Howto : A station for 5 cart trains

In this howto, we will see how to build a station to manage trains up to 5 carts.

There is schematics for the 5-cart station here: 1 file for each orientation. A piece of redstone is missing in the hole behind the BC9001 sign, don't forget to put it back.

This station can receive trains with up to 5 carts, and make it start with a button.

This station can obviously receive standalone carts.

This howto is divided in 2 parts. First we will build the access to the station, then we will build the station itself with its platform.

Access

EDIT:please read "a line AND a torch"

EDIT:This value of 40 blocks is empirical. By experience, a distance of 20 blocks is too small since we must have time to make the train leave the station if a cart triggers the detector when cancelling the start is no more possible. Benchmarking would be welcome.

Station

Other models can be built from this tutorial. Technically, there is no limitation on train length, except limitations required to avoid network congestion. If you plan to build a network for very long trains, you must scale it accordingly. The scaling parameter is the distance between a BC7002 detector and a BC9001 station: it must be long enough to detect a free window in the traffic to insert a long train.