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I want to move coal from one island to another using boats, but the station is too far from the coal station.
Is it possible to move the coal by Lorries to an intermediate station (the dock) and then for boats to move the coal to the other island, then from the dock on that island to the Power Station?
Go into Advanced Settings, then Vehicles, then Autorenew. Turn on "Autorenew Vehicle when it gets old", then set the other two options in that menu to the values of your choice.
I believe that vehicles will only autorenew when they pass a depot during their normal routes, but I haven't tested this.
Assuming you don't want to break the station in to separate stations and use a load of feeder links, you will need to tweak the advanced option that limits your maximum station spread.
This advanced setting (specifically Stations→Max station spread) can be adjusted to values between 4 and 64, with a default of 12, and determines the maximum size square that can be allowed to bound each station (whether compound or not).
The recommendation is to only increase this if you are using the YAPF pathfinder, but this is the default so if you've never tweaked that setting there's no need to worry.
For more information, you can see the wiki entries for the setting and station spread.
If you need a station larger than 64 by 64, well then I think you're stuck (and possibly doing it wrong).
Best Answer
Yes it is possible, in the order to deliver the items select Transfer and select Do not load. This will also prevent the vehicles from registering a negative value.
Source: http://wiki.openttd.org/Orders#Transfer