Operations analysis
Checks whether your plan actually works operationally: staging yard (soon), run-around, tail tracks (soon), reverse loops, connection to the outside world (soon).
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 (Soon)
What is checked? At switchback spurs (destination reachable only via a reversal): is the run-round segment long enough…
Missing staging yard (Soon)
What is checked? If you have set a station in the "Operations" tool and a train profile, but no staging yard, the plan…
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 (Soon)
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…
Unnamed station (Soon)
What is checked? Whether a track group that the plan check recognises as a station already has a name — that is,…
Uncoupler track
What is checked? Whether a plan with a shunting area has an uncoupling track anywhere. A shunting area is a stub track…