Crossover train rails

[UnTioAhi]

Hello, I'm trying to understand how to do diamond crossovers

I tried it very hard no success, it always say, construction is not possible

The terrain is flat, and the curve is 0º

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369352505

Thanks in advance

[Soylent_Greene]

first off, you should give yourself a lot more room before the station... If the train is too long and cannot clear the switch both sides will be jammed up

Second, make the X crossing much longer, like at least 8 track sections

third, once you have created the crossing make sure you click on it, and activate it, or it won't work

[larry_roberts]

I've been playing this game for years, and I still find it difficult.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Try building it further away from the station, I think this is the issue in this case.

Sometimes starting from the other way around does the trick.

Worst comes to worst, you can always do a couple of single switches instead of a scissor crossover.

[numbat]

I have some 2000 hours in the game and still find it near impossible sometimes to draw those damn scissor crossings.

More often than not, I will jump to this mod. Just note, by default is uses an N crossing, not an X crossing, so you need to remember to click the X crossing.

Cheers,
Chris.

P.S. The track ladders are very useful as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2325116414&searchtext=patterns

[RadiKyle]

Hi, unfortunately the Fall update made it more difficult to make double-crossovers (some would say buggy). It will fail a lot so just try dragging it in the other direction instead, or changing which piece is built first.

Can also report an issue to official support here so they're more aware that it needs a maintenance patch:
https://www.transportfever2.com/support/help-desk/
(blue button lower right)

[RadiKyle]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

third, once you have created the crossing make sure you click on it, and activate it, or it won't work

Wouldn't be needed here, it's only for double-slip switches.

[UnTioAhi]

Originally posted by numbat:

I have some 2000 hours in the game and still find it near impossible sometimes to draw those damn scissor crossings.

More often than not, I will jump to this mod. Just note, by default is uses an N crossing, not an X crossing, so you need to remember to click the X crossing.

Cheers,
Chris.

P.S. The track ladders are very useful as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2325116414&searchtext=patterns

This mod worked like a charm, it just makes intersection way easier to do, the game seems "buggy" from my viewpoint in that aspect, It's the first game I have this kind of problems, I have created many trains in other games with no problems (soviet workers, cities skyline and factorio)

Thanks!, now I will try to understand how signals work there,as I want trains to go EU driving style, and only allow bidirectional to cross the X intersection

[RadiKyle]

Originally posted by UnTioAhi:

This mod worked like a charm, it just makes intersection way easier to do, the game seems "buggy" from my viewpoint in that aspect, It's the first game I have this kind of problems, I have created many trains in other games with no problems (soviet workers, cities skyline and factorio)

Thanks!, now I will try to understand how signals work there,as I want trains to go EU driving style, and only allow bidirectional to cross the X intersection

As mentioned above, the problems with building double crossover tracks are new, added by the final game update that was released this fall. Before that (game Build 35732) they were easy to make and would only occasionally be annoying, usually when building them on curves. But after the Fall update (current Build 35915) they fail to build much more often, repeatably. It seems that when they introduced the new track building guide features they broke something.

As for signals, here's the wiki manual if you need it:
https://www.transportfever2.com/wiki/doku.php?id=gamemanual:railwaysignals