Point number 1 was facing hurdles till now ,
It seems its tough to implement Automatic signalling in steep gradients, generally controllers don't allow two trains in a gradient. So if Auto signalling is added, then two signal rule will be applicable which will allow even two trains in the gradient halt one after the other. Now few tweaks were made apparently to make that happen. Waiting for the implementation.
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more... number 2 needs doubling to be completed ASAP