

If the building is started from an existing Railway and a curved Railway with a free end is being built, it is usually easier to build.

The building of a Railway curve is currently glitchy. The advised build order of a Railway curve. The railway cannot loop upside-down or tilt left or right. Because if this, you can build a level crossing that allows road vehicles to cross the track, by driving over the foundations covering the rails. Because of its short collision box and the fact that Locomotives have no collision, it is possible to "hide" a fully functional Railway beneath a floor of foundation with a 1-meter space beneath them, then more foundation to lay the Railway on (see image). The collision box of a Railway segment is six meters wide and one meter tall.
#Rail network radar update#
As of Update 5, when using beams to support rails, one can achieve a maximum slope of 1:2.25.Ī fully functional Railway hidden beneath some foundation.

You cannot build a rail on a ramp 8m x 4m, but you can use a combination of 2m ramps and 4m ramps to achieve a steeper grade than a chain of 2m ramps. However, if the start and end points both lie on a Ramp 8m x 2m, the slope can be increased to a ratio of 1:2.7. If the start and endpoints both lie on a flat surface such as a foundation, the maximum slope is 28 meters high over a distance of 94.5 meters, which is a ratio of 1:3.375. The maximum slope is more complicated, as it depends partially on the angle of the start and endpoints of the segment, due to the way curves will be "smoothed" from one section to the next. This means a 180-degree turn can be completed within an area of exactly five by two and a half foundation blocks and still allow snapping to the edges of that area (see image). The minimum turning radius for a perfect 90-degree turn on a foundation is 17 meters as measured by the center of the Railway at the end of the turn (where the cursor will aim when building). Note that buildings can still snap at the extreme edges of the turn. The minimum length is 12 meters, which is the length of one and a half foundations however, trying to build from the start of one foundation to the middle of another will strangely sometimes fail as if the Railway is somehow actually 11.999 meters long. The building length of one segment of the Railway is limited to 100 meters, or the length of 12.5 foundations in a flat, straight line, which costs eight Steel Pipes and eight Steel Beams. Building a Railway costs one Steel Pipe and one Steel Beam for the first 18 meters, and one Steel Pipe and one Steel Beam for every 12 subsequent meters, making it slightly cheaper to build many small sections if short on materials. Railways can be laid directly on the ground or snapped to existing foundations, ramps, Train Stations, Freight Platforms, and Empty Platforms. See Electric_Locomotive#Train_throughput for a calculation on Freight Car/Station throughput. Which is higher than the throughput of 512 Mk.5 Conveyors.Īlthough the train can move this amount of items between stations, the limited ports at the station mean a much smaller transfer rate can be realized in end-to-end transfer using the train. 2.9 Building a perfectly straight RailwayĪssuming an infinitely long cargo train runs on a flat, horizontal railway at a constant speed, the theoretical throughput is:įor items that stack to 100, such as ores, at the maximum speed of 120 km/h, this is equivalent to:.
