Tramways

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Trams are a feature that allows you to construct Tramways, which can be built on open ground and on existing road systems. The default tram infastructure graphics are provided by Pikkabird. To play with trams, you need an active tram vehicle NewGRF. As with other transportation systems, trams require their own infrastructure, including depots.

Contents 1 Types of roadways 2 Availability 2.1 Tram sets 3 Tramway construction toolbar 4 Building Trams

[edit] Types of roadways

To select which type of roadway to build, click and hold the roadway build button in the main menu.

• Normal roads - Trucks and buses run on this roadway.
• Tramways - Trams run on this roadway.
• Dual purpose roadway - Allows travel of trucks, buses and trams. Build a tramway line on top of a road to make this type.

[edit] Availability

Due to this being a relatively new feature in OpenTTD and TTDPatch, there are not many tram vehicle GRFs yet fully completed. There are however, a few pre-release or test versions which can be found listed on the GRF List or GRF Crawler. Please also look through TT-Forums for tram vehicle sets.

To build a tram, first ensure you have some tram vehicle NewGRF files installed and actived:

• To install: Use the "Check Online Content" button of the main display (or click and hold the Options button , select "NewGRF Settings" and "Check Online Content" button); you type tag/name filter: tram; you tag your desired files NewGRF and download it.

To install NewGRF files.

• To activate: Use the "NewGRF Settings" button and the NewGRF files activates appear, to add news files press "Add", you select the desired files and press "Add to selection".

To install NewGRF files press Add.

Press Add selection.

[edit] Tram sets

• Generic Road Vehicle and Tram Set (or GRVTS)
• Generic Tram Set (part of the official 0.6.0 release of OpenTTD) (Note that, despite being from the same author, the first set is not a superset of the latter: [1])

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• Dutch Tram Set
• Ligtrail/Tramtracks
• New Tram Tracks
• Urban Suspended Monorail

[edit] Tramway construction toolbar

Click and hold the roadway build button on the menu bar, and choose Tramway construction to display the Tramway construction toolbar.

Functions of the buttons (from left to right):

Button	Action	Shortcut	Description
	Build tramway buttons	1, 2	Builds a tramway in the selected direction; you can click and drag.
	Autotram button	3	A very efficient tool to build tramway sections in any direction. If used with Ctrl key pressed, easily removes sections.
	Clear land button	4	Clears tiles.
	Build depot button	5	Opens the depot window for you to orient and build a depot.
	Build passenger station button	6	Opens the passanger tram station window for you to orient and build a passenger tram station.
	Build freight station button	7	Opens the freight tram station window for you to orient and build a freight tram station.
	Build bridge	B	Allows you to build a bridge.
	Build tunnel	T	Allows you to build a tunnel.
	Toggle clear	R (CTRL)	Select another tool and then this to remove that item. You can toggle the state by pressing Ctrl.

Besides building on flat land roads, depots and stations can also be built on slopes.

[edit] Building Trams

Then, place a Tramway depot, construct a vehicle by clicking New Vehicles, then select a vehicle and purchase it. It will be then placed into the depot and its vehicle window will be opened. Issue orders to it, and click on the bottom bar marked "Stopped" to start the Tram. Trams can only turn around at rail end.