How to make my trains go through stations

I have a problematic train line that I had built originally for one to two trains, but now must support five, and I can't take it down and rebuild it for all five because of space constraints.

Originally I had a part of the main path contain a stop for my plastic factory. With trains stopping there for 60+ seconds created lots of clogged-up points. I added a small path around it so that trains could go around it when the station was full. This seemed to work at first, but then I realized that they would pile up at the split between the path with the train stop and the one without as unless the train was set to go to that stop, they would never go down the path with the stop.

Is there any way to make it so that the trains will see the path with the train stop as a viable path instead of just going around and ignoring it?

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How do I set up a satisfactory train station?

The train station allows tourists to travel to and from the city. Place the station and connect it to the rails leading out of the city to allow trains to come and go automatically. You can also connect to other part of your city as well just don't put this near residential areas but at least a little distance away.

How do you use the train station in cities skylines?

Docking. Trains on autopilot will automatically dock upon arriving at the station. Manually driven trains can be docked by positioning the first locomotive at the station, stopping, and then choosing the "Dock" option in the self-driving menu.

How do you manually dock a train satisfactory?

Trains can only drive forwards automatically. An automatic train can drive forwards and backwards when two locomotives facing different directions are connected to the train.

OpenTTD Tutorial #5 - Stations, Trains and Tracks (Beginner Railways)

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