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MARCoThe entry manager ensures that each track in the station is designated to be used for up to 8different locomotive addresses or categories. The routes from the approach to the stationtrack are automatically switched as track routes. These routes must be stored in the Intelliboxor IB-Switch. The exit manager provides for automatic departure of the trains from the station.It selects a train for departure and switches the appropriate route, which is stored in theIntellibox, Intellibox II or IB-Switch.The station can be completely integrated into an automatic block system.It is also possible to use only the entry manager. In this case the station arrivals are controlledautomatically and within the station the trains are controlled manually. If one uses only theExit Manager, i.e. the station departures are automatically controlled and the arrivals arecontrolled manually.In addition, it is possible, for the entry and exit manager to operate separately from each other.In this case station entry, and/or exit are automatically controlled, and the remainder controlledmanually.7.4.5.1 Entry managersYou have a station with a number of parallel tracks as in the following diagram:At the entrance into the station there is a single approach track with the signal S10. Theapproach track is a block section with a MARCo-Receiver set up as the automatic Entrymanager. This regulates the entry of the train to the designated track.After the signal, the track branches out to the parallel station tracks. Each station track ismonitored by a MARCo-Receiver programmed as an automatic block section with block statusmessages. The MARCo-Receiver in the station track regulates the deceleration of theindividual train ahead of the respective block exit signal, as well as activating auxiliaryfunctions, e.g. switching on Front lighting and calling up sounds.The allocation of an individual train to the tracks takes place via the entry manager as afunction of the vehicle addresses and categories, which are programmed in LNCVs 20 to 119.NOTE: The routes to the individual tracks of the station must be setup in the Intellibox or IB-Switch. The last instruction of each route must switch the signal at the station, i.e. the exitsignal of the entry manager (here S10) to green, so that a waiting train can proceed into thestation.If a train arrives at the entry manager signal, a vacant track, into which this train is permitted toenter, is selected, and the pertinent route switched.50