Mainline Junctions - Revision history

Benny: Redirected page to Backbone Hub

2013-12-04T06:39:33Z

Redirected page to Backbone Hub

Hazzard at 12:17, 13 March 2012

2012-03-13T12:17:39Z

Bodo Thiesen: improved inter guides linking

2010-07-19T16:00:32Z

improved inter guides linking

Tneo: Updated image and text

2009-05-13T09:29:11Z

Updated image and text

Seandasheep at 09:48, 4 April 2009

2009-04-04T09:48:55Z

Timwi at 12:16, 19 July 2007

2007-07-19T12:16:22Z

Mucht at 23:35, 9 April 2007

2007-04-09T23:35:15Z

Osai: added guide nav on top

2007-04-07T20:12:29Z

added guide nav on top

Mucht at 11:17, 23 March 2007

2007-03-23T11:17:14Z

Mucht at 11:16, 23 March 2007

2007-03-23T11:16:10Z

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-[[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Guides:Building|^^ Back to Building Guides Index]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
+#REDIRECT [[Backbone Hub]]
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-After building the first hubs in [[Basic_Junctions|Part 2]], you will probably notice that our mainlines may sometimes cross each other. Since we always build a comprehensive network and try to avoid dead-end lines, there is a point in the game where a so-called "Backbone Hub" is needed (remember to name the hub as described before). To see what we talk about, look at this:
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-[[Image:BBH.png|center|thumb|600px|Example of a [[Backbone_Hub|Backbone Hub]] ]]
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-Let us analyse this one:
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-* A mainline is built from east to west (if you read the previous pages carefully you should already know where east and west are). Be careful: this mainline has a temporary solution: the tunnels and bridges are all single for example purposes.
-* Again, we have a T-Hub but this time it is slightly different: we do not connect a sideline (LR) to a mainline (LL___RR) but a mainline to a mainline. 4 way hubs are almost never built due to their massive footprint.
-* Mainlines enjoy the highest priority in the whole network. Mainlines are intended to be fast and hosting trains in order to go over long distances. Therefore, we try to avoid slowing down these trains on mainlines (remember: money has something to do with time and time is money!). In the end we come to the conclusion: Backbone Hubs have to be as fast as ever possible! As shown in our tutorial picture, there are no tight curves or major slopes. It is - as already shown - signaled as close as possible to avoid delays.
-* Since a train typically has a route (notice: not order list!) like Station XY - Sideline Hub YZ - Backbone Hub ZA - Sideline Hub AB - Station BC, it has already the possibility to access both (i.g.: all) tracks of the mainline via the Sideline Hubs (remember: for SLH's we said: always connect every possibility!) we do not need to connect each track of one mainline to each track of the other mainline - which simplifies the whole thing a lot! You only need to connect the inner line of one mainline to the inner line of the other mainline and so one. Feel free to study our tutorial picture some minutes and you'll find out what we mean.
-* The best start if you want to build a BBH is to move the tracks of one direction some spaces to have more space in between the tracks. You'll soon notice that this is a quite helpful trick.
-* Always split before you join tracks, otherwise you might be creating a roundabout or (even worse) a cloverleaf junction. These junction types will jam once they see enough traffic from several directions.
-* Don't  mix that with join before split which has to be avoided by any means!
-* In this example there is no load balancing, something you will see in our games.
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-[[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Guides:Building|^^ Back to Building Guides Index]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
-[[Category:Guides]]

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 * A mainline is built from east to west (if you read the previous pages carefully you should already know where east and west are). Be careful: this mainline has a temporary solution: the tunnels and bridges are all single for example purposes.
-* Again, we have a T-Hub but this time it is slightly different: we do not connect a sideline (LR) to a mainline (LL___RR) but a mainline to a mainline.
+* Again, we have a T-Hub but this time it is slightly different: we do not connect a sideline (LR) to a mainline (LL___RR) but a mainline to a mainline. 4 way hubs are almost never built due to their massive footprint.
 * Mainlines enjoy the highest priority in the whole network. Mainlines are intended to be fast and hosting trains in order to go over long distances. Therefore, we try to avoid slowing down these trains on mainlines (remember: money has something to do with time and time is money!). In the end we come to the conclusion: Backbone Hubs have to be as fast as ever possible! As shown in our tutorial picture, there are no tight curves or major slopes. It is - as already shown - signaled as close as possible to avoid delays.
 * Since a train typically has a route (notice: not order list!) like Station XY - Sideline Hub YZ - Backbone Hub ZA - Sideline Hub AB - Station BC, it has already the possibility to access both (i.g.: all) tracks of the mainline via the Sideline Hubs (remember: for SLH's we said: always connect every possibility!) we do not need to connect each track of one mainline to each track of the other mainline - which simplifies the whole thing a lot! You only need to connect the inner line of one mainline to the inner line of the other mainline and so one. Feel free to study our tutorial picture some minutes and you'll find out what we mean.

