St Helens Bridge (pronounced as Saint Helens Bridge) is an elevated major through and terminal station located on the edge of the Stepford City Zone. It is a major interchange for Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Beechley, Stepford Victoria, Stepford Central, Berrily, Morganstown, Port Benton, Stepford Airport Central, Leighton City, Edgemead, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea; AirLink services to Stepford Central and Stepford Airport Central; and Stepford Express services to Stepford Central, Benton, Leighton City and Llyn-by-the-Sea.
St Helens Bridge underwent a major overhaul as part of Version 1.0, and another as part of Version 1.3.18. The second remodelling included a scenery upgrade with the addition of a neighbourhood, changes to the tunnels underneath the platforms, and a new platform design (except Platform 1). The platform arrangement did not change, however. Some Stepford Express fast services skip this station as well as most AirLink services.
Track & Platform Layout
[- Terminus
<< >> Passing Service Direction
| Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use |
|---|---|
| 1 | Stepford Express services to Benton, Leighton City (via Benton) and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
| >> | |
| << | Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Stepford Connect services to Berrily, Morganstown, Port Benton, Stepford Airport Central, Leighton City, Edgemead, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
| >> | |
| [- | Terminating, Stepford Connect services to Edgemead and Westwyvern |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Beechley, Stepford Victoria and Stepford Central |
| << | |
| >> | AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central |
| 6 | |
| 7 | AirLink services to Stepford Central |
| << |
[- Terminus
<< >> Passing Service Direction
| Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use |
|---|---|
| 1 | Passing Stepford Express services to Benton, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
| >> | |
| << | Passing Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| >> | |
| [- | |
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| << | |
| >> | Passing AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central, Airport Terminal 2 and Airport Terminal 3 |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Passing AirLink services to Stepford Central |
| << |
Services
Announcements of St Helens Bridge
Platform
Stepford Connect
Waterline
AirLink & Stepford Express
Trivia
- This station was originally called St Helen's Bridge prior to The Big Update.
- Platforms 1 and 2 were formerly used by Stepford Connect services to and from Stepford Town (Stepford Central). They were redirected to Platforms 3 and 5 after trains started calling at Angel Pass. These platforms were back in use in V1.4 when Stepford Express started calling at this station.
- This station resembles Stratford Station, a station located in London.
- Platform 4 was unused until V1.0, when Stepford Connect trains started being able to terminate at this station from Leighton City, now from Edgemead and Westwyvern.
- This station lacked detail before The Big Update.
- Platforms 6 and 7 were unused until V1.1 when some AirLink services started calling here.
- This station is one of the 8 stations on the network operated by Transport For Stepford.
- The others are Stepford Victoria, Stepford Central, Stepford East, Morganstown, Benton, Leighton City and Llyn-by-the-Sea.
- Before V1.2, every Stepford Connect route stopped here. However, because of the release of the Whitefield Branch, this is not true anymore.
- This is one of the only stations that is still using old banner repeaters. However, this station has OFF indicators as well.
- This is one of the most popular dispatching locations in the game along with Stepford East. One dispatcher can dispatch all the Stepford Connect trains that stop here.
- On eastbound AirLink journeys, going to Stepford Airport Central, the next station is Berrily, but on westbound journeys, they come from Stepford Airport Parkway due to Berrily not having a westbound platform for AirLink trains.
- Currently, this station is one of the 5 Triple-line Junctions alongside Stepford Central, Benton, Leighton Stepford Road, and Elsemere Junction.
- The 77 arch-viaduct used by Stepford Express for services via Benton to the north-east of the station was built by FirstManchester135 and MAGICMOVIESTEAM1. It took them 4 hours and 32 minutes to build (excluding breaks), according to a plaque that was placed on 24 November 2017 at 8:41 PM. The plaque has since been removed.
- This viaduct used to lack in scenery before V1.7, when a small village was added under the viaduct.
- The speed limit for Stepford Express trains used to be 75 MPH, but it was increased to 90 MPH.
- In V1.7, a new arch-viaduct was made for Stepford Express trains that go via the Morganstown branch.
- This station was on Mattyx2013's sneak peek showing new game lighting.
- Out of any station, this station has the most stations that players can get to directly from it, at 11.
The new lighting at St Helens Bridge
- This station has step-free access.
- This station originally had the headcode "XTXX" until Leighton City took it in V1.8. It now has the headcode "XIXX".
- In V1.8, the Signal S141 at Platform 4 gets stuck as a Danger aspect even with no trains in front of it, the only way to fix is to either SPAD the signal, have a train at Platform 3 pass the Platform 3 signal and update the Platform 4 signal or to have a Signaller set the signal to Proceed. Despite this bug being said to have been fixed in V1.9, this bug persists as of V1.9.5.
Gallery
Logo of St Helens Bridge
Board of destinations
Old St Helens Bridge, featuring straight platforms
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