Sample Driver Block

The following table shows an example of how trips are blocked in vehicle and driver blocks.

At point A, you have a series of train arrivals as follows: 6:00, 6:10, 6:20, 6:30 and train departures of: 6:03, 6:13, 6:23, 6:33.

As shown in the following table, the vehicle blocks are set up with the 6:00 arrival hooked to the 6:03 departure, the 6:10 arrival is hooked to the 6:13 departure, and so on. However, in the next two columns, the driver blocks are blocked with the 6:00 arrival hooked to the 6:13 departure, the 6:10 arrival is hooked to the 6:23 departure, and so on. This gives the operator a 13-minute layover usually to allow him/her to cross over to the other platform or walk to the other end of the platform.

Note: When driver blocks are activated, they are the blocks that will be runcut.

Table 1. Time
Arrival	Departure	Arrival	Departure
6:00	6:03	6:00	6:13
6:10	6:13	6:10	6:23
6:20	6:23	6:20	6:33
6:30	6:33	6:30	6:43