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James Street is an underground limited-service through station, providing Waterline services to Newry Harbour, Benton, Farleigh and Esterfield.

Track & Platform Layout[]

<< >> Passing Service Direction

Platforms/Tracks Services/Use
>> Waterline services to Farleigh and Esterfield
1
2 Waterline services to Newry Harbour and Benton
<<

<< >> Passing Service Direction

Platforms/Tracks Services/Use
>> Passing Waterline services to Esterfield
1
2 Passing Waterline services to Newry
<<

Services[]

Platform(s) Previous station Route Next station
1 Airport West
Waterline Emoji R016
to Esterfield
Farleigh
Waterline Emoji R018
to Farleigh
2 Farleigh
Waterline Emoji R016
to Benton
Airport West
Waterline Emoji R018
to Newry Harbour

Station Announcements[]

Platform
[note 1] Stepford Connect
Waterline
[note 1] AirLink & Stepford Express


Before 1.10[]

  • Prior to Version 1.10, the station was the terminal of a branch from Cambridge Street Parkway, infamous for its outdatedness. It was also the site of a long-awaited extension. Tracks continued past the station into tunnels. The tracks then turned red before exiting the tunnels, supposedly reminding BanTech that they needed to be replaced. There used to be an unnamed station, but it was deleted. The tracks then continue over the River Ben and out to the void forever.
  • Before V1.6, if a Driver attempted to go beyond the station or overshot the platform their train would be deleted immediately with a message saying "Invalid track detected". A buffer was added at the end of the platform in V1.6, so Drivers cannot be despawned with this message anymore.
  • Before V1.6, the Waterline platform signs at Benton did not mention this station.
  • Before V1.10, some people humourously viewed this station as cursed or creepy, since it was left virtually untouched from its release unlike many other stations on the network. This was also due to the fact that the surrounding area lacked any form of scenery whatsoever, and that the area was quite remote from other parts of the county.
  • The train frequency at this station used to be very low, due to the fact that only one route, R014, stopped here and very few drivers choose to drive Waterline. Even if they did, it is unlikely they would choose R014.
  • Prior to V1.10, if the player's render distance was high enough, they could see a purple building with an ATC tower west of the station, which was the building of Airport Terminal 2.
  • Before V1.10, this station and Upper Staploe both had no CIS Boards. CIS boards were added in V1.10.
  • This station used to be one of the multiple stations built in a trench, the others being Airport Terminal 3, Rocket Parade, Leighton Stepford Road, Leighton City and East Berrily.

Legacy gallery[]

Refurbishment[]

James Street was refurbished in V1.10, which involved filling in the old trench and digging a new underground station, adding a siding beyond the station towards Farleigh which is not used and has a train parked in it, and building a ticket office and new stairs and lifts down to the platform level from the surface.

The station entrance now resembles Farringdon station's Barbican entrance, while the station itself resembles London Paddington's Elizabeth line station, which can be seen from the light's designs above the platform.[1]

After V1.10, two new routes, R016 and R018 stop at this station.

Despite R014 being James Street's sole route that served it from V1.1 to V1.9, in V1.10, it was changed to now skip James Street, as well as being the only Waterline route that skips Waterline stations.

According to Mattyx2013, he designed a station model intended for Whitefield Lido at first, but then the model was changed to be used at James Street instead.[2]

  • The model was never used, possibly because of how the Airport area looks now.

Extension[]

  • The infamous James Street Extension was rumoured for years. Many thought it would release along with the Willowfield extension in V1.6, however it was not released in that update. Multiple Developers and Directors have confirmed the extension, but multiple recent updates have not included its release.
    Bantech confirming the James Street Extension
    • In January 2021, former Managing Director Charlie_RBX released a poll in the in the official SCR Discord Server, asking the community to select either the Waterline James Street Extension or a newly proposed Stepford Connect extension (somewhere between Leighton and Llyn) should be added as the final extension for SCR. As of 31 May 2021, James Street extension gained 5,575 votes while the Connect extension gained 2,096 votes.
    • Despite the calls for the James Street Extension are higher, the release of a sneak peek of an unknown Stepford Connect station on 22 August 2021 had once led to anticipations that the Waterline Extension was ultimately aborted. However, some suggested that the developers might decide to do both extensions.
    • Later during a Developer Q&A on 23 October 2021, Charlie_RBX confirmed the latter anticipation will take place, with the extension being built along with the Stepford Airport upgrade.
    • The extension was finally released in Version 1.10, along with the aforementioned upgrade.
  • It was originally planned to have more than one station past James Street, but former Managing Director Charlie_RBX said that the extension will be cut down to just one station due to the size of the Willowfield extension. However, a sneak peek of Farleigh and an unknown Waterline station published on 7 August 2022 and 24 July 2022 respectively prompted speculations in the community that there will be more than one station for the Waterline Extension.
    • It was eventually revealed that the Waterline Extension had three stations[note 2] instead of the expected two when V1.10 was released on 27 August 2022.

Trivia[]

JamesStreetEasterEgg

Easter Egg

  • Next to the station entrance, in an alleyway between a white building and a brown wall, there is a text saying "GREEISM WAZ HERE!" with 2 green paint products lying on the floor. These paint products seem to be manufactured by "Gree's Paint Factory", as it says on the left capsule. Greeism was one of the Platform Managers, who helped with the surrounding scenery for the update.
  • In V1.10, James Street is no longer a terminal station, therefore its headcode "J" was moved to Farleigh.
    • In V1.10, Airport Terminal 2 was rebuilt above ground, while James Street was rebuilt below ground.
  • There is a siding near this station with a not-in-service Class 730/0 parked in it, though no trains can spawn there as it is occupied and too short for another train.
    • Players thought that this siding would become another siding where trains can spawn due to a sneak peek showing James Street inside of the Class 730, however this was not the case, and the siding is purely decorative.
      • This was evident before Version 1.10 was even released due to the fact that in the sneak peek, signal D183 is shown as red, even though there is no other train inside James Street.
  • Although the network map shows James Street as a limited-service station, the Waterline operator map shows James Street as a regular-service station on the Esterfield Branch.
    • According to Product Developer tpx_jm, this is to show clearly that there are services that skips James Street on the network map. Though because 2 of the 3 routes stop at this station (and not less than 50% of routes), this station is not shown as limited in the Waterline operator map.
  • This station was supposed to be demolished and replaced by Farleigh, according to Mattyx2013. This would've made it the ninth station to ever be demolished, the other being Winstree[2].
  • This station is one of 2 fully underground stations; the other one being Airport Terminal 1.

Current Gallery[]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 These announcements were used in-game before the opening of the extension, however, are no longer used.
  2. Farleigh, Rosedale Village and Esterfield

References[]

  1. Stepford Sunday | V1.10 is here! #010 (28 August 2022). Mattyx2013 on YouTube. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Actual SCR Secrets (I Promise!) (29 September 2022). Mattyx2013 on YouTube.
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