My train delivers trees to a wood mill which creates a lot of goods but the station doesn't collect the goods, so I cant transport it to the city. How can I fix this?
My trainstation doesn’t collect the goods from the wood mill but it delivers the wood to it from the train. What is wrong
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The amount you get paid is depend on the type of good, the amount of time it spends in transit (not time spent waiting to be delivered*) and the distance delivered. The formula for the penalty, taken from the wiki, is:
- For each day after the Early Delivery time that you deliver the cargo, you are penalized 0.4%.
- For each day after the Late Delivery time that you deliver the cargo, you are penalized an additional 0.4%.
- Maximum penalty is 88%.
The Early Delivery Time, Late Delivery Time and Initial Cargo Payment can be found at the Wiki. Initial Cargo Payment is subjected to inflation.
You can also find a (less detailed, but more easy to understand) graph inside your game by going to Graphs 
> Cargo Payment Rates. It looks something like this:
As you can see, this matches the Wiki's formula, where certain goods have flat payment rates for certain period of time before the penalty kicks in, and after a certain point the line becomes steeper as the second late penalty kicks in.
* The amount of good waiting to be delivered at a station affects the station ratings, which in turn affects what fraction of goods the industries served by that station will give to the station to deliver.
Build another depot somewhere and connect it with that track, build the cheapest train you can find, manage to crash it with the other train. In a while both trains will disappear.
Cons are that you'll instantly lose reputation in your station, but as time passes, you'll get it back to normal.
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Best Answer
In order for a resource to produce, the station/dock/loading bay attached to it needs to have been visited by a transporter fitted out to carry that type of resource. In this instance, a goods transporter must have visited your station before it will start to produce goods.
Once that has happened, the resource will start delivering produce to your station (how much depends on the amount of wood you deliver there and your station rating).
This can be altered by the settings in the station window by changing Deliver cargo to a station only when there is a demand (under cargo handling) to Off.