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Extensions are critical to growing your TrainStation "business". When you start playing TrainStation, your station has only one rail for trains and one short street for buildings. You can dispatch only four trains at a time, and you can't dispatch diesel or electric trains at all. Extensions allow you to change all of that. With extensions, you can make your station bigger, dispatch trains more quickly, and discover new technologies that unlock more parts of the game. You even can build two more stations and upgrade them, too!

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Extensions are located in the Shop, on the Station Extensions and Themes tab.

There are ten types of extensions in four main categories: Fleet Management, Population Management, Technology, and Storage. Most extensions have multiple levels of upgrades. There is currently over 170 upgrades available. If you buy the Stock Exchange (special building) you will receive a 20% discount on all future purchases of themes and extensions. The Discounted Cost column in the tables below shows the prices of items when the discount from Stock Exchange building is active.

IMPORTANT NOTE: To receive the discount, ensure your Stock Exchange is placed on a street in your PRIMARY STATION before you purchase an extension. You will not receive this benefit while Stock Exchange is placed in Storage or on a street in your 2nd Station or 3rd Station.

Fleet Management Extensions
The Fleet Management category includes extensions that help you handle more trains in your fleet and handle them more quickly. You can see most of these items on the Trains screen. To access your trains fleet, click on the banner marked Trains in the top left corner of the game screen.

Local Trains
Management of Local Trains includes Rails and Train Slots.
 * Rails are visibile in your station, on the main game screen.
 * Train Slots are visible on the Trains screen, on the Local Trains tab.

Rails
Rails help you increase the efficiency of your entire train operations. The more rails your station has, the more Express, Local or International trains you can load and unload simultaneously.

Train Slots
Train Slots help you increase ammount of resources hauled to your station. The more train slots you have, the more Local Trains you can dispatch at once.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The term Train Slot(-s) always refers to LOCAL Trains.

Number of available Train Slots was affected with the following Game Updates:
 * June 16, 2011 Game Update - Added more train slots.
 * September 19, 2013 - Rebalanced most of Train Slots, level requirements and/or prices reduced.

International Trains
Management of International Trains includes Intl. Slots and Trainroute Planner.
 * International Slots are visible on the Trains screen, on the Intl. Trains tab.
 * Trainroute Planner slots are visible on the International dispatching screen.

International Slots
International Slots help you complete contracts and send more resources to your neighbours, or to show off a fancy new train set. The more international slots you have, the more International Trains you can dispatch at once.

Number of available International Slots was affected with the following Game Updates:
 * May 19, 2011
 * May 26, 2011
 * June 2, 2011
 * June 9, 2011
 * June 16, 2011
 * June 23, 2011
 * September 19, 2013 - Rebalanced most of International Slots, level requirements and/or prices reduced.
 * November 7, 2013 - Introduced new International Slots #27 - #31 (without completed Mahatma).

Technology Extensions
TrainStation offers six different technology upgrades you can purchase. Each of these upgrades helps you expand your train business in a different way.
 * Dieselisation, Electrification, and Maglev Era give you access to new types of trains.
 * The One-Click Wonders allow you to accomplish repetitive tasks by clicking once instead of many times.