The one train staff working method should suffice when the single line dead end section has only the one platform/siding at the end.
What exactly do you mean with a "single line dead end section [that] has only one platform/siding at the end"?
Do you mean there can be only one station in a single tracked section, when one train staff controlled or do you mean that each station can only have one track, that means no intermediate junctions?
If you mean the latter, I would not even call such a setup a single tracked dead end track.
If you mean the former, then I must admit I have used the one train staff cabinet wrong. However, I would expect both to work to be honest, as long as there is only a single entry and a directly adjacent exit of this whole section.
In the former, deadlocks will randomly occur when used with in combination with any other working method other than drive_by_sight on the double tracked section.
e.g.
---c=====a
, where "-" is a single track, "c" are two one train staff cabinets on the double tracked section, one at the entry, the other one at the exit, "=" is a double tracked section and "a" is an absolute block signal in the left direction.
Track circuit block signals are intended to replace token block signals. Use the bidirectional signals (a signal facing in both directions) on the bidirectional track for this to work.
Well that's interessting! I tried it out but didn't expect it to work at dead end tracks to be honest and it didn't.
However, I am not quite sure if my used setup was the same as thoe one you explained. I had some experimentation with it early on, so I'll give it another try.
What I had observed is that a train entering that section will create a directional reservation towards the dead end.
As long as that train did not reverse and depart at the last station, other trains cann follow up in the same direction and will for sure deadlock that system.
This is also what I would expect due to how directional reservations are working but this does not allow for replacing token block at those tracks.
Also, it should be mentioned that bidirectional track circuit blocks should be places before the first sation in the single tracked section. If you place it at the first station tile, it will sometimes deadlock.
I always place single direction signals as station exit signals in such single tracked blocks and use a bi directional signal at the first single tracked tile or, if there is already a station, at the last double tracked tile.
This seems to be working well.
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