It needs some more dynamics indeed. Perhaps some different, zoomed-in, view when closing a station. Like the Japanese consoles.
Just spitting some ideas:
- Add increasingly more controls, horn for passing a station, bell for overpasses, lever for opening/closing the doors, remote controls for railway switches, to the point it gets absurd (see Spaceteam).
- Railway switches to bypass certain stations, events or entities by switching to another lane. Whilst making sure you don't miss your required stations of course.
- A reward... by far the toughest one, try to avoid a "score" as reward, but it needs something.
- Dark-mode, not horror (please no more indie horror games), but a darker view, not a fan of being flash-banged while gaming :)