Problem with my first attempt at a scenario

[scottishsr]

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of making my first scenario up, a flyer train from Lanark to Glasgow Central (1C01) (Instead of Anderston) following a Scotrail diagram.

I have been following the Marleyman guide and have the train running on the route, starting at Lanark, running to timetable etc, although I had to select Carstairs as the starting point on the scenario menu as Lanark was not showing up.

The problem is the signal on the end of Lanark platform is at red and won't change. If I select tab it has no response. How can I get this signal to show a green aspect?

I thought about just having a command up saying it was the signaller authorising to pass the signal at danger and to continue at caution and obey all other signals, but I would rather it was at green.

Hopefully in future I am going to do a few scenarios and try and incorporate stuff like wrong-direction moves, temporary block working etc into them.

Thanks

Chris

[LoneWolfDon]

I've ran into this problem sometimes while making scenarios.
It's like, there's nothing ahead that would be "blocking" the Player's-train path (no AI trains conflicting), and pressing Tab also gave no response...

Hmmm, very strange indeed.
Then I figured it out.. I took a closer look at the path ahead (and sometimes you have to look a fair distance ahead) of the Player's-train on the map. All "seemed" okay.. But wait... zooming in, and looking more closely (and this can get confusing if there's a whole lot of tracks nearby paralleling each other) where the path "wanted" to go there was a couple of manual-junctions along the path that were set on "opposing" the path of the Player's-train.

Manually setting the switches to align properly with the Player's-train path then fixed the red-signal problem.
To make changes to manual-junctions while in the scenario-editor is not too hard, switch to map view, zoom-in on a manual-junction-point (represented by blue dots) and you can see what path they are set for (represented by a thicker gray line usually), then use "Shift + Left-click" on the blue-dot to change the path of that junction-point, then when happy things look right, save your changes and test things out.
If the signal still stays red, you might have missed another opposing-junction that needs to be changed. If all else fails, you may need to be "creative" and set an alternate path (perhaps by use of waypoints or Go-via instructions).

Hopefully that should fix the problem for you.