Emmaru Railways

Emmaru Railways Co. Ltd. (ja: 株式会社円丸鉄道, Kabushiki gaisha Enmaru Tetsudō), also known as Entetsu (ja: 円鉄, Entetsu), is a private railway company operating mainly in the Japanese-speaking parts of Limaru. Being one of the two main railway companies in Limaru, Emmaru Railways is known for its fast metro services that reach many places around the server.

Network
Emmaru Railways is a firm believer in a mesh network, and that can be seen in its network in which there is a lack of a hub station. Instead, most of the network comprises of lines that connect nearby towns to one another and to places of interest on the other side of town, without passing through the city centre to avoid crowds. Track sharing is generally avoided to increase the frequency of lines, but it is used when there are more than one place of interest in a single direction.

Emmaru Railways is also the first company in Limaru to adopt distance fares before the nationwide flat fare system kicked in (now replaced by the Iciwi distance fare system). From 2018 to 2019, it also charged a premium for passengers travelling to Higashiyama.

Emmaru Railways also operates a bus division known as Entetsu Buses, which provides bus services that ply unpopular routes or routes that are not served by trains.

Products
Besides train services, Emmaru Railways also carries out rail maintenance for other railways and sells server plugins and signalling solutions. One prominent success of these ventures is the Emmaru Light Signal, a two-block glow-when-red lamp that displays 2 to 4 aspects depending on the block displayed. This signal type has been adapted and used by many railway companies across the three servers Emmaru Railways operates in.

The TpBus and OldThrottle plugins are also made by the resident developer of Emmaru Railways, Mineshafter61.

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