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I thought I post my 2 lane railway blueprint book before it becomes obsolete with the upcoming Factorio 2.0.

• It's quite small. Not convoluted, no bells and whistles nobody needs. Just the essentials and basics for everyday use: rails, signals, and big power poles for energy distribution.
• RHD (right hand drive - the signals are on the outside.
• grid size 60, because it uses the maximum range of the big power pole as grid basis.
• contains landfill to build comfortably over water.
• contains 1-lane exits to ease manually connecting small remote sites such as ore mines with a bidirectional single track. More easy than to connect 2-lane sites.
• has been developed and signaling refined during the build of a 9.8kspm megabase
• works for many train lengths, with 1-1 up to but not limited to 2-8.
  
  Blueprint book:
  https://factoriobin.com/post/9UxmvzEq

In case you miss the 2-way roundabout, set 2 1-way roundabouts over each other, one rotated by 180°. Always prefer the X-intersection over the 4-way roundabout. I included the 4-way roundabout just because it looks prettier on the map. But for higher traffic, always use the X-intersection.

The map where this blueprint book was developed. If you zoom in, you will see the 1-rail connections of the ore mines. The super-grid size is arbitrary and has nothing to do with any city block concept. It's just to get rail coverage everywhere to connect the mines.