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* Hint 1: There is a helpful station extension called the "waiting room" that extends how much of the town your station covers. An "extension" is an add-on building you can build right next to your industry, or in this case, station. Click the station. Then look at the Extensions tab. You'll find that the only extension costing money only (i.e. the only extension you can build before earning coal or wood tokens) for the station building is the "waiting room". Click that and place it on the map, and you will have increased your coverage of the town quite considerably!
* Hint 2: Towns Many towns and cities will have a church. Try to include this in your station coverage - if you click the church you'll see why: it acts as ten houses for purposes of generating passengers for your trains. At the very start of the game you will want to avoid the smallest villages without churches (because you'll earn money that much slower) but eventually you might want to connect every little hamlet to your rail empire - towns grow if you provide them with rail services.
For your very first line you need two stations, a depot, and the rail connecting the two stations. The simplest approach is to just create a loop connecting them: one rail leading one way and another track leading back. If you plan on using more than a single train on the line (and you should, at least for this passenger line) you will need to put down a few [[signals]] to allow multiple trains to run on the same track; see [[Signals]]. Then connect your depot (from which you enter trains on the line) to that loop. Purchase two Porter locomotives, and add a couple of passenger cars (Pullmans or coach) to each. Don't forget to click the green flag to start them running!