Open Rails starting Timetable AI trains 15 minutes late

[markyisri]

Open Rails is starting some of my trains 15 minutes (and 30 seconds) later than I wrote in the timetable_or file.

I set a train to start at 6:59 AM. Open Rails starts it at 7:14:30 AM.

P.S. I set it to start at 6:59 so that it can depart the first station as prototypically written in the official schedule at 7:00.

Some advice on how to debug this issue or a workaround would be helpful.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

[roeter]

Three options :
First, look in the .log file for any messages on these trains.
Second, start the train as player train and see what happens.
Third, set up an 'observer' in the area starting a little before the set start time, and check what happens. Observer is a player train which starts in a unused siding and doesn't go anywhere, allows the player to just sit there and see what happens.

Most likely cause is that the track is not clear (if it isn't a typing error in the timetable). If the train is formed out of another train, it could also be that the incoming train is running late.

Regards,
Rob Roeterdink

[markyisri]

Three options :
First, look in the .log file for any messages on these trains.
Second, start the train as player train and see what happens.
Third, set up an 'observer' in the area starting a little before the set start time, and check what happens. Observer is a player train which starts in a unused siding and doesn't go anywhere, allows the player to just sit there and see what happens.

Most likely cause is that the track is not clear (if it isn't a typing error in the timetable). If the train is formed out of another train, it could also be that the incoming train is running late.

Regards,
Rob Roeterdink

Thanks for the info. I will check all of them, very good suggestions. I do know it is not a typing error, I verified that originally.