Here are some important events to have happened in the history of the Stepford County Railway, such as the Big Update, addition of the Next Generation trains which have interiors unlike legacy trains, introduction of Stepford Express, as well as some alterations of Supervisors and above.
November 29: The Class 321 was added, Winstree officially opens to the public and the SCR Official Discord in its current incarnation was started, with DS RoseTaylorMurray sending the first message in #stepford-related.
November 30:Coxly Depot and the 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.
July 26: The role Head of Workforce Development was renamed to Head of People Engagement and the "Workforce Department" was renamed to "People Engagement".
July 29:Class 458 is added and Stepford United merch is available.
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 returned 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. Stece_Sama never actually did resign from the role so there weren't any changes made in that department.
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 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 Bombardier Voyager family) was revealed. Given due to the purple color scheme, this could be a new Express train. The community quickly identified it as a train from the Voyager family.
April 4: ATEKGaming temporarily resigned from Head of Operational Standards and moved back to Leading Driver. FrostedPlasma13 replaced him as Head of Operational Standards.
April 17: BanTech posted a sneak peek of an excel sheet, supposedly for testing purposes, with the message saying "Testing various features of your Version 1.5.0..."
April 21: ThePolishDJ stated on Discord that Stepford Connect is rebranding and the Class 380 livery will be on all trains.
April 22: Mattyx2013 has announced the Next Generation Class 165 and Class 166, leaving the Class 730 to be the last Previous Generation train. Also, the train in the sneak peek appears to be a double configuration of the Class 165 or an Class 165/166 5-car variant.
April 24: SCR’s “Change Is Coming”, which announced the upcoming Guard rank, was premiered on YouTube at 20:00 GMT. This was confirmed to be the "???" feature on the roadmap, as well as V1.5.
April 26: The Guard, Senior Guard and Head of Guard Operations were added to the group. Also the new SGDs and HGO have got their role. TransportForWales and FrostedPlasma13 were transferred to HGO, leaving HOS empty for a few hours until hv9690 and RLSJ1997 were promoted to HOS.
April 30: The Class 730Next Generation has been sneak peeked. That mean there will be no Previous Generation trains in SCR after v1.5. Later BanTech revealed a new sneak peek showing what will the driver see when a guard request to guard his train and yet another showing Guard's panel.
May 1:SCR Version 1.5 was released at 23:00 BST. Also, new colors for The Ranks have been revealed and were also released. Player limit of new servers are increased from 20 to 30 to accommodate guards in the server while keeping the same amount of drivers and dispatchers in the server the same as before.
May 6: Mattyx2013 posted sneak peek of new lighting at St Helens Bridge
May 7: BanTech posted a sneak peek of a reservation system for training sessions, patch 1 for V1.5 released with new lighting and training reservation system. The server was rebooted several times due to bugs.
May 9: SCR reached 11 million visits, however no announcement was posted.
May 15: BanTech published on Discord a sneak-peek of the new training system (training 2.0).
A overview of the new training system (training 2.0)
May 19: Mattyx2013 posted a photo on Twitter of New Seats for Next Generation trains, starting with a rebranded and smoother Class 333.
May 25: SCR hits 60k group members. Mattyx2013 published a sneak peek of Coxly's scenery upgrade and new station signs.
May 30: A sneak peek showing a refurbished Stepford Victoria station was posted, along with new signage for the station. The official SCR Instagram account is revealed in an announcement later in the day and Leading Driver was renamed to Lead Driver.
June 2: Another sneak peek was posted showing the new design for the Stepford Connect Headquarters which bears a resemblance to the new Stepford Connect livery.
June 8: A new badge, The Weight of the World, is added, with a description of "Seriously? Climbing statues again?!"
June 9: SCR reaches 12 Million visits, but no announcement is made.
June 11: A sneak peek of upgraded scenery between City Hospital and Stepford Central and a redesigned signal is posted by BanTech in the SCR Official Discord with a note saying there is 'lots to share soon'.
June 19: Innovations Director BanTech posted an announcement in the SCR discord about new training queues. It was "For anyone concerned about the training reservation issues and getting onto a session". Following the announcement hours later, Charlie_RBX posted a sneak peek of an another angle of the new Coxly station, which the picture also revealed the rebranded Class 158 and Class 185.
June 22: Managing Director Charlie_RBX posted a sneak peek of Morganstown Docks station, with a Class 171 standing at platform 4 and another train on the bridge connecting the station to Morganstown, meaning that the Morganstown Shuttle will be active. Also, new Waterline signs for stations are to be seen on the sneak peek. Later that day, Charlie posted an image of a Class 68 and a rainbow livery Class 331 at a new station named Beechley. V1.6 is released with a new Willowfield extension. All Waterline and Stepford Connect trains have been rebranded with the new livery.
June 24: V1.6.1 was released for data migration. About an hour later after the update was released, Innovations Director BanTech posted an announcement on the SCR Discord saying that Managing Director Charlie_RBX was been incorrectly terminated from Roblox after uploading a new audio file for announcement sounds (according to their Discord). BanTech stating "We're contacting Roblox to restore the account at which point we will be able to address any data migration issues affecting some of you". Due to the reaction from the players in the SCR Discord, they had to close all of their channels (except voice channels) until the issue was resolved. A few hours later, Charlie_RBX was unbanned and the Discord channels reopened. Later it was told that Charlie_RBX got his account terminated for "inappropriate username" after a Roblox moderator thought the word Bodin in new announcement files is an inappropriate word mistakenly.
