Transfer Tables
After doing some testing with working trains in and out of Seaton's fiddle yard I decided it really wasn't that good. What I needed was a transfer table so i could make better use of the space available; - and there hangs a tale. There are a lot of transfer tables on the DLS, but most are old ones made for TS2004 and I had my doubts about them.
Look Mum I made a 16 wheeler coach! Well that was that one off the list.
And this one was no better. If anyone tells me that they never have any trouble with these particular transfer tables I shall be be obliged to hate them forever since I tried everything I could think of to get them to work,
But at last I found a good one that did exactly what it said on the tin and worked like it should. It has ten tracks which is a possibly bit too much of a good thing for Seaton, but it does give the capacity to have a good range of different types of rolling stock on hand as well as a handy track to store brake vans. There's capacity to store five engines as well provided they are smallish tank engines. It's a fairly quick moving transfer table too so it's not a waiting game using it while shunting.
I don't know what was wrong with the other transfer tables. They just didn't seem to have been fitted with attached tracks that would function in TS2012 or else their scripts no longer work anymore. If there is some strange esoteric secret to getting them to work known only to a chosen few then I can't be bothered with them and I've deleted them.
Anyway I've got a working fiddle yard now that has the capacity to provide all manner of trains during an operating session and that's made me very happy. If N3V's upload server hadn't gone on the blink I would have gone ahead and uploaded Seaton and the layout wouldn't have been as good to operate as it is now.