Unnamed station

What is checked? Whether a track group that the plan check recognises as a station already has a name — that is, belongs to an operating point. The plan check still recognises such groups but doesn’t show them as a notice: it counts them at the top as an open detail (“station suspected”). The question itself is asked by the “Operations” tool (chip in the plan).

Why does it matter? Station detection is a heuristic: it sees parallel tracks at turnouts and concludes there is a station. Sometimes it gets it wrong — a double-track stretch of open line looks like a station from above, while a terminus without a parallel track does not. As long as the group stays nameless, the plan check has to guess, and its messages read “group 2” instead of “Waldheim”. Name the place once and the operating hints about it become specific — and the assignment survives the next time the plan is analysed.

How to fix it: Confirm and name the suggestion in the “Operations” tool — as a “Station” or, if stock is stored there rather than worked, as “Staging”. That pays twice over: a named staging yard also ends the “Missing staging yard” notice. If it isn’t an operating point at all — a double-track stretch of open line, say — choose “✗ None”: after that not only this notice disappears, but “Runaround track” and “Turnout facing” leave the group alone for good. The “Operations” tool is coming soon.

Numbers & defaults: notice level, no threshold. One finding per detected group. Bundles of track scattered across several separate networks report nothing — they are not a single place.