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 |
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1 | Stepford Express services to Benton, Leighton City (via Benton) and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
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<< | 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 |
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[- | Terminating, Stepford Connect services to Edgemead and Westwyvern |
4 | |
5 | Stepford Connect services to Willowfield, Beechley, Stepford Victoria and Stepford Central |
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>> | AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central |
6 | |
7 | AirLink services to Stepford Central |
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[- Terminus
<< >> Passing Service Direction
Platforms/Tracks | Services/Use |
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1 | Passing Stepford Express services to Benton, Westwyvern and Llyn-by-the-Sea |
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<< | Passing Stepford Express services to Stepford Central |
2 | |
3 | |
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4 | |
5 | |
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>> | Passing AirLink services to Stepford Airport Central, Airport Terminal 2 and Airport Terminal 3 |
6 | |
7 | Passing AirLink services to Stepford Central |
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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.
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