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As my train station designs become more elaborate, I find I develop a handful of "standard stations" which I stamp down automatically. It would be useful if there was a kind of clipboard for track and station layouts which you could copy, save, and paste to save on mindless busywork.

There is a copy/paste/clipboard patch, but it's fairly buggy and I don't think it's even included in any current patch packs. It certainly isn't ready for the master OpenTTD code.

there is an older patchpack, chills patchpack, played it for long time and used it for intersections. Clipboard worked perfectly, just had a certrain place on the map where i build all my templated and copied them from there. too bad there are no new patchpacks i know that feature this patch. and without, its just boring to build the same intersection over and over and over again

So stop doing that

Someone once suggested to me to stop leveling the ground, and instead build on the existing ground (that is, no terra-forming). It made a huge difference. Suddenly I had to cope with height differences, run amount hills instead of through it, etc. Especially early in the game where trains aren't that powerful, it's much more challenging to get a nicely running network.

Having non-flat ground also immediately fixes your need for patterns, every point in the map is different, so pre-fabricated patterns simply don't fit.