Thanks for your opionion guys, i indeed just can agree with both statement (missing some metro lines, and some traffic)....
But those two things will change over the time :
traffic is growing... i still need to setup mail trains, goods trains, more valuables trains and other freights too, also my screenshots are just screenshots (the game running doesn t show as much lack of traffic, i think
)
And as soon as cities will be big enough, some metro line might pop up there or there.... note also that with a city cargo production on minus 10, metro lines need to be quite long or connecting two hub to make sense (i don t want yet to replace a bus line needing 4 or 5 vehicules to handle the traffic by a metro...).
Also ,it s true the crossing next to Zion is widely oversized(for the moment
) and most of the station in smaller place(wich will grow) are looking way too big,... but it s the only way i know to handle different speed of trains on the same simple line(one way each direction).
It s not perfect but works quite nice between ICE and local trains, the faster catch up the slow ones between two stops, the slow stops and fast can overtake without stopping, (i think Chill was describing more this technic in a thread about multiple speed train on the same lines), the problem is i still need siding to allow slow freight trains to be overtake by faster one, cause the slow freight trains are not stopping at each stops(a test of this is made in last savegame):
- on my 5 tiles large station :when a local train stop, there can be until two slot free for go trough, and if two trains following each other stops, there is still one way free to go through without meesing traffic going the other way(having still two reserved way to go).
- the lots of tracks in front of big station : in reality too there is plenty of switches and parralel lines, and i don t know any places where those "yards" are looking full of train waiting for a free platform. so again that the only way i know to make arrive plenty of different trains without messing to much timetabling(that s my way to try to be the most efficient in term of output, not in term of space used of course
)
about the not diagonal tracks over the higway... i have a few reason :
- Rv cannot overtake in tunnels (and train don t have to slow down for such a turn neither for the bridge with signals)
- i try not to always do the same (there is also plenty of tunneled partf of urban highways and some with rail on the top.)
- and making a line having some curves make it nicer than just straight piece of track all the way.
A experimental priority siding allowing slow trains to wait for faster trains to go first, the three shots show how it works (check the speed of trains, signals at end of sidings and inside the siding and the way point)
Coal train is in front (and enter the siding reserved for slow and unautomated timetabled trains).
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The ICE train is entering the fast lane and by passing the first path signal make the simple signal go red at end of the slow lane... this signal willl stay red until the Ice trains is gone in front.
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following moment where the ICE train is now way in front entering a tunnel, another ICE train following enough closely to keep the red signal on the slow lane... and you can even spot that a slow local passenger trains is also entering the fast lane and will keep the red signal for the coal train until its gone in front
... after the local train is gone the coal train will be able to keep going.
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(I used planning tracks to not make it as ugly as it would be with dummy tracks... but both works the same)
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