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-====== Tips ======
-Interlocking is very difficult. As such, 56independent has written a series of general tips, aimed at begginers.
-  * When making a route (found when you right-click a signal, you will be flooded by options. Chose the "new route" button), punch the TCB next to the signal and press "end route at next section" (the bottom option if I misremembered the text). This only works when you are on a section with no splits or merges (in any case if more than two TCBs are denoting a section).
-  * At the ends of tracks, do the same as the above. I suggest you make [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_loop|balloon loops]] instead, to make it simpler. As you progress with your ability, you can begin to make more complex setups, like [[http://56i.duckdns.org:8080/#!/map/0/12/-262/19|my railyard]]. My railyard however does not work, so I have taken it off the network.
-  * Always put an asterisk in "ARS rules". Click Save. Unless you have junctions where trains need to go specific directions (which require you to lock points and set routes on different TCBs (in my railyard, I used routing codes based on train length to find whether trains should go in, and it was a lot of pain)), this is fine. For junctions, learn the ARS rules (they are quite simple).
-  * On single-track sections, put a signal on entry and exit to the section. Please just press "enable ARS" or whatever it is in the signal main menu. However, if you have more than one train, you may end up locking up. I suggest splitting at stations and making a single big section (as in [[http://56i.duckdns.org:8080/#!/map/0/12/190/-1169|my example]]. But this is complex. I suggest you only make dual-track networks, like what is in my server mainlines. However, if your single track network is a big monodirectional circle, then you have what is essentially a dual-track with balloon loops at each end.
-  * When you finally learn the basics and have trains running in a big circle in your network, you can begin experimenting with y junctions (My [[http://56i.duckdns.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/guidelines/junctions#y-junctions|explanation]]) (Wikipedia's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_junction|explanation]]), and then move onto stuff like t-junctions, and eventually, after much suffering, a junction equivalent to the [[http://56i.duckdns.org:8080/#!/map/0/11/15/-1339|sprawling railway junction]] on my server (mostly, it's two separate junctions. One reverses and sends NX1 trains back east, and then the INV trains going south get reversed and sent north, and another just combines  IPR and NX2 trains north, but splits them coming south). But it took me half a year to learn how to do this on my server. I started with dual track and began learning how to make cargo terminals.
-  * If any of my advice stops you from following the guide (linked above), disregard my advice.