Rubidium wrote:

Making trains skip waypoints when they pass them during other orders gives generally more problems; it's harder to implement and when there's a splitting junction after the waypoint and before the depot trains can go to a wrong part of the network instead of looping back via the waypoint.

There are few options to solve the problem for you:
- move the waypoint further away from the depot; service depots only get found when within 16 tiles, which means that if the waypoint is 16 or more tiles before the depot it will not change to a "service in depot order" and therefor not skip the waypoint.
- insert "service at " orders; then the train will not automatically search for depots (within 16 tiles), but it will check whether it needs to go to a depot when it arrives at the order and you could place that order after the waypoint order.

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Breaks player's expectations. Orders are orders. IF a waypoint is the next order, that's where the train should go.

Flyspray clean up: more than 5 years old, and not implementing, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks.

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