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External Resources

This page includes materials related to advtrains.

Please note: We are not responsible for the content of linked pages!

A lot of internal mechanics of advtrains, in particular the signalling system, are made based on systems used on railway lines in Germany.

Signalling

Many websites listed here are about German signalling systems in general. However, only a small, modified subset of these systems are implemented in advtrains for simplicity.

Please note that, due to historical reasons, the signal aspect names may differ between the former Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, and, in a few cases, the same name may refer to different signal aspects.

Interlocking

Train safety systems

Advtrains uses LZB as its safety system. However, it is very different to the system used on German rail lines, mainly because many considerations in real life, such as signal transmission and central control, become less important in Minetest.

Players interested in German train safety systems can also read about PZB, an older train safety system that is not implemented in advtrains because of the existence of automated trains.

Advtrains

Lua

Advtrains is written in Lua and also allows creating automated setups using LuaATC.

Mods

Reverse dependencies for advtrains can be found on ContentDB.

Servers

The list below is sorted alphabetically.

The first post on Advtrains on the Minetest forum also includes an incomplete list of servers using Advtrains.

Videos

Youtube videos are an invaluable resource for finding out about real-world railways. Using videos, railways can be made more realistic.

Videos:

Channels:

Maps

The real world can be used as reference for various junctions and topographies of transport.