here's a little demonstration I made: i.imgur.com/xawYpvs.jpeg As the 1st train clears the intersection going left, the second train that will go straight receives a green signal and starts moving even though both trains are technically on the same section of the track - there are no other signals on this track and none of the trains are in a station. If, however, the second train was also going left on the intersection, the signal would remain red. Also, I don't think there's any real way to give priority of one track over the other. In your example of an intersection between passenger and cargo trains, if the cargo train is going through the intersection the passenger trains will still have to wait either inside the station or at the section signal on the other side. In this situation I would put the signals on the passenger line as close as possible to the intersection so that, if passenger trains do have to wait until cargo clears the intersection, they will occupy as little track as possible and minimise chances of affecting other trains. For example, there are two passenger trains - one in the station, and another one waiting to go into the station. If we put signals as close to the intersection as possible, the 1st train will go up to this signal and wait for the cargo train to pass, while also allowing the 2nd train to enter the station. Otherwise the 2nd train will be waiting for the 1st train to clear the station while the 1st train is waiting in the station for the cargo train to clear the intersection.

I forgot to add that the reason I mention this, is that a selection of a track, can have several "blocks" within it. so using the word selection can be misleading.

and yet you don't comment on how he pronouced Clitheroe-eee

@@afacelessname1378 lol I know and some others. But who cares, he is speaking English which is not his native tongue, so give him credit.

@@afacelessname1378 Could have been worse I guess...

This game doesn't need quite as much faffing with signals as Factorio does, Factorio signalling would be overkill for this game. In this game it's quite clever already and you only really need a few signals along a long two-way route. There's no need to put them in and out of stations, or at all crossings etc.

i noted this thing too

Glad to hear it! Happy training :)

You have to choose the platform in the line configuration

not sure what you mean by have 2 tracks. He basically built that if you mean 2 separate complete tracks with stops he had 3 trains after adding the signals. 1 train per full track will always work. but if you ever have more then one train on a track you need signals or it wont work. It is cheaper to understand signals and have 5 trains on 2 tracks then have 5 trains and 5 tracks.

if he had 2 complete tracks you basically just add another line and switch it to the other track. but again you could only have 2 trains. 1 per complete line

if its a bug turning the train can help. this resets the train and it looks again if it can pass. What also could be a problem is that you placed the signal AFTER the lines merged into one line. This would mean the train waiting blocks the only exit and the other train can't go to the other rail.

I have this same problem and I cant figure out why it happens. Ive had it happen multiple times now. Ive made sure my signals aren't too close to where the single track splits into 2

Might be the era. You can (usually) turn it off on the right hand side panel.

A more useful comment would to then provide correct info, as opposed to just saying "this is wrong"

@@Stealth17Gaming At 6:10 you say that the train will wait at the signal untill the other train passes the signal on the track next to it. This is not correct. As soon as the train leaves the switch at the station, the waiting train can go.

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The passing point is pretty handy, can double your capacity for cheap without having to run 2 tracks for the entire line and can be upgraded by adding more passing points and eventually just connecting the passes together to form a second track