Goede vraag, maar moeilijk te beantwoorden door iemand die geen ervaring heeft met treinbesturing.
Manual train control is performed by putting a train on the track and by driving it with the throttle of the digital system, with the on-screen throttle of TrainController™Bronze or with a +SmartHand™ handheld without taking any further measures. Although the position of the train can be tracked by the computer, the computer does not activate routes ahead of the train or take corrective action like stopping the train at a red signal. The human operator is completely responsible for routing and stopping. A train driven in this way, however, is protected against other trains running under control of the computer, while other trains are not automatically protected against this train, i.e. the human operator is responsible for ensuring, that the train operated by him in this way does not run into other trains.