Regional passenger trains not visiting city

Article verified: August 2019

Symptom

• Out-of-town passenger trains are not visiting the city

Cause

Three main causes (more covered in Solutions section below):

• Stations not set-up properly
• TM:PE [[Vehicle Restrictions] blocking their routes
• Modded train tracks used for outside connection

Solutions

The most common cause is incorrectly configured train stations:

• Click the passenger train station
• On the info panel, make sure it allows outside trains

TM:PE vehicle restrictions can cause problems if incorrectly used:

• Make sure you haven't limited the passenger train tracks to cargo trains.

Passenger trains can only enter the map via vanilla rail tracks:

• Modded tracks don't trigger the game to create the fake train station at edge of map:
  • Make sure there are at least 5 segments of vanilla rail tracks at edge of map
  • The vanilla segments have to be long enough to accommodate the fake train station
  • From that point onwards, you can use modded train tracks in the rest of your city
• Note that cargo trains can still enter and leave the map because they don't require that fake station ;)

There are some other causes:

• Make sure you've not used cargo station - they can't accept passenger trains!
• If you've restricted vehicle spawning (using mods like AVO or IPT2) ensure the selected vehicles still exist and can spawn
• Check your transport budgets, and also your road/rail budgets
• Mods like Real Time might alter the frequency of train visits or change the ratio of visits between day and night

Fixed?

If not, see:

• Tracked vehicles not routing or spawning
• Cims not using public transport
• Vehicles not spawning

Other issues? See: Troubleshooting