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It is not necessary to draw routes or links always as straight lines. If desired for display
purposes these lines can also contain corners. Such corners are only used for clearer
visualization of the diagram, they do not have any impact to the operation of trains.
Guidelines for routes and links:
• Routes and links must touch the blocks at the correct entries/exits, because this affects
the direction of travel through the related blocks assumed by the Dispatcher.
• Routes are to be used, if the track connection between both blocks contains turnouts
or crossing.
• Each pair of blocks can be connected by at most one link, but by an arbitrary number
of routes.
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13.2 Nodes
Imagine the following block diagram, that shows two yards with 4 blocks each. Each
block in the left yard is directly connected with each block in the right yard by a route.
There are no blocks between both yards.
Diagram 132: Multiple Routes without Nodes
The structure of this small diagram does not look very clear at all. The routes can be
formed and overlaid, though, to show a more clear structure as shown in the following
image.