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Quirke Yard

The railway Company Board have been hearing good things about your work at Sunny Sidings, and as a reward they are going to move you to a place where your skills will be better put to use.

Welcome to Quirke Yard in the heart of the city. Formerly a passenger station and now a storage yard for bulk wagons, the company have spent a great deal of money and time converting it into an automatic goods yard. The designer of the system, Professor Bernard Frankenheimer has unfortunately has been taken away to a local mental health facility following a series of bugs and glitches in the system, and has been diagnosed with severe Brain Fog.
The professor never kept any written notes as to how the system was to work and it has baffled a number of boffins brought in to solve it. This is where you come in.

Shortly we are expecting a main line loco to collect the four dark wagons with the yellow paintwork near the ladders from the main track, leaving behind the two rusty brown ones on line #3. Your job is to determine how the system works, line up the wagons correctly and then return the shunter to its shed near the disused tunnel. Make sure all the switches are set correctly before the main loco arrives and just monitor its operation. Once it's removed the wagons a further set of wagons will arrive onto the main track with no intervention required by you. These will require sorting at some point, but that's for another shift.

It's up to you where you work from—with the shunter, near the platforms or on the observation tower which affords good access to all the switch levers. Please do not take control of the trains directly.
It is highly likely that the gremlins will return during the operation, please do you best.

Good luck!