A shuttle train route allows you to have a train (or also a powered rail car ...) to run back and forth on a defined route. To do this, the Central Station must naturally know when the train arrives in the station. The two end points of the shuttle train route are equipped with an S 88 "feedback decoder" in order to achieve this. This decoder sends the necessary information to the Central Station.

In addition to the S 88 contact at the start of the shuttle train route, contacts for the end of the shuttle train route as well as for an intermediate stop can also be entered. When doing this make sure that a change in direction takes place when the start or end contacts are being activated. While the train is stopped at the intermediate contact for a while according to the settings, make sure that it starts up again in the same direction from which it came.

If one or several contacts at the start, in the middle or at the end are not needed, all you have to do is enter Contact "0".


Setup
The S 88 contacts, the speed, and the wait time (in the stations) must be set in order to set up a shuttle train route. You can define with the button to the left at the lower edge of the window whether the shuttle train route is only being entered, or whether it also being activated. A shuttle train route does not have to be deleted in order to deactivate it.

The button mentioned in the paragraph above also gives information about the status of the shuttle train route:
No shuttle train route has been set up yet.
A shuttle train route has been set up and is active.
A shuttle train route has been set up but it is not active.

Operation
After shutting the Central Station down and turning it on again, it may happen that he locomotive in the shuttle train route does not behave as expected. To avoid this, we recommend that you manually stop the shuttle train before shutting the Central Station. You should also manually start the shuttle train again after turning the Central Station on.