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-[[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
+[[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Guides:Building|^^ Back to Building Guides Index]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
 After building the first hubs in [[Basic_Junctions|Part 2]], you will probably notice that our mainlines may sometimes cross each other. Since we always build a comprehensive network and try to avoid dead-end lines, there is a point in the game where a so-called "Backbone Hub" is needed (remember to name the hub as described before). To see what we talk about, look at this:
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+[[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Guides:Building|^^ Back to Building Guides Index]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
 [[Basic_Junctions|<< Basic Junctions ]] | [[Networking| Networking >>]]
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 [[Category:Guides]]

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 Let us analyse this one:
-* A mainline is built from east to west (if you read the previous pages carefully you should already know where east and west are). Be careful: this mainline has a temporary solution: we usually don't build tunnels on mainlines (since we can't signal tunnels!). This town has got to move to ... somewhere else in the close future. Also, we do not use bridges or something else. But let us leave this drawbacks beside and move the focus back on the BBH itself.
+* A mainline is built from east to west (if you read the previous pages carefully you should already know where east and west are). Be careful: this mainline has a temporary solution: the tunnels and bridges are all single for example purposes.
 * Again, we have a T-Hub but this time it is slightly different: we do not connect a sideline (LR) to a mainline (LL___RR) but a mainline to a mainline.
-* Mainlines enjoy the highest priority in the whole network. Mainlines are intended to be fast and hosting trains in order to go over long distances. Therefore, we try to avoid slowing down these trains on mainlines (remember: money has something to do with time and time is money!). In the end we come to the conclusion: Backbone Hubs have to be as fast as ever possible! As shown in our tutorial picture, there are no tight curves or major slopes. It is - as already shown - signaled as close as possible to avoid delays (not completely done in our example).
+* Mainlines enjoy the highest priority in the whole network. Mainlines are intended to be fast and hosting trains in order to go over long distances. Therefore, we try to avoid slowing down these trains on mainlines (remember: money has something to do with time and time is money!). In the end we come to the conclusion: Backbone Hubs have to be as fast as ever possible! As shown in our tutorial picture, there are no tight curves or major slopes. It is - as already shown - signaled as close as possible to avoid delays.
 * Since a train typically has a route (notice: not order list!) like Station XY - Sideline Hub YZ - Backbone Hub ZA - Sideline Hub AB - Station BC, it has already the possibility to access both (i.g.: all) tracks of the mainline via the Sideline Hubs (remember: for SLH's we said: always connect every possibility!) we do not need to connect each track of one mainline to each track of the other mainline - which simplifies the whole thing a lot! You only need to connect the inner line of one mainline to the inner line of the other mainline and so one. Feel free to study our tutorial picture some minutes and you'll find out what we mean.
 * The best start if you want to build a BBH is to move the tracks of one direction some spaces to have more space in between the tracks. You'll soon notice that this is a quite helpful trick.
 * Always split before you join tracks, otherwise you might be creating a roundabout or (even worse) a cloverleaf junction. These junction types will jam once they see enough traffic from several directions.
 * Don't  mix that with join before split which has to be avoided by any means!
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	* Don't mix that with join before split which has to be avoided by any means!		* Don't mix that with join before split which has to be avoided by any means!

		+	'''Additional commenst by seandasheep'''
		+	*The Inner left hand track also doesn't have a left turn!
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 '''Additional comments by Xahodo:'''
 * Always split before you join tracks, otherwise you might be creating a roundabout or (even worse) a cloverleaf junction. These junction types will jam once they see enough traffic from several directions.
+** Curiously, the screenshot at the top has one line that joins before it splits. Looks like it's a bad example to learn from?!
 '''Additional comments by Mucht:'''

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:12, 7 April 2007
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		+	[[Basic_Junctions\|<< Basic Junctions ]] \| [[Networking\| Networking >>]]
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	After building the first hubs in [[Basic_Junctions\|Part 2]], you will probably notice that our mainlines may sometimes cross each other. Since we always build a comprehensive network and try to avoid dead-end lines, there is a point in the game where a so-called "Backbone Hub" is needed (remember to name the hub as described before). To see what we talk about, look at this:		After building the first hubs in [[Basic_Junctions\|Part 2]], you will probably notice that our mainlines may sometimes cross each other. Since we always build a comprehensive network and try to avoid dead-end lines, there is a point in the game where a so-called "Backbone Hub" is needed (remember to name the hub as described before). To see what we talk about, look at this: