PrimeRailControl

What you do

You are the dispatcher of a station or a stretch of line. Trains ask to enter at the edges of your area; you accept them, set their routes and send them on according to the timetable. Nothing moves without a route you have set, and the interlocking checks every route as a real one does: occupied tracks, conflicting routes, points locked under a train.

Routes

22 routes in 11 countries — Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Italy, the United Kingdom and the USA — most of them built from OpenStreetMap data, each with a timetable scenario. A small training station takes you through the first steps.

Interlocking desks

The same station can be worked from a relay push-button desk, a numeric-choice desk, a screen-based electronic interlocking in Central European style or one in German style, or directly from the track view. Signals follow the rules of the selected country.

Operations

Entry requests, train acceptance and neighbouring dispatchers who may postpone a train Shunting, locomotive run-rounds, bankers and light engines Possessions with written orders you sign before the shift Faults of points, track circuits, signals, power supply and level crossings, each with its handling procedure Winter: frozen points, point heating, icy rails Scoring and a delay breakdown for every train Saved runs, timetable graph and multi-monitor setup

Build your own

Track editor with OpenStreetMap import, scenario editor with timetable graph, interval-timetable assistant, GTFS import and traffic generator, and an event editor for possessions. Routes, scenarios and possessions can be shared on Steam Workshop (in testing).

Early Access

Prime Rail Control is developed by a single developer with a background in professional software testing. Reported problems are checked and fixed in the next updates — see the update history and the discussions.