SIDINGS
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
SIDINGS is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
SIDINGS is a free browser signalling sim of one winter railway: 5 places, 4 block sections, 7 tiers of signalling to buy, and one train allowed per section. Trains come up the valley and down it on a timetable that does not care whether you are ready. Two trains in one section is a wreck. How it plays You are the signalman.
Tap or click a train standing at a station to clear it into the section ahead, and the game says exactly why when it cannot go. Signalling is your capacity. One Engine In Steam carries one train. Each tier up the real Victorian ladder automates the job you were doing by hand and opens a denser timetable, ending at Automatic Route Setting. Loops have a length.
Two trains can only pass where there is a loop, and a nine-wagon mineral train does not fit in a four-carriage loop. Accepting a contract changes where you can cross. You cannot see into a section. Until you buy Track Circuits, a train inside a section is invisible: the panel and the board know it is occupied and nothing more. Snow.
It builds on the exposed sections, slows trains and finally closes a section until you send the plough. A wreck or a blocked line ends the day, never the railway.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.