Buy Rail Route Expect Delays PC key

Rail Route Expect Delays adds infrastructure wear, breakdowns and other disruptions to Rail Route, along with trains, buildings, upgrades and tools for managing them. It works in Endless and Timetable modes on any map, and is compatible with Happy Passengers. You can also enable it on an existing save.

Wear and incidents

Tracks, switches, signals and sensors wear with use, with busy lines wearing faster than quiet ones. Worn switches operate more slowly, worn tracks slow trains, and neglected infrastructure eventually fails. The condition map shows the state of your network from green to red, helping you spot problems before they cause failures.

Four incident types can disrupt your railway: trains break down and block lines; storms slow entire areas and can damage tracks; power outages disable sensors, requiring you to route trains by hand; and border trains may arrive late. Every incident can be fixed.

Maintenance fleet

The yellow Service Locomotive repairs worn or broken infrastructure as it passes over it. You can also couple it to a broken-down train and tow it away. Build a Maintenance Depot to house your maintenance fleet, buy service locomotives and send them where they are needed. In Timetable mode, service locomotives wait at your borders.

You can draw service routes for locomotives to follow automatically, either on demand or to a schedule. They repair infrastructure along the way. Seven system upgrades include unlocking the Maintenance Depot, housing up to five service locomotives per depot, doubling repair speed and unlocking automated service routes.

Contracts and scoring

Contract controls let you choose how often each contract repeats and set its operating hours. For example, a commuter line can run only during the morning rush, while a night freight contract can run only after dark. Delays caused by incidents do not count against your score, and each minute of delay you recover earns a bonus.

Set the difficulty

You can turn each incident type on or off and adjust disruption frequency from Off to Relentless. Wear can be slowed or disabled, and you can add some random variation to arrival times.