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-====== Remote Train Control ======
-**Note** Cut from an email at last moment, so a little rough and ready. Will be remade.
-I was thinking that Advtrains could do with centralised train control over the entire network.
-My first idea is a signaller's view. At each TCB, there are two forms of section - the physical section, which works exactly how a normal section works, and the hypersection, which is a group of TCBs making up a wider environment of interlocking.
-As such, a metro system can be organised into separate hypersections, with multiple stations, multiple junctions, split at arbitrary points to make separate control centres.
-Each hypersection has a unique ID and name.
-There are three ways of having an overview of a hypersection. A tool, a block, and a collection of blocks.
-The collection of blocks include
-- A map display (which physically looks like a textline, except a stylish grey), which generates a map of the hypersection, with signals, their states, points, their states, trains, their ID, their Line, and their RC, which automatically adjusts widths to the area of the collection of map display blocks.
-- A controller, which when right-clicked, allows you to see a map formspec and change the signals remotely. To adjust TCBs, a button on signals is given, which opens up the TCB interface the signal is assigned to. Also, it gives you access to trains to remotely control them using
-- A cross-communicator, which allows you to communicate to other hypersection control centers. It has two blocks:
--- Displays, which are meant to be put at the ends of the display board, and show text information and pictorgrams for common errors. They are manually configured to show messages from a specific hypersection to the hypersection the control centre owns.
--- Communicators, which allow you to send a text message or pictograms to another hypersection display
-The pictograms can be used to show the information of the train, and this can either be sent automatically or manually.
-What this aims to do is to add realism and make signalboxes worth something again.
-The block can be placed anywhere and asks for the hypersection. It works exactly like a controller, except there is a compact overview map at the top. This is designed for temporary use when doing interlocking work on the field.
-The tool is the block, but as a technic tool and needs recharging to use. It is designed for even more temporary use, maybe looking at a map before crossing track.
-A second form of train control is used for cargo operations.
-This controlling method is for uses at a non-interlocked railyard (which can be very useful sometimes).
-A signaller has access to a map from their office, and on this map exists data on where interlocking ends, points, and any wagons and locomotives (shown in full, with information on where wagons are in relation to the locomotive and other wagons, FC of wagons, and Ln and Rc of trains)
-From this map, points can be set, couples can be made, and locomotives remotely controlled.

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