KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
GWR 'Barnum' arriving from the mysterious West (the hidden western loop sidings) and heading for Bunbury and then Moxbury on my 'hidden in a fold in the map' Norfolk layout. This is a scheduled daily arrival on what passes for a timetable on my layout and it all works out reasonably well so far. Despite TRS22's glitchy behaviour the 'Barnum' arrives at platform 4 at Moxbury and after a pause for the passengers to safely disembark it toots its whistle, uncouples and heads off to Moxbury's MPD. It does this without any problems despite Moxbury station and yards being a long narrow sprawl beside the town, only once it arrives as a green stranger amongst all the ultramarine blue, tops off its tender tank and then finds its way onto the turntable road I'm somewhat stumped.
At present I'm having to manually drive the 'Barnum' onto the turntable and turn it before selecting the AI schedule for it to return to its train, couple up and head back into the mysterious West. What I'm wondering is if there is a Driver Command I could use to make the need to turn the engine a seamless part of the AI operation? Up until now I've used tank engines to avoid this kind of maneuver, but for this particular arrival at Moxbury I really do need to use a tender engine, - and running tender first away from Moxbury isn't an option.
The turntable itself is wonderfully uncomplicated by the way with there only being the one entry and exit track.
At present I'm having to manually drive the 'Barnum' onto the turntable and turn it before selecting the AI schedule for it to return to its train, couple up and head back into the mysterious West. What I'm wondering is if there is a Driver Command I could use to make the need to turn the engine a seamless part of the AI operation? Up until now I've used tank engines to avoid this kind of maneuver, but for this particular arrival at Moxbury I really do need to use a tender engine, - and running tender first away from Moxbury isn't an option.
The turntable itself is wonderfully uncomplicated by the way with there only being the one entry and exit track.