Diagram View Guide | Railway Dispatch Simulator

🎯 Overview

The Diagram View plots scheduled trains as a time–location chart: rows represent stations, platforms, and pull-out tracks, and the horizontal axis is time. It gives you a bird's-eye view of when and where each train arrives or departs — useful for tracking turnaround services and through-running trains.

Note: the diagram shows the planned timetable only. It does not track the live position of trains in real time, so the lines do not change even when trains are delayed or you mis-handle a signal.

🪟 Opening & Closing

Toggle the diagram panel using either of the following:

Input	Action
F1 key	Toggle the panel on and off
"Diagram" button at the top of the screen	Toggle the panel on and off

🖥 Reading the Panel

Overall view of the Diagram panel (live mode)

Vertical axis (row labels)

Each row corresponds to a station, platform, pull-out track, or terminus on the active map.

Horizontal axis (time)

The time ruler sits at the top of the panel. Thin tick marks appear every minute, with thicker vertical lines every five minutes to make the scale easy to read.

Current-time line

The orange vertical line marks the current scenario time. Normally it stays near the middle of the panel, and the diagram lines drift from left to right as time advances.

🎨 Line Colors by Train Class

Each diagram line is coloured according to the train's class.

Class	Color
Local	White
Express	Blue
Limited Express	Red
Rapid Limited Express	Green
Airport Rapid Limited	Orange
Liner	Purple
Out-of-service	Gray

↔ Scrolling

To inspect past or future times, use the following inputs on the panel:

Input	Action
Click and drag horizontally	Scroll the time axis forward or backward
Mouse wheel	Scroll the time axis forward or backward
Right-click on the panel	Snap back to live (current-time) mode

Live mode vs. scroll mode

The panel header tells you which mode you are in.

State	Header
Following current time	`Diagram`
Scrolled away from current time	`Diagram [Scrolling — right-click to return to now]`

Returning to now: When scrolled, the orange current-time line drifts away from the centre. A single right-click brings you back instantly — handy when you want to peek into the future and return without losing your place.

⚠ Notes

The lines on the diagram come from the scenario's planned timetable. Real-world deviations — delays, signal violations, mis-handled stops — are not reflected here. Check live train positions on the main map.