How Redesigning Your Train System Makes ALL the Difference in Cities Skylines

hello everybody welcome back to the next episode of city skylines with me before and here we are in the city of teaport and today we are going to be working on our trains because we have some train infrastructure going on in our city but we could make that much much better so if we just zoom out a little bit here there goes one of the trains thanks for coming goodbye so we've got our main sort of hub over here which at the minute only has one of its one two three four five six lines set up obviously with the 12 platforms there so we could do with working on that but if we just zoom out a little bit uh we can now purchase another square because remember last episode we hit megalopolopolopolis so we can now unlock another square i'm going to buy this one here this tile uh there we go because that's going to give us access to this train line that runs through here now i never find there's a particularly easy way to look at all the train lines that you've got on your city so i am going to share with you a screenshot taken using this mod let's just jump into my mods the csl map view exporter mod and i've got it set up that every time i save a game it saves another map file in this um in this path here so let me open that up and we'll have a quick chat about what we're gonna do okay here we go so this is the csl default map view of your city and i find this much easier to look at when you're planning so we can see up the top here we have our train line coming in from the north it splits off in various places and goes all the way through to the south down here our let's just zoom in a bit more a little bit jumpy as we zoom in there we go so this here this is our train station we're just looking at with all our different lines so let's zoom back out again it's always a bit herky jerky zooming in out of this big graphical file let's go in one more and this is the square we just bought basically this one here so here is our new uh forestry area that we built looks a little bit like a foot as i've seen all the comments tell me that wasn't planned at all and we have a train line coming out of there into our cargo airport so we want to hook that up to this line um i do quite like keeping our passenger and cargo line set put so we may branch this off and have two lines coming up here and two lines coming down here and then setting them off to go a bit differently that might work um so this is our industrial hub this is our all set up that we've got up here uh this goes through here to another cargo which then goes through to passengers so we've got a bit of a mix and match going on at the moment so yeah we're gonna have some sort of junction we've got this going see this little corner thing here because we didn't have this square so we had to sort of whoop and these two don't match up so yeah let's jump back into our city so i like this csl map view mods this is fantastic this one if you want to have a look at things like this so let's get back into our city and see what we are going to do and here we are back in our city excellent so i was thinking with this train line down here i was actually going to split it off further down but i forgot we've only got so many squares unlocked so what i might just do i'm not quite sure how this is going to work i've never sort of done it like this before so as long as if you split the rail off let's just start with the rail alongside it here and then that can sort of that's what we'll do we'll keep that straight we'll turn off bending see if i can get that to join no let's not turn up anything then let's do this what i was going to do originally get that to go into there there we go excellent so that comes up like that splits off now as long as you only connect let's say the right-hand rail is for cargo trains then only cargo trains will go down here and if you only connect let's say the left-hand one to passenger one only passenger ones will go down there you might get the odd train that comes in one end and goes out the other end that goes through um the same as with cars but that's fine that shouldn't mix up your own traffic hopefully your own train traffic i should say so yeah i'm gonna just follow this up here i'm gonna run along the side of this one do you know what i could do if i just pause this a second i'm gonna delete this one going up here because i want these to be alongside each other nicely lined up say to there and i don't have to bother trying to draw that one in i'm going to use the parallel roads mod which i've just pressed the correct button for it and it hasn't popped up i think it's behind there control p there we go parallel parallel road tool so if we switch over to this and have this one i'm pretty sure we can do yes there we go we can use it for railway lines so let's get rid of that so the first one same as selected the second one here is also going to be here we go two lane two-way rail which is what we've got here now i want to get the distances um so let's do 15 on that and see if that does it uh oh almost let's do 17 i reckon it might be 18 let's do 18 that looks perfect to me and then we want it to snap for existing nodes and i think that's going to be perfect look at that that is almost perfect i might just go back and straighten up what i've got here before so we put this on and we just sort of run this through here try and sort of match what we have before these trains are going to have a fun time and then i'm going to hook that one up to there and then we'll just see are these gonna despawn or they're gonna jump on the rail darn it all the people okay this this train worked it out okay so let us follow this up i'm just gonna move that over there because we might just use that again okay so this line down here obviously definitely going to be cargo in fact i'm going to turn that off so we want this one to head over to here and join to our other cargo line so let's just run this through and the idea will be that some some of our industry might end up happily bringing their cargo over here to the airport as opposed to sort