That's exactly right. As it is now there's no way to have a generic train go to differently named pickup stations (ie. when the train is empty) without a ton of combinator work.

Adding the wildcard station name match as discussed in the other thread (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t ...

That's the same as the old system with trains dedicated to each resource type.

The problem with using a central depot station to assign a pickup station to a general train is the trains have to cycle through the depot station every time they finish their route. They can't go directly from an unload ...