June 25: BanTech posted at #sneak-peek on SCR Discord with the new train Announcements. They are released as v1.6.2 later that day, in which the in-train announcements have been changed to human announcements from a real-life UK female announcer, replacing the old TTS (Text to Speech) computer-generated voice announcements.
June 27: cg7033 steps down as Relations Director on reflection of his personal actions within the community, with thehazad9 taking his place.
June 28: V1.6.3 was released to SCR with reduced lag and temporary 40 player servers as a trial.
June 30: SCR reached 13 Million visits, but no announcement was made.
July 9: BanTech announces on Discord that a new training system will go live on 16 July, at 23:00 BST. Also, on 11 July at 11:00 BST, new reservations will no longer be accepted, but BanTech reassured players that already booked trainings will remain. The new system let players select 3 hour slots in which they were available, so they would only be allocated to trainings within the times they had selected. Once you are in the queue, you will be informed of your position and can change slot preferences without losing the spot.
July 16: Patch 4 was released at 23:00 BST containing the new training queue system and minor bug fixes.
July 20: ThePolishDJ resigned from the Head of Network Signalling role, leaving an empty position.
July 21: SCR reached 14 Million Visits, however the only change was 3 days later adding "[14M+]" in the title.
August 11: Second rebranding of Airlink with Class 802 having a complete remodel sneak peeked on the Discord server. The surroundings in the picture are also unknown.
August 17: SCR reaches 100,000 favourites.
August 20: BanTech releases a sneak peak of the new signalling display and CCTV and V1.6.5 is released at 21:00 BST containing the updated Class 802. On the CCTV sneak peek video, you can see it says "Version 1.7.0" in the corner.
The picture of the upgraded unknown station
August 23: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of an upgraded station, saying some significant renovations are going on on the mainline. The station shown in the sneak peek is currently unknown, with debate among players on whether it is Hampton Hargate, Water Newton, or some other station.
The picture of an upgraded Benton Bridge
August 28: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of an upgraded Benton Bridge, saying that it's all coming soon in the next big SCR update.
August 29: The following day after the sneak peak of Benton Bridge (the station)'s upgrade, Charlie_RBX posts a sneak peak of Benton Bridge (the structure), showing that it's been into a large suspension bridge with several ships in the surrounding waters.
August 31:Innovations Director BanTech posted a sneak peek of the new train list for the new manual signalling system.
The sneak peek of the upgraded station posted on September 5.
September 5: Charlie_RBX releases another sneak peek of an unknown station (at the time), "courtesy of Thehazad9." It was later confirmed to be Morganstown by RLSJ1997 to Signallers on or around September 27.
September 6: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of an upgraded Bodin, saying "Just one of 2020 reasons to visit Bodin".
September 8: BanTech releases a video on his YouTube channel showing a demo of the new manual signalling system.
The sneak peek of the remodelled Class 377 and 387 posted on September 14.
September 14: OverheadWires releases a sneak peek of remodelled Electrostars (Class 377 and Class 387), with the Class 377 being numbered 377/7.
September 18: BanTech posted a recruitment notice on Roblox Developer Forum, looking for a new PDV to upgrade trains [1]. In the end, a new PDV named aeroware was hired.
The sneak peek of the upgraded East Berrily on September 20.
September 20: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of an upgraded East Berrily. It may appear blurry, but if you zoom in on the picture and look closely at the text on the station name sign to the right of the picture, you can see it says East Berrily.
September 22: Aeroware introduces himself as SCR's newest PDV and shows a work in progress Class 707.
September 27: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of Upper Staploe, currently an unused station. The sneak peak shows the upgraded station with 2 tracks instead of 4 and part of a station name sign on the very left of the image which says "loe".
September 30: IslandLine steps down to HOS while hv9690 assumes his position. The Relations Director and Head of People Engagement roles have been renamed to Community Director and Head of Community Engagement respectively.
October 3: tpx_jm releases a sneak peek of a desktop wallpaper containing a small snippet of the map presumably for V1.7. Looking at it, it looks like Stepford Express will be rebranded and going via Morganstown starting in that update, making Morganstown the first station to serve all 4 operators in SCR.
October 5: TransportForWales resigns from Head of Guard Operations, leaving an empty position. Later the same day, JiveOff transfers from HCE to PDV, leaving an empty position in the HCE role. Later then, Innovations Director BanTech posted a sneak peek of the new interior of the Class 707 taken by Product Developer aeroware.
October 17:Head of Brand Design tpx_jm releases a sneak peek of a new suit, possibly a uniform.
October 18:Managing Director Charlie_RBX releases a new sneak peek of a renovated station. Some people believe that this is Beaulieu Park station, while others think it is New Harrow or any other station. The renovated station is currently up for debate.
October 23: SCR reached 90,000 group members.
October 25: The SCR server rebooted twice on 12:20 UTC, and 01:10 UTC on the following day. The two reboots caused much speculation from some members in the community that Version 1.7 is releasing, but ultimately the two reboots were just bug fixes and change in in-game time as Europe ends daylight saving time.
October 28:
Sneak Peek of the new Class 801.
A sneak peek of Class 801 with the new Express livery has been relased on the SCR Discord. Later that day, OverheadWires posts a picture of an upgraded Class 379 on his Instagram account.
