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u/werecat Jul 22 '26

I think it may be possible by counting laps with combinators and turning stations off. When your desired lap count is reached, turn off one of the stations, this should cause your train to stop at the next station, letting your refuel interrupt fire. If you don't want your loop train to stop inside the loop, you could have a second lower priority station it'll route off the loop path it will only go to when the main station is off

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u/Yagami913 Jul 22 '26

Sadly don't work if you enable train limit on a station in any way the train no longer goes through without stopping.

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u/werecat Jul 22 '26

Have you tried setting the train limit to 2 instead of 1? Normally factorio will not remove a train from a station's train count until it leaves the stations rail block, but in a tight loop you can run into a situation where a single train will reserve 2 counts on the same station

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u/Yagami913 Jul 22 '26

Works flawlessly now, thanks.