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With train tracks set two tiles apart you can't build train stops in the gaps between tracks for an east-west or a north-south travel direction, while it is possible to build them for west-east or south-north directions.

In the attached save file you can see the W-E and S-N stations placed between the tracks, but if you try to build equivalent stops for the other two directions it doesn't work, instead you get a message "Straight rail is in the way". The expectation would be that it's either always or never possible to build train stops between tracks set two tiles apart.

Thanks for the report however yes you can. Press "R".

Hmm, OK. But it still seems a bit confusing to me, as normally train stops automatically orient themselves the right way, without having to rotate them manually. I don't think I've ever rotated a train stop before.

This is an interesting observation. And even more interesting that rotating the train stop "fixes" it. Not obvious at all.

The same logic works for rail signals.