Automatic Repair Trains on Lines

[Grazer]

It seems we have to manually send trains to repair when they are on lines which makes it a tedious exercise. I have resorted to using train DO's but it is so inefficient and expensive by comparison.

Am i missing something? I tried sending them to an 'end station' on their route, but they dont repair there either. Maybe if the repair building is within range of the end station?

[bballjo]

That sounds correct...the thing with trains is that their lifespan is a lot longer than a car, so you should only have to check trains every few decades, but yeah, the lines are not giving a good user experience in this regard...

[Vimes]

The effectiveness of vehicle repairs have improved a lot in the recent builds...

For cargo trains and RDO's a vehicle repair station, within distance, and from road association, will pick up those cargo trains and send a repair truck to repair them in situ.

For passenger trains.....

If you have a repair station with an attached train depot, outline brown box around the station when placing, passenger trains WILL be sent there for repair. It does work.
Using end stations is ok for associated repair stations BUT that is limited to trains assigned to go there, only.

A caveat being that passengers being taken to the repair station, by a train going for repair, often mean they will time out and teleport home.

It will work fully automated for both passenger and cargo trains....

Make sure that you have enough associated rail depots, with repair stations. Otherwise trains will travel a long distance to them.


Ships are not quite there tho.

[astralsilber]

I second that from my own experience. As Vimes above said:

Originally posted by author:

It will work fully automated for both passenger and cargo trains....

- if you attach a repair station to a depot.