Method and circuit arrangement for avoiding undesired response of track circuits

The method involves chaining the main switches of the drive vehicles (STD1-STD3) in hardware or software so that they are switched on with a time offset in a sequence starting from the occupied driver position (DS11-DS32) at one end of the drive vehicle train. The controllers (TCU) for the main switches are looped so that each releases the next for switch-on after its own main switch has been switched on.