of sending it out on trucks so we'll see how that goes so let me just run this over here and what i'm going to do as opposed to what i sometimes do in my quick fix city stuff is i'm actually going to have this uh with the road dipping down underneath so what i tend to do i'll just show you once and then i'll speed up the other time to do it i'm going to put anarchy mod on so i can draw straight across i'm going to get my move it mod and i'm going to select the nearest node so those one two three nodes there and i'm going to just do page down and i'll probably need to do this one as well page down page down page down until we get a reasonable height which i think is probably near enough then i'm going to delete this line here again use the movement mod i'll turn on snapping um which actually then keeps this straight so i want oh let's do this one there we go so i'm going to move that out it keeps it nice and straight to the edge and then i'll do this one to the edge and then i want this piece across here to be uh not a brie i mean you could do a bridge i don't think it fit a bridge in there would it yeah you could do that actually as it's a cargo related one and then if we unpause that just zoom in a little bit here yeah we've got some trees there probably need to go up a little bit or down a little bit with the road yeah just a tiny bit so let's just do that again so we'll go back to here we'll grab that hold shift grab that grab that you get the idea anyway so that is how i'm gonna do it and get the roads underneath excellent right let me carry on okay so i'm just thinking along here about connecting this cargo train line up to this now i was planning to have or i still am planning to have this outer line here as my cargo one um it really doesn't matter which is which to be honest i mean either always going to give us the same sort of issues and problems that i'm sort of getting now what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to remove of this along here because we don't need it to go around the outside like that so let's get rid of that so that's going to give us more building space now this one here has gone underneath underneath underneath split off here in two directions is coming along here to a passenger line and then is going up here all the way up the outside to a passenger line and to this cargo one so i'm gonna have to do a little bit of work there what i'm thinking of doing here actually is putting in a four-way train roundabout junction so that means this little split-off section is actually going to get a little bit smaller so let me just remove this side here and i'm also going to remove some of these trees in the middle as well oh let's double click on trees there we go excellent just to give us some space in here to work with so just been on the workshop downloaded some train junctions and i always find it difficult with train junctions because whatever you put in you know it's going to look so unrealistic particularly like four-way junctions and things like that it's just not how it works in real life um that actually doesn't look too bad it's reasonably flat let's just put that down there and have a look do you know what that is actually quite good so if someone's coming down here want to go straight on they can go left they can go right you know what i think that is the one 91 traffic that is not too bad is it i'm quite happy with that fantastic okay there we go that's not too bad i'll connect that up again in a minute and now this one here can now go off and connect up to there which is our main train hub terminal thing that we saw before okay we're back with another screenshot so just to help my brain get in gear what exactly we've got in different places i've marked with the sea the cargo train stations and the pr passenger train stations this one here being the great big hub so i'm thinking actually most of the train lines we've got set up at the minute are working really well for cargo if i just disconnect this rail here then we'll have our passenger line that comes along here this is a perfect spot for another train station if we could nestle one in there somewhere and then this line could carry on and join with this one here without it going into this four-way section into our main hub and then if we need to we can run other lines out of here to other places and i think that will probably take care of the trains that to me looks like a plan so let's set that in motion so first of all this area up the top here where we have our cargo train that connects to this passenger line here i'm going to um yeah remove this connection so we don't need that along here which means we don't need this coming out the ends which means we don't need this secondary line coming down here that was like a bypass and everybody's happy about that so that's just going to go in and out to that cargo train station yeah that's our first change and then down here so a little bit of oh it's underground and it comes above ground there okay so let's just delete that little bit there let's grab our train line here we go let us go beneath the ground there we go thank you very much and we'll continue this one traffic is 97 this is fantastic so that can go straight underneath our cargo line and i want that to connect up to this one here so if we remove this and then we can adjust this should just be a three-way junction so if we do that let's go back underground again i want to pick that can i do picker there we go excellent so this then can connect up to that i want this to actually be straight there we go and then that can connect up to there so if we go along like this and sort of roughly guess where it's going to go to there and then we'll go straight and that should yeah that should come out up there so that then connects these up then this only needs to be a three-way junction at the moment because our cargo train hub is there and that's connecting up this way to everything else i'm just wondering whether we could still keep that as a four and bring a line over here for this for these to have a cargo train hub as well oh that might be you know something