ML-Connected Station

What's the difference between a station connceted to an SL and an ML-connected station? In several recent public games, several stations have been marked as ML-connected, and most of the unmarked ones also appear to be ML-connected. Some thoughts I've had:

• If the SL connects to only 1 station, is it really an SL?
• What if that SL is long enough to buffer waiting trains without holding up the ML? Does that prevent the station from being called ML-connected?
• What if there are no other servicable industries nearby? Does that make the SL well-formed?
• Should an SL always have a terminating station (or a station where the SL turns around)? Should it never?
• If the SL just ends, and a single station is connected to that SL (but not ON the SL), does that make the station not ML-connected?

I'm still trying to learn some of the techniques and terminology being used. I also want to be sure that I am building proper SLs and not ML-connecting stations, so any comments would be greatly appreciated. -- Thraxian 14:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)