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> and motivate more people to take trains.

If you build a train that does what I need without requiring copious amounts of my spare time, I might take it. If you don't then your only "motivation" boils down to "reducing options until the train is all that is left."

People need infrastructure that meets their demands. If it works, they'll be plenty motivated.

This. My new office (a 25 minute drive off peak) is unusual in having a train station nearby, but to get there I need to take a bus to a different train in the wrong direction, in all a 90 minute ordeal (worse off peak).

Door-to-door transport is here to stay, despite any idealised vision of everyone moving to a train schedule.

Trains somehow manage to be more expensive than cars, even in countries that subsidise them, despite having massively more throughput. Until that problem is solved I don't see people choosing them over cars.