that will help out this area yeah let us do that let's just run wait come here turn that off thank you very much let's just run a road up here and i'm going to try and set it up the same as the other ones that we had so if we go like that like that like that we get our cargo train hub cargo train i keep saying hub cargo train terminal there we go we have that attached there then we remove those and that's going to go straight in and out which is fantastic and then we can just run [Music] this line straight over here and connect to that okay so we now have an extra cargo station down here which hopefully will be put to good use uh by the people in this area and that might to help decrease the traffic on this one over here it's getting pretty pretty busy we'll see how that goes but that's now connected to our four-way junction which is going to be used just for cargo stuff excellent um so then we need to try and squeeze in i think a teeny tiny in line sort of train station you can see the train line comes above the ground there and i'm not sure whether i've got any of those sort of things installed so let me have a look at the steam workshop and i'll be back with you okay i've got a couple of sunken stations here by bo former let's just plot these down over here just so we can see what they're like that's what i want i want it all underground which is nice shame it's got that road going across the top could have perhaps done without that because we've got this road here i mean we could maybe have it here and attach it with that little road there of course it needs a road doesn't it needs a road connection yes of course it does and they're both what's the difference here it doesn't really look like much difference between these in fact they almost look identical so yeah either one of these will do let's see we can squeeze this [Music] in i was just thinking about deleting this but then i thought of the 247 children that are in there uh maybe not a good idea is somewhere else i could just momentarily plot this without ruining all the houses i just can't bring myself to delete the whole thing uh let's just go like that let's just grab that and move it over here there we go nice because what i want to do is connect this road up and then yeah we could we could put it back again let's just take that one there let's just see if i can get that to go into there fantastic if we upgrade that bit there we go very nice very nice where's it gone where's it gone although it just thought i'd lost the school there for a minute and let's move that back and that can then sit off the side of this road oh that just looks perfect and then we even have the touch it mod i think in here uh touch this tool if we touch that we can then upgrade it to this road as well fantastic nice so what i want to do then is oh my goodness me we now need to go through and make sure we've got passenger train lines that are taken in to consideration all the changes that we've made right one more thing we want to do over here at our main multi-platform end station there is of course a metro connection underneath we have 100 average traffic flow fantastic i always need to take a screenshot of that that is really cool so yeah we need to bring that connection over here somewhere oh you waiting to be your trash to be picked up and we've got it here look so if we could somehow oh my goodness connect this up i don't know how we're gonna do that flip it next so that can go underground and run along anywhere under here but then it's got to get above ground to connect to that oh good grief unless we have it split off here and go underground as a separate connection and then sort of become sort of a calm almost standing italian there come above ground and split into direct would that even work let's just see if we can get that to work if i just come like straight through here i want to go straight so if i turn off that and just sort of come over the top yeah i didn't think it would connect up so we need to wonder if the node controller would help with this uh let's just close that one down there let's grab our node controller words of doing this affect it unfortunately no oh that's a shame that doesn't then come out and connect in two places that would just be great what about if we moved some of the nodes out a bit yeah it's never gonna connect up is it we're gonna have to have some sort of y y junction here aren't we um yeah let's reset that to the default okay oh i think we've done it oh no it's just lost it again there we go so we've got a connection there going that way we've got a connection there going that way and this one here doesn't look too bad does it and that will work we'll get some buildings growing up around there nice and then all we've got to do here is get this to go underground whoops didn't want that to happen let's turn that off i'm not going straight like that so if we can dip that down underground then we have solved the problem let's give it a nice big long space and that actually isn't too bad is it if we lower some of these other little spots here yep if it's all still connected nice okay so let's then run this underground and connect that up to where are we trying to get to now over here cool so now we can add in some other metro stops as well as other passenger train stops oh okay right i'm gonna save the game and then we can dive into that just wanted to check in on the new cargo station here it's working nicely excellent excellent i did just have a thought about expanding this line here and somehow connecting up with this cargo station because then this line that comes around here eventually this is going to be a university as we're slowly sort of moving some of this industry stuff away we're going to have a purpose-built water set up somewhere so this little thing's going to move but yeah all around this lake is going to end up being our university which could do with a little train station so where this line goes along here and up to this section and connects here i might just do that we'll see how it goes anyway but for now that's working fine so let's have a look at our um