The goal is to treat all mining as a "cloud service" where you don't micromanage individual mining outposts and name them all the same name, so that the trains figure out which station to use. The trains make this decision, not the player. The player can then increase the number of trains...

imo, people should just stop asking to have moddable features included in base I repeat, this is not a moddable feature because LTN does not solve this particular problem. Besides, how's it even an argument to force people to use mods if there could be a simple optional feature in vanilla? Why even...

they did, you can install a mod, like the others listed in this thread! You're missing the entire point. The idea is to NOT use mods. Many people (myself included) resent the idea of any kind of modding, period. It ruins the game experience. The concept of disabling/enabling the station ALMOST work...

The absence of this feature is what made me quit Factorio last time. I always come back about once a year, play for a few months and then quit when I realize the game is missing some very needed fundamental mechanic. The ability to limit how many trains are being sent to the station is absolutely cr...