If you have a short platform, you may want to restrict it to certain trains. That's easy!
In Trainconroller "silver" you can use train groups to accomplish this:
- Go into "edit" mode
- Double click the block for the short platform
- select the "trains" tab
- Either add all the trains allowed to go there, or more elegantly...
- Create a group "short trains" and add all the short train engines as members; then select that group for the block
In Traincontroller Gold V8 a more elegant way is to use train lengths. Simply set the lengths of the blocks and the engines & trains.