Factorio Smart Train Refueling Station

Thank you guys for watching

I added one more blueprint that included a fuel loader to the train, but you could make your own, i didn't plan on putting it in but its there if you want it, its not maximum efficiency though.

[eleeyah]

Good work. You could add a counter you set to the number of trains per station, and every time one gets fueled and leaves, you decrement one. Once you arrive at 0, the station closes and the counter resets the next time a train calls for fuel. This means that every train of that fueling station gets refueled once, if they have fairly similar routes. If one takes half the time to complete a route of the others, you'll end up with one train unfueled and one twice fueled. But your system, coupled with a counter, would work great if you assigned one fueling station per route, and all trains on that route to this one station. They all would be synchronized, meaning they would go empty roughly at the same time and end up getting refueled just as they all needed it. And because they work the same route, they should also never clog up the fueling station, but instead smoothly arrive one after the other.

[NickArrowPumpkin]

Thank you for the idea how to check fuel availability!!

[KarmanZernickel]

I know this may not be the comment you want to read XD Having said that. The ability to Middle Click and set the train wagon contents to what you want solved my problem. So thank you for that! subscribed and liked. appreciate it X)

[CMUmelky]

Wow thank you. I suppose this would only work for cargo wagons? Sadly this is not working for fluid wagons

[Cooldude-kops]

Does it refuel the loco itself and not a wagon? As it’s a bit odd to load fuel for a loco onto a cargo wagon unless there’s a mechanic where a loco can take fuel from the wagon directly behind it.