November 25th: SCR was released to the public. Basic features included AWS, signal lights, auto-junctions, and destinations. Stepford Connect commences services between Stepford East and Port Benton. Stepford Town was added later.
November (Date unknown): The entirety of SCR is leaked. Coxly Depot and Class 333 were added in to alleviate traffic from Benton Depot.
April 21: The Big Update (SCR Version 1.0) is released. New features include the new driver GUI and new stations, as well as smarter signal systems and some changes to stations/tracks. Six stations were added.
August 18: The day we all waited for. SCR reaches 1 million visits! As a thank you from Charlie, he released the surprise One Million Update.
September 22: The new Stepford Central control board was announced
November 1: A new official way of roleplaying in Stepford County Railway, In-Game-Shift held its grand opening. This was innovated by then [SG] Quality_Content1 and is run by him and [HNS] Billythepet.
November 4: Many of the High Ranks roles were renamed. For example, the rank [PS] Platform Supervisor was renamed to [SDS] Senior Dispatcher.
December 1: The Sneak Peek Advent Calendar for the upcoming SCR Version 1.1 began. The #sneak-peeks channel in the Discord was renamed to #advent-calendar for this occasion. There were 24 sneak peeks shown, with one being posted daily.
December 24: #advent-calendar was renamed back to #sneak-peeks. 1.1 got an official release date at the same time, slated for December 31.
December 31: At 12:00 UTC, SCR Version 1.1 was released. Many features like AirLink, lots of new infrastructure and rolling stock, and many other changes were added, and a new High Rank Department called "Workforce Development" was created with JiveOff being Head of Workforce Development and Thewelsh1 being a Workforce Data Analyst.
2019
January 9: Signallers are finally earning points by signaling, ranging from (3 points + 1 exp)/min to (12 points + 4xp)/min on V1.1 Patch 3. The level crossings at New Harrow, Elsemere Pond, and East Berrily were fixed. Also, special badges are now awarded.
July 2: BanTech announces the release of the concourse information boards, as well as additional station announcements.
July 5: The NG Class 357 and Class 350replaces the paper version of the aforementioned trains, Concourse Information Boards are added, and all servers are given a 45 player limit during the weekend.
July 7:Class 458 revealed on Discord and Charlie announces an upgrade of SHB platforms 4-7.
August 21: Sneak peek of the new Turbostar NG trains.
August 31: The Next Generation version of Class 170 and Class 171 came out and people were able to change routes at ending stations (Update added by BanTech Systems)
September 25: Language translation (French, Spanish, Polish, German, and Dutch), Xbox and gamepad compatibility update, updated train movement, and updated sensor detection system.
October 5: A third station, Northshore is revealed for the upcoming Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
October 8: A modern upgrade for Leighton City was announced as part of the update that adds the Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
October 15: A new entrance for Leighton City was revealed.
October 16: A fourth station, Starryloch is revealed for the upcoming Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
October 18: Class 43 was previewed on the SCR official Discord and Twitter, also revealing the terminus and the fifth sneak peek of the upcoming extension, Llyn-by-the-Sea.
October 20: A new entrance for Llyn-by-the-Sea was revealed.
October 25: A photo with a sign saying"LINE B" and a speed 30 limit was revealed on both the discord and twitter but the post on twitter said "Line A or Line B" so we can know the other sign have Line A written on it.
October 26: Thehazad9 resigned, and cg7033 took his place as People Director.
October 28: An unknown route that says "20 stops" revealed on Discord.
December 9: Following an announcement regarding the release of "an update" (possibly 1.4) this week which aroused wild rumors, SCR is placed as a featured ROBLOX game for a week, increasing the player traffic on SCR.
December 11: The Stepford Express line map header was revealed, confirming that the main colour of the line is going to be purple, however the line colour was known by the public previously as the Class 43 is coloured purple as well.
December 12: SCR becomes plagued by a rash of game crashes.
December 13: BanTech announces on Discord that 1.4 is ready for release, barring tweaks to route timings and finding the source of the crashes with the help of Roblox engineers.
December 14: V1.4 release date revealed for 16/12/19. BanTech announces on Discord that the issue has been found, and a temporary fix to prolong the amount of time before a crash is implemented. The cause is described as "a strange case of the server collisions memory increasing and never coming back down - it just rises forever. Essentially, the server runs out of memory."
December 16: SCR has reached 7 million visits. cg7033 announces that 1.4 has been delayed once again while Roblox engineers fix the memory leak issue. Later that day, BanTech announces that Roblox has the fix, and also admits to the existence of a Class 801.
After months of waiting, robloxians finally got to drive and ride Stepford Express.
January 2: Mattyx2013 returns to the SCR development team as a Product Developer, alongside yrrebRBLX and thehazad9.
January 3: Class 331 and Class 465 confirmed for Next Generation upgrades, along with a much-awaited renovation to Whitefield station, all sneak peeked in one photo posted by Mattyx2013.
February 7: ATEKGaming was persuaded to return to the Operations Director role.
February 19: The V1.4.1 update was accidentally released early to the live servers. BanTech made an official statement later in the day confirming that 1.4.1 wasn't meant to be released at the time, but was a Roblox Studio bug.
March 12: Jidansu was promoted to Head of Platform Operations, alongside MortyOfficial.
March 13: Jidansu resigned from Head of Platform Operations, leaving an empty position.
March 16: TheSiriusET was promoted to Head of Platform Operations, alongside MortyOfficial.
25% Discount Message
March 18: 2nd upgrade of Stepford Central revealed and soon released by PDV, yrrebRBLX. This also includes the relocation of the former ROC to the newly updated Stepford Central, along with a 25% discount on trains and routes due to the COVID-19. Meanwhile, the '???' feature was accidentally removed from the roadmap, which was re-added later.
A mysterious train was sneaked peeked on March 26.
March 26: An unknown special train (one of Bombadier Voyager family) was revealed. Given due to the purple color scheme, this could be a new Express train.
