a white rabbit
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ORIGINAL: a white rabbit ..disagree, surely it's simple enough to enable the designer to fix a given supply capacity over a given rail route, you put in all the track from B'rum to London, then you allot a transport level to each line or accept a default level. If you don't want the work, you don't add all the secondary rail lines.. You're missing the point. Units aren't drawing supply in London- they're drawing supply just beyond it, at the end of all these secondary rail lines which you're suggesting we should abolish. As to defining the supply capacity for every single railway, making it hard to use the tool will mean fewer designers use it. ..sorry, i may have assumed knowledge you don't have.. ..a rail line, and let's take 1940 UK as an example, has a maximum traffic it can handle, this is a function of the number of tracks it has, the signalling capacity on those track(s), the number of engines and their haulage capacity, the number of rolling stock and it's capacity, and in the case of the UK , the gauge of a given line and the ability of the operating company to provide staff for the same (GE, LWR GWR, Southern and so on). A locomotive takes time to build, so the haulage capacity is finite, a large engine , say a 2-4-0Stanier will not go round the same curves that an 0-4-0 tank can, but an 0-4-0 can't pull the same load, so any track has a fixed upper limit on it's capacity, dictated by the original track laying, which in turn is a combination of the initial investement, and, once again, the geography of the area in which it's built.. ..simply put, main lines can take heavy traffic over prolonged periods, side lines can't. Where's the difficulty in working out which rail line carries what capacity ? ....
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