Elsemere Junction is a through station on the Morganstown Branch that was added in the Version 1.1 update. This station serves Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Beechley, Stepford Victoria, Stepford Central, Berrily and Morganstown; AirLink services to Stepford Central and Airport Terminal 2; and limited Stepford Express services to Stepford Central and Westwyvern. Outside are a few Commercial Buildings, including 'BenTach's Systemz'
Track & Platform Layout[]
<< >> Passing Service Direction
| Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use |
|---|---|
| 1 | Stepford Connect services to Berrily and Morganstown |
| >> | |
| << | Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Beechley, Stepford Victoria and Stepford Central |
| 2 | |
| 3 | AirLink services to Airport Terminal 2 Limited Stepford Express services to Westwyvern |
| >> | |
| << | Track for passing AirLink and Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
| << | AirLink and limited Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
| 4 |
<< >> Passing Service Direction
| Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| >> | |
| << | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Passing AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central, Airport Terminal 2 and Airport Terminal 3 Passing Stepford Express services to Llyn-by-the-Sea |
| >> | |
| << | Track for passing AirLink and Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
| << | |
| 4 |
Services[]
| Platform(s) | Previous station | Route | Next station |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Helens Bridge |  R007 |
Berrily |
| Elsemere Pond | R008 R027 R030 | ||
| New Harrow | R034 | ||
| 2 | Berrily | R007 |
St Helens Bridge |
| R008 |
Elsemere Pond | ||
| R027 | |||
| R030 | |||
| R034 |
New Harrow | ||
| 3 | Stepford East |  R053 |
Morganstown |
| Stepford Central |  R082 | ||
| St Helens Bridge | R059 |
Stepford Airport Parkway | |
| 4 | Morganstown | R053 |
Stepford East |
| R082 |
Stepford Central | ||
| Stepford Airport Parkway | R059 |
St Helens Bridge |
Station Announcements[]
Platform
Stepford Connect
There are no Elsemere Junction announcements for Waterline
AirLink & Stepford Express
Trivia[]
- The current version of this station resembles Worcestershire Parkway station.
- This station only has one passing track instead of two for both directions. The same goes for Angel Pass and Northshore.
- This may cause SPADs to occur when an AirLink or Stepford Express train is loading at Platform 3 and there is a train that skips this station behind it, as the speed limit is increased to 125 MPH before this station.
- Numerous commercial buildings make up some of the scenery near this station, including the famous PizzabyBilly.
- In V1.6, the platform signage changed to a bland black and white style.
- The same could be seen at Leighton Stepford Road, meaning both stations were not operated by any operators.
- Both of these stations were given new signs as part of the 1.7.0 update; Leighton Stepford Road received Stepford Express signage, and Elsemere Junction received AirLink signage.
- The new signage for this station also features a Transport For Stepford logo, which means that this station is also joint managed by Transport For Stepford.
- It is also the only AirLink station joint managed by Transport For Stepford.
- The new signage for this station also features a Transport For Stepford logo, which means that this station is also joint managed by Transport For Stepford.
- Both of these stations were given new signs as part of the 1.7.0 update; Leighton Stepford Road received Stepford Express signage, and Elsemere Junction received AirLink signage.
- The same could be seen at Leighton Stepford Road, meaning both stations were not operated by any operators.
- This is currently the only station that is operated by AirLink but not located in the Airport Zone.
- This is also currently the only station served by Stepford Express that is operated by AirLink, as Stepford Express does not go to Stepford Airport or the Farleigh District.[note 1]
- Prior to V1.10, only one AirLink service (R053) stopped here despite being operated by AirLink. After the aforementioned update, R059 (Stepford Central <> Airport Terminal 2) also stops here.
- In V1.7, Stepford Express started calling at this station when the operator started running through the Morganstown branch.
- Currently, only one Stepford Express service (R082) stops here.
- Prior to V1.8, even though Stepford Express serves this station, it was not available on their operator spawn options. If players wanted to spawn as a Passenger or a Guard at this station, they needed to use the AirLink or Stepford Connect list. This issue has now been fixed.
- This station has walking access to Berrily via a road placed on the side of several commercial buildings.
- This station and Elsemere Pond are the second closest stations on the network, with a distance of 0.26 miles between each other. The line between Port Benton and Morganstown Docks beats this by 0.09 miles with a distance of 0.17 miles apart.
- As a result, announcements do not say the stations the train will be calling at between these two stations because of the short distance.
- Currently, this station is one of the 6 triple-line junctions alongside Stepford Central, St Helens Bridge, Benton, Airport Terminal 2 and Leighton Stepford Road.
- However, unlike most triple-line and quad-line junctions, this station is not run by Network Rail or Transport For Stepford, being run by AirLink instead. This also applies to Airport Terminal 2 and Leighton Stepford Road, ran by AirLink and Stepford Express respectively.
- This is the only station on the Morganstown branch that was not overhauled in V1.7.
- This station was confirmed to be overhauled in V1.8 as seen in a sneak peek posted by Managing Director Charlie_RBX on 26 September 2021, evident by Signal A025 in the background and the CIS Boards in the background reading 'Welcome to Elsemere Junction'.
- Some have incorrectly speculated that the passing track will be removed for AirLink/Stepford Express trains to Stepford Central, as it is not seen in the image and appears to be facing Stepford City. This is because the sneak peek was facing the concourse which was on the west side at that time. However, this remained unconfirmed as the image is facing the direction towards Morganstown, not Stepford Central, with evidence of Signal A025 and the platform number.
- Ultimately, the passing track remained in V1.8 and the concourse has been moved to the eastern side of the station.
- Remodelled AWS ramps are also seen in the image, designed to be more realistic.
- Some have incorrectly speculated that the passing track will be removed for AirLink/Stepford Express trains to Stepford Central, as it is not seen in the image and appears to be facing Stepford City. This is because the sneak peek was facing the concourse which was on the west side at that time. However, this remained unconfirmed as the image is facing the direction towards Morganstown, not Stepford Central, with evidence of Signal A025 and the platform number.
- Before V1.8, this station was not dispatchable despite having OFF indicators.
- Elsemere Junction is unique for featuring platform deck detailing; this can also be seen at Financial Quarter.
- When the station announcer announces services for R082 (Stepford Central <> Westwyvern via Morganstown), the train announcer still says "Stepford Express, service to: Westwyvern, via, Morganstown." even though Elsemere Junction is already on the Morganstown Branch.
- This is one of only five stations to have a lift that serves more than two floors, the others being Stepford Central, Ashlan Park, Rocket Parade and Stepford Airport Parkway.
- This is the only station operated by Airlink that Stepford Express calls at.
Notes[]
- ↑ See Farleigh TMD Trivia.
Gallery[]
The old black and white platform signage in V1.6
Old Entrance (pre-V1.8)
Old Interior (pre-V1.8)
Old Platform View 1 (pre-V1.8)
Old Platform View 2 (pre-V1.8)
Old Platform View 3 (pre-V1.8)
Sneak-peek of the upgraded Elsemere Junction
Entrance to Elsemere Junction
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