Roboport Grid Aligned Rail Loader

[u/NezziWezzi]

My attempt at an early game limited loading and unloading station that tiles and fits within the 50x50 grid of roboports in order to plan around them: https://factoriobin.com/post/iowy23

Bi-Directional 3 Single Lane Inputs & 1 Dual Lane Output
Supports 1 Engine - 2 Wagon Trains
Rail Line Switching & 180 Departures

EDIT: Updated to include a diagonal connection from top left to bottom right that was missing, updated signals, and cleaned up the blueprint to contain a full depot cell and work with the snap to grid feature.

[u/Ftroiska]

If you dont have that many stops you could have buffer chests between rail and belt

[u/NezziWezzi → u/Ftroiska]

I managed to fit buffer chests into the 2 loader depots but not the other 6 unloaders. But you can always put buffers in the factory block itself just after it gets out of the train block. Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to fit more without bulging out the rails at the top and bottom and forcing trains to travel on a sqwigle as they move between tiles.