Intermodal - Santiago de Compostela Rail Station

Intermodal – Santiago de Compostela inspired station

Free forever: ko-fi.com/chriscobas if you’d like to support A train, bus and cargo station inspired by the railway station of Santiago de Compostela, Spain: the 1943 granite building with its clock tower and iron train shed, joined to a modern intermodal complex with a gold mesh tower, a footbridge over the tracks and a bus station below the railway terrace. FEATURES - Three options: platform length (160, 200, 240 or 280 m), station tracks (2, 4 or 6, electrified with the base-game catenary) and an optional cargo platform. - The old station: granite walls, a cream upper floor with a balustraded terrace, an arcade with stone steps, tiled hip roofs and a three-floor tower with clocks. Passengers can also come in from the town side, through the old building. - Iron lattice train shed with glass walls, a ridge lantern and polycarbonate roof strips. Under it: butterfly canopies with two-sided clocks, a glass kiosk with magazines and a vending machine, globe lamp posts, benches and bins. - Concourse over the tracks: ticket office, ticket machines, coffee bar, toilets, departure boards, ticket gates and "Andén / Platform" signs, with glass bridges, escalators and stairs down to every platform. - Gold tower and footbridge: the INTERMODAL sign (lit at night), stairs, escalators and lifts, and a covered walkway in gold expanded mesh across the whole yard to a small upper plaza. - Bus station: 8 bus bays along a one-way loop, with entry and exit from the street. Upstairs, a hall with a café, tables, benches, toilets, escalators and lifts, and a glass bridge to the tower. - Room for up to 160 waiting passengers per track and 80 per bus bay, so long trains and big coaches fill up. - Cargo platform: an island platform with 2 or 4 tracks, or one track with a loading dock with 6. Cargo is collected by catchment, like the docks: place a truck station and a warehouse (or a drivable warehouse mod) nearby. No street connection is needed. - Night lighting throughout. - Connect your streets at four points: the plaza in front of the gold tower, the town-side door of the old station, the far end of the footbridge (upper level) and the terrace strip under the footbridge. - Available from the start of the game. HISTORY Santiago's first station opened on 15 September 1873 at Cornes, then part of the municipality of Conxo, as the end of Galicia's first railway, the line to Carril. When the line to La Coruña was built, the current station opened on 14 April 1943, and Cornes was left for freight. The new building followed the style of the Galician pazos (manor houses): a historicist two-floor central pavilion with two wings, a three-floor tower crowned by a balustrade, and a portico of five arches on the front and two at the sides. The metal train shed over the platforms came later. High-speed trains arrived in 2011 with the La Coruña–Ourense line, and in 2015 the Atlantic Axis linked Santiago with Pontevedra and Vigo. The Xunta de Galicia then built a new bus station, joined to the trains by a footbridge designed by Estudio Herreros, who also designed the new high-speed terminal that opened in summer 2025. Today the station carries the name of the Galician writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.

WHY THIS MOD My late godfather travelled to Santiago de Compostela in the late 90s, before the new station was built, and came back in awe of it. “One day we need to go there,” he told me. He gave me my first scale model train, and it’s because of him that I got into model railroading. After the Rodoviária I wanted a real challenge, and this station was the one I had to build. This one is for him. CREDITS Some textures use photos from Pexels. Thanks to: [Sergio Arreola](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@208344354/) [Ivan Dražić](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@20457695/) [Nadin Sh](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@78971847/) [Stephen Leonardi](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@587681991/) [Kuan-yu Huang](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@252427105/) [Martijn Stoof](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@2150654344/) [Dominika Mazur](https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@139433618/) Tracks, catenary and street benches are from the base game. DISCLAIMER This station uses Santiago de Compostela as inspiration and is not a 1:1 recreation. AI was used to help with the pathing and details.

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