Combining Passenger and Cargo Train Stations

[Oliver Tressillian]

It might just be me but i find that I have trouble building a train station where the passenger and cargo stations are one, i.e. i would like to have a six line passenger station but then at the same time have a larger cargo station directly part of that passenger station, but I seem to run out of platforms and tracks. [size limit]

Is this due to a size limit the stations have, which I am aware about and if so is there a way to circumvent this or can the train stations be enlarged so that one may be able to build one big train station, as having to put down a seperate passenger and cargo station is very cumbersome.

Or is there a modder that can actually accomplish this feat for us?

then in the same breath can something be done to make the cargo stations look like real ones as the standard cargo station are very bland.

I have seen and subscribed to some mods that actually make them feel like real cargo stations with a lot more on display .

[joeball123]

In the unmodded game, stations can be up to 21 segments (840 meters) long and 25 track-segments wide (or 26 if the piece in the position furthest from the default position of the station building in a through station or furthest to the right of the default position of the station building in a terminal station is a cargo platform, as those are two segments wide). However, the default stations that the game provides make it somewhat difficult to use the full space, as the default placement of the station building obstructs some of the buildable area - if you imagine that the buildable area is a 21x25 grid with the lower left corner being (1,1), then the default pre-built stations are built off of a pair of platform segments in positions (10,9) and (11,9) and a pair of track segments in (10,10) and (11,10) for passenger and (11,10) and (11,11) for cargo stations; longer prebuilt stations add segments alternately to the left and right of the middle until they reach the specified width while wider prebuilt stations (i.e. those with more tracks / platforms) add platforms / tracks "above" the base segment (i.e. the track and platform segments for Platform 2 of a pre-built passenger station will be in rows 11 and 12, the track for Platform 3 will be in row 13, and so on).

There is at least one mod on the workshop which allows the construction of larger stations, though I have never used it myself:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2148841371
I do not know if it works in the current version of the game or not.

[MarkShot9]

While volume is low, I have separate stations, but allow them to share main lines.

[Tsubame ⭐]

There is a mod for bigger stations:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2148841371

You can also place two or more stations side by side, and make them look like they are one through assets and mods.

[Oliver Tressillian]

hi guys thx for all the reply's. I have actually started to put them next to each other so that I may have a better constructed railway line. I was just wondering if the dev's could not create something that allows for more lines per station so that we could have one big one. I am not that much worried about the station length, as I adjust it as the game progresses.

[Schety]

I'm not sure i understand your question

Originally posted by Oliver Tressillian:

I was just wondering if the dev's could not create something that allows for more lines per station so that we could have one big one.

There isn't a limit of lines per station's (as far as I know). My guess is you mean Platforms? Several Lines can use the same platform. But the number of Platforms are Limited Because the Station can only be a Specific length/width, which you can enlarge with the mods above.

[Oliver Tressillian]

Thx i was talking about the width

are there any specific mods i can look at and should i only use one of them as there are many stations to choose from

[Tsubame ⭐]

You can install as many station mods as you wish.

If platform number is what you want, you can download the "Lepizig HbF" station, is a terminal station with 25 or so passenger platforms and you will struggle to fill every single one of them with passenger services, lol.

You probably do not need 800 long passenger trains, so you can increase the number of platforms in a custom station by leaving a gap between "station" tracks, and manually place a regular piece of track in between. Because of the gap, the game will see two platforms instead of one. Something like:

P P P P P P P P P
T T T T - T T T T

Where - P is the platform, T a regular modular piece of station track, and - a gap leftover for a regular piece of track.

Because of the lack of proper timetabling, this configuration has some limitations when it comes to servicing train lines, to prevent trains from blocking each other. Also, because the game does not recognize this dual platform as a single one, very long trains will suffer from loading penalty.

[Oliver Tressillian]

thx mate was looking at only placing down one train station per town that could serve as both passenger and cargo