Freight Platform

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A Freight Platform is a building on the Railway where Freight Cars can be loaded or unloaded, based on the setting of each Freight Platform.

It only consumes power when loading or unloading. It has to be attached to a Train Station to work and only snaps to it (alongside other platforms). It has 2 inputs and 2 outputs and the size of an Industrial Storage Container (48 slots) for Solid Freight Platforms, or 2400 m for Fluid Freight Platforms.

Loading and unloading

 * No manual interaction with the Freight Platform and the Freight Cars is allowed during automatic loading / unloading of the cargo.
 * All belts connected to a freight platform are paused for the 25-seconds during loading and unloading.
 * Partial loading / unloading occurs if either the receiving freight car or the receiving freight platform is partially filled.
 * No partial loading / unloading if the remaining space is less than a stack of item. For example, if the freight platform left half a stack of iron ore before fully filled, there will still be no unloading from the freight car.

Animation
Each of the following loading/unloading animation takes 25 seconds: In all cases, the animation is complete only after the crane moves back to its original position. Continue reading: Train Station
 * Full loading: The 20T crane hoist up the container from the freight platform and put it onto the low loader freight car.
 * Partial loading: The 20T crane hoist up the container from the freight platform and hover it over the freight car. The doors below the container open and the contents flows from the container to the freight car. The container is then put back to the freight platform.
 * Full unloading: The 20T crane hoist up the container from the freight car and put it into the freight platform.
 * Partial unloading: The 20T crane hoist up the container from the freight car and hover it over the freight platform. The doors below the container open and the contents flows from the freight car to the container. The container is then put back to the freight car.

Power

 * A Freight Platform consumes power only when loading or unloading a Freight Car and consumes only 0.1 MW otherwise.

Flushing
A Fluid Freight Platform has the 'Flushing' option, similar to Pipelines and Fluid Buffers.

History

 * Patch 0.3.4.6: Now state the correct capacity in their description
 * Patch 0.3.4.0:
 * Increased capacity of Fluid Freight Platforms from 500 to 2400 m
 * Performance improvements
 * Patch 0.3.2.0: Changed name from Freight Platform Fluid to Fluid Freight Platform, updated UI
 * Patch 0.3.1.1: Increased capacity of Fluid Freight Platforms from 50 to 500 m (properly implemented)
 * Patch 0.3.1.0: Increased capacity of Fluid Freight Platforms from 50 to 500 m (announced but not actually implemented)
 * Patch 0.3:
 * Introduced Fluid Freight Platform
 * Clients can now access inventories
 * Patch 0.2.1.14: Fixed ladder collision
 * Patch 0.1.19:
 * Updated animations and visuals
 * Changed input/ouputs of Freight Platforms
 * Patch 0.1.17 b101353:
 * Now can be dismantled again
 * Shift-click support for the inventory implemented
 * Now stops if power outage occurs, and resumes when powered up again
 * Patch 0.1.17: Freight station in the middle of animation work
 * Patch 0.1.16: Made the Freight Platform available