Operations analysis
Checks whether your plan actually works operationally: staging yard, run-around, tail tracks, reverse loops, connection to the outside world.
Work in progress: This section is still a work in progress — content is being added and revised continuously.
Reversing loop
What is checked? Whether the plan contains a route over which a train returns onto the same track in the opposite…
Tail track
What is checked? At switchback spurs (destination reachable only via a reversal): is the run-round segment long enough…
Missing staging yard
What is checked? If your plan has a station but no confirmed staging yard, the Plan check reminds you — and proposes…
Runaround track
What is checked? Stations with industry spurs but no runaround facility (no track pair connected at both ends). Why…
Connection to the outside world
What is checked? Whether your plan has any connection "to the outside": a staging yard (confirmed or proposed) or a…
Turnout facing
What is checked? Do the industry turnouts of a station without a runaround face both ways (mixed facing/trailing…