Basic tutorial:
Advanced railway tutorial:
In game tutorial:
Railway construction:
- Building tracks
- Building stations
- Building depots
- Placing signals
- Buying & selling trains
- Converting railways
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Convert rail
To select which type of railway to convert to, click and hold the railway build button in the main menu.
Depending on the option you selected, one of the following toolbars is displayed:
Electrified Railway construction toolbar.
Monorail construction toolbar.
Maglev construction toolbar.
Click the 
convert rail button. This allows you to drag to select an area to convert from one type of rail to another (i.e. to rail, electrified rail, monorail or maglev). This tool can be used on tracks, depots, bridges, tunnels, Stations and waypoints.
- To convert bridges and tunnels: select at least one end.
- To convert stations: convert all tile of a platform. You can mix different types or rail within a single station (Nonuniform stations).
- Unless you are converting from normal railway to electrified railway), ensure that the line has no trains on it. Any trains you already have running should be sent to the depot first (and possibly sold).
- You can convert from normal railway to electrified railway without impacting trains. The track does not need to be empty.
- You can only convert tracks to track types that are currently available.
Mixed railtypes
Mixed railtypes
Diagonal tracks
In OpenTTD there can be only one type of track on each tile (except the normal railway and electrified railway). You may need to rebuild your rail network first if you want to mix different types of tracks on diagonal railway lines.
too close to mix the railtypes
separate tiles for different railtypes
Tips
- When converting standard tracks to electrified tracks, make sure you convert your depots to electrified tracks as well. Otherwise you will be unable to purchase new electrified engines or upgrade steam and diesel engines to electric ones.
- If you want to convert your entire rail network from standard tracks to electrified tracks, zoom out until you can see your entire network. Open the Electrified Railway Construction toolbar and click on the Convert tool. Click in one of the corners and drag to select your entire network. Release the mouse button, and your entrie network is upgraded to electrified tracks, stations, depots and bridges. Warning: If you close OpenTTD and reload your save, the Rail tool will default to standard tracks rather than electrified tracks. Make sure you switch to electrified rail to ensure any new track you lay is electrified.
- When converting to a compatible rail type (e.g. standard rail tracks to electrified tracks), updating trains is not immediately necessary. Steam and diesel trains can operate on electrified rails. Electrified trains, however cannot operate on non-electrified tiles.
- Vehicle replacement (Autoreplace) between types only works for standard and electified trains. You cannot automatically replace a different train type with monorail and maglev trains.
- If you are converting from standard or electrified tracks to monorail or maglev: To save time converting a train with lots of orders from one rail type to another, send your train to a depot of the old type and sell it. While the depot window is still open, convert the depot to the new railtype. The next train you build in the depot will have the same orders as the previous train. This only works if you keep the window open and you can only convert one train at a time using this method. You can convert the empty depot back to the old rail type to convert another train using the same depot.
- You can use the go to depot order for all trains that use the line you would like to convert or use the vehicle list where you can send all (or grouped) trains to the nearest depot.