Getting Started
Overview
What Create Managed Railways is, what it adds to Create and Create Railways Navigator, and where to find what in this wiki.
Create Managed Railways (CMR) is an addon for Create 6 and Create Railways Navigator (CRN). It turns Create's trains into a railway run the German way.
It starts with the timetable. In Create every train carries its own schedule. With CMR you keep one schedule per CRN line and apply it to all trains of that line at once. Around that the mod builds what a railway needs: a signal box with a live track diagram, light signals and signs from the German signal book, PZB and ETCS train protection, train radio, couplers, level crossings, station equipment and a driver's cab for your trains.
CMR extends CRN, it does not replace it. Lines, line colours, permissions and the departure boards still come from
CRN. CMR refers to CRN's lines and never creates lines of its own.
CMR is an early development version. Back up your world before you try it, and expect rough edges.
What you can do with it
| Area | In short |
|---|---|
| Lines and schedules | One managed schedule per line, applied to every train, with preview, undo, auto-sync, night schedule and replacement timetables for closures. |
| Signals | Light signals of the Ks, H/V and Hl systems and semaphores, on masts, walls and signal gantries, plus more than 150 signs from the signal book. |
| Interlocking | Track map on screen, on wall displays and on desks; lock signals, hold trains, set routes, give a substitute signal, limit desks to districts. |
| Train protection | PZB 90 with track magnets at the rail, ETCS levels 1 and 2 with radio block centre and Eurobalises, the vigilance device (Sifa). |
| Train radio | GSM-R between driver and dispatcher: calls, emergency call, orders, signal telephones; your real voice with Simple Voice Chat. |
| Trains | Modular driver's console, lamps after the rule book, doors, gangways, Scharfenberg and screw couplers. |
| Level crossings | Track contacts, barriers, crossing lights, monitoring signal and on-call crossings. |
| Stations | Loudspeaker announcements, ticket machines, German station name signs, platform number cubes and kilometre stones. |
The chapters of this wiki
Getting started
Requirements, installation and a first walkthrough from line to signal to driver's cab.
Where to start
- Install the mod and its dependencies: Installation.
- Follow the First steps: a managed schedule for a line, a light signal and a train with a driver's console.
- Look up the rest whenever you need it. In game, hold W over an item for its Ponder scene; there are scenes for every signal system, the signal box, PZB, ETCS, train radio, couplers and more.
Most blocks along the line (signals, signs, lamps, crossings) open their settings with a right-click of Create's
wrench. Changing them needs the management permission, see
Permissions and districts.