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DJTB wrote in message <10s07ps...@corp.supernews.com>...

>Another question: how did you manage to (locigally) connect Carnley station
>and Carnley Airport (they both share the same station sign) while they're
>not physically attached? Is that a new feature?

Without being able to check, this sounds like the age old trick of
leap-frogging stations.

ie, build station.
build adjacent lorry depot
build bus depot adjacent to lorry depot
delete lorry depot
build new lorry depot adjacent to bus stop
delete bus stop
build new bus stop adjacent to lorry depot.... etc.

Each time you leap frog, you can move things further away, thus expanding
the catchment area of a station.

It's nothing new. This was something I started doing way back in the
original Transport Tycoon, but TTDeluxe made it harder by limiting how far
spread the components of a station can be. However, the Patch then cured
this with the "stationspread" switch, which allows bits of station to be
upto half the map away from each other.

I find in later years it is particularly useful in building a "parkway"
style railway station on the edge of a large town, then leap-frogging a
"heliport" into the middle of the town.

Ronnie
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