Catchment
What a station can reach.
A station collects from, and delivers to, everything inside its catchment: a square around each of its tiles. Here are the four kinds at the same scale.
While you place a station, the blue area on the map is its catchment and you are told what it would accept and supply.
What a station supplies
- The output of every industry inside the catchment.
- Passengers and mail from every building inside it, and from 1980 waste too.
- Passengers going home from an industry inside it that wants staff.
- Cargo only starts to gather once a vehicle that carries it has the station in its orders.
What a station accepts
| Cargo | Accepted when the catchment holds |
|---|---|
| Anything an industry uses | an industry that uses it |
| Passengers | at least 12 people, or an industry that wants staff |
| at least 30 people | |
| Goods, Food | at least 60 people |
| Newspapers | houses of a town of at least 150 people |
| Electronics | from 1995, an office tower, shopping centre or tech park |
| Cars | from 1995, houses of a town of at least 1,000 people |