Stations and Platforms

[larry_roberts]

Is there a maximum length to Stations?. Is there a maximum number of platforms you can have a each station?!.

[Martin]

Yes.

[Thoddy]

Originally posted by larry_roberts:

Is there a maximum length to Stations?. Is there a maximum number of platforms you can have a each station?!.

Yes and yes. I don't know the length (400m?) but if I remember it right 12 tracks.

Edit: It's 320m and from what I have seen in a YT LP it's 8 tracks when you place the station, but I have seen stations with more tracks. Maybe combined with freight it's up to 12. Don't know.

[larry_roberts]

Originally posted by Thoddy398:

Originally posted by larry_roberts:

Is there a maximum length to Stations?. Is there a maximum number of platforms you can have a each station?!.

Yes and yes. I don't know the length (400m?) but if I remember it right 12 tracks.

Edit: It's 320m and from what I have seen in a YT LP it's 8 tracks when you place the station, but I have seen stations with more tracks. Maybe combined with freight it's up to 12. Don't know.

Thats a bit disappointing (I usually keep all my trains to 320m in Transport Fever) I was hoping for longer trains in TF2!.

[General Tso]

I agree. That is a little disappointing. I like long trains usually 400m to 600m.

[Wenatchee Willie]

How many cars long is that roughly?

[Saber Kitsune]

Originally posted by larry_roberts:

Originally posted by Thoddy398:

Yes and yes. I don't know the length (400m?) but if I remember it right 12 tracks.

Edit: It's 320m and from what I have seen in a YT LP it's 8 tracks when you place the station, but I have seen stations with more tracks. Maybe combined with freight it's up to 12. Don't know.

Thats a bit disappointing (I usually keep all my trains to 320m in Transport Fever) I was hoping for longer trains in TF2!.

Keep in mind that when first placing rail stations, there's also no option to have through tracks, despite the fact that we know that it's possible. Just because that's the longest/most tracks you can initially place, doesn't mean you can't add more modules to it to make it longer or have more tracks/platforms.

[General Tso]

Originally posted by Wenatchee Willie:

How many cars long is that roughly?

It's been a long time since I actually counted the wagons so I don't remember exactly. But probably somewhere a little over 30.

[Wenatchee Willie]

Originally posted by General Tso:

Originally posted by Wenatchee Willie:

How many cars long is that roughly?

It's been a long time since I actually counted the wagons so I don't remember exactly. But probably somewhere a little over 30.

Schweetness!!!

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Originally posted by Wenatchee Willie:

Originally posted by General Tso:

It's been a long time since I actually counted the wagons so I don't remember exactly. But probably somewhere a little over 30.

Schweetness!!!

That always depends on the wagon length and time period.

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Originally posted by General Tso:

I agree. That is a little disappointing. I like long trains usually 400m to 600m.

it's not because you've a long train that the platform has to be as long as the train...

The UIC ( https://uic.org/ ) has normalized the length of platform to 400 m. However there is some longer ones... By example 480m for the TGV.
Also this game isn't meant to be realistic. It doesn't happen like that to load or unload a freight train.

[larry_roberts]

What I found (in Transport Fever) was that if I made a train longer than the maximum platform length I kept running into problems with the train not being able to turn around (usually because of points -switcher- near the end of the platform) in terminus stations!. Also I didn't see any point in making stations shorter than 320m because, as production increased, it would be wise to make a station bigger!. So, I got into the habit of making every station 320m and keeping every train below 320m!. If I do that in TF2 (and I probably will) then my maximum train length is going to be 320m again!. I can live with it, but these modular stations are not so expandable as they appear!.

[Dirkels]

From what I have seen you can expand them to any length with track configuration you want. Only thing missing are curved modules which I can understand as the curve radius will be different at every position.

[Dirkels]

And airports miss the possibility to add runways.

[Martin]

Yay people like to exploit the infinite trains exploit.. very cool. And boring. But it doesn't need to be added in as a normal way of playing, yes there's some long freight trains in the usa and australia.. but that doesn't mean they need to be emulated in the game.. maybe we should have super long stations that just link from one city to another, people can just instantly teleport between the cities.. and you'd get your "i win button".

[Martin]

Originally posted by Dirkels:

And airports miss the possibility to add runways.

Yeh i'd like to see modular airports