loading and stopping at passengers stations
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AI controlled trains will only stop at stations that are passenger enabled - they work like industry enable assets but load/unload passengers. Passenger enabled stations will appear in the driver command "Drive to/Navigate to" lists.
Unfortunately it is no longer easy to tell which station assets are passenger enabled or not - in 2006 they had a green tick icon in the surveyor asset selection windows. Some still do but many do not. Usually, these stations come with their own track. There are a number of invisible passenger enabled stations (with the letters "AJS" in their name) that simply replace the track at an existing non-passenger station and provide it with the ability to load/unload passengers.
Once you have placed a station on the layout, click the "?" tool and click the station to see the information/control window. If it contains passenger options and controls then the station/track asset is passenger enabled.
Peter Ware
Unfortunately it is no longer easy to tell which station assets are passenger enabled or not - in 2006 they had a green tick icon in the surveyor asset selection windows. Some still do but many do not. Usually, these stations come with their own track. There are a number of invisible passenger enabled stations (with the letters "AJS" in their name) that simply replace the track at an existing non-passenger station and provide it with the ability to load/unload passengers.
Once you have placed a station on the layout, click the "?" tool and click the station to see the information/control window. If it contains passenger options and controls then the station/track asset is passenger enabled.
Peter Ware
Here's the command line I use for my Miyabi Coastline route stations:
Drive to (station name)
Unload
Load
Drive to (next station)
If you want it to wait a little bit between unloading and loading:
Drive to (station name)
Unload
Wait For (desired time)
Load
Drive to (next station)
Most passenger trains, at least in the videos of cab rides I have watched, the trains don't stop very long. One passenger train in Austria stopped and loaded & unloaded passengers in only 20 seconds!
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dave
Drive to (station name)
Unload
Load
Drive to (next station)
If you want it to wait a little bit between unloading and loading:
Drive to (station name)
Unload
Wait For (desired time)
Load
Drive to (next station)
Most passenger trains, at least in the videos of cab rides I have watched, the trains don't stop very long. One passenger train in Austria stopped and loaded & unloaded passengers in only 20 seconds!
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dave
Vanguard11
New member
I noticed a lot of sessions lately have this style, however from what I recall and from tinkering, you only require the load command to load/unload passengers.
If you unload then load, all the pax get off, and they all get on.
If you just load, only some get off, and most of the rest get on. It's a bit more realistic depending on your setup.
Vanguard11
If you unload then load, all the pax get off, and they all get on.
If you just load, only some get off, and most of the rest get on. It's a bit more realistic depending on your setup.
Vanguard11
There have been posts on this issue before and if I recall correctly you are correct in your statement. For passenger trains there is no difference between LOAD and UNLOAD. As an experiment, send a passenger train to a terminal station with waiting passengers on the platform and only use the UNLOAD command. Passengers will get off and on (the total number waiting at the platform will be reduced) but the train will not become empty.
I think the wait thing is a good idea. Although it would depend on what kind of railroad your doing.If you want a realistic Amtrak railroad for example.You probaly want the Amtrak train to wait for a hour! and ive rode the Amtrak before.They usally do wait a hour before departure. Usally only in Major citys. But you probaly want to take the unload command out and just put this:
Drive To (station)
Load
Wait(desired time)
Drive To (next Staton)
Sorry If this is a copy
Hope this heps
Vanguard11
New member
I think the wait thing is a good idea. Although it would depend on what kind of railroad your doing.If you want a realistic Amtrak railroad for example.You probaly want the Amtrak train to wait for a hour! and ive rode the Amtrak before.They usally do wait a hour before departure. Usally only in Major citys. But you probaly want to take the unload command out and just put this:
Drive To (station)
Load
Wait(desired time)
Drive To (next Staton)
Sorry If this is a copy
Hope this heps
I hear ya, and I agree. For a long haul route, where peeps are bringing luggage, etc, it could easily take 1 min / pax / train car. For communter trains, it's probably under a minute.
In my experience that is not the case. Sending a loaded passenger train to a station configured as a "Terminal" station and using the UNLOAD command will *NOT* empty the train.
shaneturner12
Tutorial Creator
Same experience here. The recommended command for emptying a train, in my opinion, is the Terminate Passenger Train command on the Download Station.
Shane
Shane
Which I just noticed is built in to TS12 (and perhaps other versions).
shaneturner12
Tutorial Creator
They've finally done that? That's a good sign. In my version (TS2009 SP4) I had to download it.
Shane
Shane
I have some question regarding the same subject.
When I'm using the load command it seems that the train gets stuck at the station. I've find some of the command not to be very consistent. I've also noticed that the train leaves people behind. Not a nice thing to do to the commuters. Any Ideas how to deal with these situations?
When I'm using the load command it seems that the train gets stuck at the station. I've find some of the command not to be very consistent. I've also noticed that the train leaves people behind. Not a nice thing to do to the commuters. Any Ideas how to deal with these situations?
Phadis, if the train has arrived at the station with passengers on board then those "left behind" may be the ones that alighted from the train - the LOAD command (and the UNLOAD) actually performs an UNLOAD and LOAD in one operation. Or maybe they are waiting for another train?
Many (all?) passenger enabled carriages can be configured to set their initial number of passengers - so even if the train has left the carriage shed, and should be empty, it may actually have passengers on-board (maybe they slept there overnight).
As for the train getting "stuck" at the station - could you elaborate? Many passenger enabled stations have a time control which sets how long the train will wait at the station - perhaps you need to adjust that setting?
Many (all?) passenger enabled carriages can be configured to set their initial number of passengers - so even if the train has left the carriage shed, and should be empty, it may actually have passengers on-board (maybe they slept there overnight).
As for the train getting "stuck" at the station - could you elaborate? Many passenger enabled stations have a time control which sets how long the train will wait at the station - perhaps you need to adjust that setting?
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It may be helpful to know that passengers that are 'left behind' will face AWAY from the train, they are actually the passengers that have got off.
Only passengers facing the train are waiting to get on board.
Those facing away should disolve after a few seconds and that should leave the platform empty.
Another possible cause.........
You can self select the passenger rates (numbers of people generated per hour) and if that is set very high you may get some passengers arrive just after the load command has been carried out.
Only passengers facing the train are waiting to get on board.
Those facing away should disolve after a few seconds and that should leave the platform empty.
Another possible cause.........
You can self select the passenger rates (numbers of people generated per hour) and if that is set very high you may get some passengers arrive just after the load command has been carried out.