passenger rail lines that we've got set up so let's just have a look in here so we've got three train lines at the moment let's just see where they're going so train line one comes along here goes up here and goes to there so that is just a little commuter one from there to there and that is it i'm wondering whether we could just add a little stop on here to go to this one and back out again just to add that so if i grab that line there and go to here it adds a stop and then that will go back round and up this way yeah so it puts those three in a nice little loop together which is good and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to add another stop from here going over to our hub actually forget that what i'm going to do first of all is just connect these lines together so we can go into any one of these stations that we need there we go that should work fine to come from this direction they can branch off and join whichever one of those that they want excellent so let us just pop that other little stop in down here so we're going to go from there create a new line and then that's going to come lost my place here we go all the way up to here and i'm not quite sure which platforms we're using so let's just turn these back on again and there we go yeah so that can come all the way up to this platform to there and then back again along to here excellent very good very good so that's train line four so let's just change the color of that cool okay so that's that one and that one we'll just turn those off so where does this purple one go let's just follow that one okay so this purple one goes right from the end goes through there and all the way up to here i'm gonna leave that one as it is that's good and then finally we've got this green one so that comes out of our big set up there goes through here and goes all the way up to there yeah so i might not need that extra one i've just put in and i don't think i'm gonna add any stops to that one in here that's gonna go straight through because we've already got some other smaller ones that are giving us access excellent that is very good so let's just have a look what else we might need to connect up right passenger train wise that is it so let's turn all of those back on again and let those run we'll just keep an eye on how they go we then have our metro line so we've only got one metro line because if you remember we've just got this raised metro that's above the ground here that runs through all the middle of this section here goes all the way around all the way down here over the highway and comes into like a mini little hub that we've got here so we've got tram stops we've got train we've got monorail and we've got metro so what we're going to do with that one is connect that and let's see let's see let's see so if we grab this here i want to move that stop over to here there we go they're all sad but then what we're going to do is add in some stops again let's see so we get that one and drag it around like that so when it comes down that way it goes to the big one when it comes back it goes there yeah that should be okay that should all run fine and then let's just check over here on our metro this one here there's seven stops six vehicles 493 passengers already lots of people using this and we've got plenty of train capacity so that is fine for that too and for all of those saying i forgot to put in the walking path there we go the walking path is back in so let's just keep an eye on this down here let's turn it around this way oh look at that that is a funky looking underground train station i like that a lot a lot let's just nip inside there we go that looks really really good [Music] well we can definitely say that our trains are in demand look at all these people waiting here it is working really really well so let's check our train lines make sure that we have enough trains uh going through it's actually got a metro line whoa one thousand and two passengers flipping egg wow there's like 200 where's this stop at the end here i mean that should oh that's looping around and got a ton of people oh that is in here nice nice nice nice so okay let's up that to eight there we go under here absolutely brilliant and then let's have a look at our train so this was our extra train line that we put in and that yeah so there's 175 waiting at our little sunken train station that we've got here which should have the majority picked up there we go by that train there and then this is the other stop back over here again so that one is working really really well i'm pleased with that and then train line number three uh that's only got one train on i might just add two so they're not waiting so long even though one train copes with it yeah it'll do a bit of unbunching not too worried about that but yeah just so they're not waiting so long uh then train line two whoa indeed even the lion thinks walls that's got 500 here and that goes all the way up to over here okay good grief um i might just add another one on here because look that isn't enough all the people there so let's up that to two and hopefully that'll keep on top of that and make people uh help people to not wait as long which is the big thing you want you want your citizens to get to where they want to go quickly and efficiently without waiting because eventually they will time out and they get angry although i think that happens less with traffic manager which is what i've got i'm not entirely sure on that but anyway and this one here has only got two and that one's pretty filled up i'm going to increase this by one as well there we go but that is fantastic they are working so so well i'm really really pleased with that uh here we go i do like this little sunken one so what do you reckon these little changes that we've made let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed please leave a like and consider subscribing as well for more city skylines content thank you have a good day take care everybody bye-bye

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Length: 27min 56sec (1676 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2020