Train stops at stations, wont go pass

[Rich]

I've started building a railway, and so far it's not working great. The train can take off at the 'start' station, but once it comes to the next station on the line, it stops and wont go past it. If I deconstruct the locomotive and construct it a few meters ahead, past the next station, then it can move fine - until the next one where the same thing happens.

The railway is connected so that's not it either. How to fix this?

[HuMaNgUtAn]

The first thing to check is to make sure the train stations are facing in the correct direction. The key piece of information needed to understand train stations is that the arrow indicates which direction the train must enter the station in order to stop there.

[Kel]

First make sure you're using the signals correctly....

With that being said. the hotfix patch the did just recently introduce another bug because my trains arn't work anymore either even though they were working perfectly for 100's of hours

[HuMaNgUtAn]

Originally posted by Kelemvor:

With that being said. the hotfix patch the did just recently introduce another bug because my trains arn't work anymore either even though they were working perfectly for 100's of hours

I've heard this a lot and I think it must have to do with the "new" signals system. I only have simple update 4 style trains in my world, single tracks with single trains, no signals and they still work perfectly.

It sounds like the OP has just started building a simple railway, no signals required and so should be able to get it working just fine.

[Rich]

Originally posted by HuMaNgUtAn:

Originally posted by Kelemvor:

With that being said. the hotfix patch the did just recently introduce another bug because my trains arn't work anymore either even though they were working perfectly for 100's of hours

I've heard this a lot and I think it must have to do with the "new" signals system. I only have simple update 4 style trains in my world, single tracks with single trains, no signals and they still work perfectly.

It sounds like the OP has just started building a simple railway, no signals required and so should be able to get it working just fine.

Yep, exactly this.. I'm not using any stop signals, i've verified that the stations are facing the correct direction. In fact, later on in the railway, it works fine even though tracks and stations are placed exactly the same as the earlier ones..

[Booneblaster]

did you make sure the train schedule is accurate? can't recall, but might need to assign a destination to your second station.

[MJS WARLORD]

Another thing for you to check ...... i relaid a rail track because it had lots of curves and looked silly , when i put the train on auto it could not "find" the next station , i walked the length of track and found a very small gap in the rail , i relaid that section and all worked as it should , unlike conveyors it is possible to lay a piece of track without it actually been connected to another bit , this can happen if like me you click the track then hover pack over a gap in the terrain so i was not aware of the tiny gap until it did not work

[chriede]

Hello, everything you say here is nice, but why is everything running perfectly before the update of April 28th, 2022 and now nothing more!
I even have only a short distance left without signals, only two stations and the train does not start.....
Satis uninstalled and reinstalled, nothing since the update.....

[XistenZ]

Can you drive it manually all the way, without reconstructing it? As someone mentioned you might have a gap, probably not connected to the station it gets stuck at.
If you drive manually it should just do a total halt at the bad rail

[chriede]

I can drive the train manually on all routes without it stopping, as soon as I set it to automatic it stops.

[MJS WARLORD]

like i said earlier you need to walk the track for gaps , look at the track AND the round bars on the edge of the track , if something does not look right just try re laying it

[umop-apisdn]

A couple quick troubleshooting questions:

Do you have locomotives facing both directions on your train? The trains will only drive "forward" on autopilot, so you'll need to have "forward"-facing locomotives.

The station direction also matters; You'll need to have the station facing in the same direction as the train will travel in order to have the train be able to autopilot to it.

Some ASCII diagramming, in an attempt to elucidate my meaning:
(< and > indicate "forward" direction of locomotives and/or stations)

Given a train shaped like this:
<OengineO[freight][freight][freight][freight]OengineO>

And given that your track and stations are laid out like this:
<station_A[platform][platform][platform][platform]...[platform][platform][platform][platform]station_B>...[platform][platform][platform][platform]station_C>

Assuming a single rail line with no signals whatsoever, you can set an autopilot program to go A > B > C > A, and there will be no issues.
However, you cannot go C > B > A > C, because the station directions do not match those travel directions.

One possible workaround is to make all your stations like this:
<station[platform][platform][platform][platform]station>

This would enable bi-directional travel for every station.

[chriede]

I still have a map.....2 trains on the same route, 3 stations. Everything runs without problems, unless they collide. If I set path signals to avoid it, both trains stop at the next path signal and are no longer given clearance.

[chriede]

I have a two track system

[chriede]

without signals, every train goes its own way to the station, with signals, everything stops

[Rich]

I was talking manual drive, it's not working. I havent even tried auto-pilot yet, doubt that will work better though.