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from my experience anything with train->truck combination is in general a bad idea. mostly because trains start to be profitable delivering ~50 items, and truck station capacity is ~18, so many goods/materials end up lost.
Person012345, did you manage to make this combo profitable?
It is all possible, if you are within 20 minutes limit.
You can extend your line to go to one more cargo station and some of goods will just stay on the train until getting there. Just keep in mind that the goods have to “walk” to industries after that and that time is also counted towards 20 minutes limit.
yeah, this is one of the biggest problems for me in the game. and it should work for cargo as well, I think. otherwise you either lose cargo because of station capacity limit (not waiting for full load), or frequency declines and production goes down.
yeah, I’ve seen that one as well
http://www.train-fever.com/forums/topic/bug-laying-tram-tracks-finally-paying-off/
I believe this can be achieved now by putting a station at each point the train needs to reverse and adding all those stations to the line.
I think this was confirmed as a bug: http://www.train-fever.com/forums/topic/bug-passengers-disappearing-during-transport/#post-6017
I beleive this can all be explained. I will post my thoughts:
1) The new train line is more frequent that old bus line (1.5x), so it is not “4-5 pessengers compared to old 15”, but more like 6-8 compared to old 15 (that is pessengers transfered per same time interval). But still that is less than before.
2) You added nice bus lines to your cities. This means that people from your city centre can now get to much more places than before! And their demand for job, leisure and shopping can probably be satisfied within their own city, and much faster than going to another city. So they might switch and don’t need to go so far.
My bet is that you just need to let your cities grow a little, and gradually your train line should become much more used. You adding all those lines will definitely help cities grow, as now one can get to a lot more work, leisure and shopping places from many houses. Though you removing the road might have a negative effect on growth, for the same reason.
From my short experience, relatively small cities can be almost self-sufficient (people don’t need to go to other cities for their needs), but when you create more opportunities to go somewhere, cities start to grow and gradually people start taking those opportunities. You just have to wait.
