BIGGER TRAINSTATIONS

Makes the game's modular train station longer, wider and more flexible.STATION LENGTHSWhen you place a passenger or cargo station you can choose 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240, 280, 320, 360 or 400 m. All lengths work for through and terminus stations.STATION SIZEAfter placing, you can keep adding modules: a station can grow to 1,960 m long (49 rows of 40 m) and 205 m wide (41 columns of 5 m), room for about 27 tracks with platforms.PLATFORM HEIGHTSChoose the platform height above the rails when you place a station. Hover over an option to see where it is used:- 200 mm: low platforms in Russia, Kazakhstan and North America- 380 mm: lowest standard height in Germany; low platforms in China- 550 mm: European standard (France, Finland, Sweden, Turkey)- 560 mm: the game's standard height- 760 mm: European standard (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, parts of Eastern Europe)- 915 mm: United Kingdom and Ireland- 1100 mm: Moscow, St Petersburg, Japanese commuter lines, Hong Kong- 1250 mm: high-speed lines in China, Japan (Shinkansen) and TaiwanThe platforms and the rest of the station are raised or lowered to match; the tracks stay at the height of the rail network. On raised platforms the platform walls reach down to the ground, while platform edges, stairs and railings keep their shape. Passengers walk the whole way, also down the stairs and through the tunnel under the tracks to the other platforms.PLATFORM EDGEThe platform edge, tactile line included, lies 11 cm closer to the track than in the base game, so the gap to the train is small. The tracks and their overhead wires stay where they are.STATION BUILDINGRight under the platform height you choose the size of the station building: Automatic (chosen from the number of tracks), Small, Medium or Large.SETTINGS WINDOWThe BIGGER TRAINSTATIONS button at the top left, next to the layer buttons, opens the mod's window. There you choose the default station length and platform height for the game you are playing, and press Confirm. They apply at once, without loading the game again, and every savegame keeps its own choice (a new game starts with 160 m and 560 mm, the game's standard). You can still pick another value for each station.The window also has all patch notes, newest first. After an update, the new patch notes are shown once when you load a game.LANGUAGESThe station settings and the mod's window are available in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (simplified and traditional).COMPATIBILITY- Works in existing savegames, also with stations you built before you installed the mod: they keep their modules and their platform height, and get the larger module grid too. A few seconds after the game is loaded, each of them is rebuilt once, with the new platform edge (raised or lowered stations built with an older version also get passenger paths that join up again).- Platform, roof and building modules for the standard station, from the game or from other mods, work as usual. Platforms from other mods reach closer to the track by being stretched slightly across.- Station mods that use the game's station script get the same lengths, size and platform heights. Station mods with their own scripts are left unchanged.Removing the mod: stations that use the larger size may lose modules.