The pictures were taken after trains were despatched. When the station is full it shows 0/h. Based on the number of the buildings the flow into the station should be more than 1,000/h, but it collects only 255 passenges every 30 minutes = 510/h.
When I first started with trains, it was during the beta. I had to run rails straight through a large clump of Omegas in my Sunny Isles but to save on too much jiggery-pokery I only had a small station amongst them. So to be honest my passenger flows were not so important. I was more concerned with my mission to link all the islands with rails.
Why?
Hmm, someone somewhere in one of the fan pages said it couldn't be done. Along with a plethora of Moaning Minnie's moaning about everything railway related 🤣
Yep I'm the guy who did it just to prove a point and annoy the naysayers as well 🤣
Eventually stations were moved and replaced and my lines link all the islands still but only needs 3 stations to cope with the demands when I need coins.
Anyhow back to your issue.
I dunno if you noticed or not but there is only one connection on the Metropolitan Station, it's what I would call a Terminal, so if you lose that loop of track next to it, you may be able to squeeze in more houses around it 😀
Unless of course you need the loop to make the station work? I dunno your setup or plans 😆 My Metropolitan is at the end of the line on the 4th island.
As for passenger flow, it varies, if you are in a hurry for coins and chewing up passengers, it will ebb and flow, it's never been something that would cause me much of an upset these days.
Keep On Rolliin'!
I am not too bothered with it, now. I was upset yesterday when I felt stupid because I was not able to organize my residential buildings and Specializations to get the flow of passengers I expected.
Just to prove to myself that I am not crazy I have removed the Metropolitan Railway station and placed at the same spot the Medium Railway station.
Metropolitan Railway Station collected only 510/h, the smaller Medium Railway Station collects 1432/h.
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I wonder whether the strange behaviour of the Metropolitan Station is a bug. I can imagine the developers are laughing hysterically whenever they introduce another unexpected/illogical feature that surprises and upsets the players. 😆
I think no one ever promissed that Metropolitan Railway Station would collect passengers faster than the smaller stations.
I have put the Metropolitan Station into the storage and invested some of my platinum keys and SimCash into Central Station. That one works nicely and collects passengers in sufficient quantities - 2,000/h. Now I am able to send all my trains from one station within few seconds - that was my intention from the beginning. Yes, I am lazy - I do not want to click more times than absolutely necessary to despatch all my trains.😆
