Timeline of Events

This article is the history of Stepford County Railway since its creation. For the patch update list post-V1.0, see Changelog.

SCR Version 1.5 was a major update in SCR's history which introduced Guards to the game. Stepford Connect and Waterline received new liveries and logos.

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.

History

2017

• March 15th: SCR was founded, but wasn't released. Scripting and building of the game commences.
• November 25th: SCR was released to the public. Basic features included AWS, signal lights, auto-junctions and destinations. Stepford Connect commences services from Stepford Town to Port Benton and Stepford Airport Central.
• November 29th: 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 30th: Coxly Depot and the Class 333 were added in to alleviate traffic from Benton Depot.
• December 2nd: The testing of the AirLink line began and Bodin, Benton Bridge, Stepford Airport Parkway and Stepford Airport Central were remodeled. 
• December 3rd: Benton was remodeled for extra capacity. The Big Update was first revealed to the public. (Not released, just revealed).
• December 4th: Class 357 and Class 387 (Connect) was added.
• December 6th: Class 350 was added.
• December 11th: Special Christmas livery for Class 700 started.
• December 13th: Class 185 was added.
• December 15th: BanTech joins SCR as the Chief Development Officer (later renamed to the Innovations Director)
• December 16th: WaterLine services commenced and ran services from Benton to Greenslade. Class 165 and Class 166 were deployed on the line. This update also includes an upgrade on Benton and a new station, Angel Pass, gets added to the Stepford Connect mainline.
• December 18th: Class 387 (Connect) gets replaced by Class 377.
• December 21st: Class 387 was re-added for Waterline. Also, services on the Waterline have been extended to Newry and Newry Harbour.

2018

• January 1st: Class 170 was added.
• January 5th: Run button was added.

• January 9th: Benton was remodeled to what was until 1.7.0
• January 29th: Class 720 was added.
• March 20th: The New Operational Standards Manager, cg7033, was announced

• April 8th: The New Dispatch Controller, choclatesalty123, was announced

• April 9th: The 2 New Control Centre Managers, billythepet & AMAviation, were announced.

• April 21st: 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.

The Network in 2018

• May 27th: AMAviation resigned, leaving billythepet to be the only Head of Network Signalling

• June 12th: 1.1 was first announced to the public in the form of the Signaller's blue dot and the speed limits.

• June 14th: Rita Ora - Anywhere is removed for unknown reasons (possibly copyright reasons) and replaced by Nice Summer.

• July 4th: The temporary Head Driver, JiveOff, was announced.
• July 25th: JiveOff was transferred to Dispatch Controller and Mattyx2013 took his place as Head Driver.

• August 4th: Class 365 and Class 323 were announced, but never released.
• August 18th: 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 22nd: The new Stepford Central control board was announced
• November 1st: 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 4th: Many of the High Ranks roles were renamed. For example, the rank [PS] Platform Supervisor was renamed to [SDS] Senior Dispatcher.
• December 1st: 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 24th: #advent-calendar was renamed back to #sneak-peeks. 1.1 got an official release date at the same time, slated for December 31.

• December 31st: 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 9th: 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.
• January 23rd: choclatesalty123 resigned and Al_Vids took his place as Head of Platform Operations.

• January 25th: Class 332 is added.
• January 30th: Thehazard9 was transferred to People Director and Mattyx2013 took his place as Operations Director, with Tr_ain taking over as Head of Driver Operations.

• February 1st: Airport Terminal 1 & Airport Terminal 2 are added. Class 360 is also added. On the same day, Head of Driver Operations Tr_ain was announced.

• February 2nd: Airport Terminal 3 is added. Later that day, cg7033 resigned and JamieLDN (IslandLine) took his place as Head of Operational Standards.

• February 17th: Platform Repeaters were replaced with "OFF" Indicators. The repeaters along the line, however, remain.

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  V1.2 update poster

  April 28th: SCR Version 1.2: 6 new Stepford Connect stations open, which are: Stepford High Street, Whitefield Lido, Stepford UFC, Woodhead Lane, Houghton Rake and Whitefield.
• May 6th: SCR reaches 3 million visits! Class 331 is added.
• May 7th: BanTech announces that interiors will be coming to all trains, starting with the new Class 158
• May 8th: The Class 158 begins testing on Stepford Connect, being driven by Beta Testers.

  

  V1.3 update poster

• May 14th: SCR Version 1.3 releases with the first two NG trains, Class 158 and Class 508.

• May 24th: Next Generation Class 185 (Airlink) added, replacing the paper one.
• May 29th: Next Generation Class 185 (Connect) added, replacing the paper one.
• June 8th: The NG Class 377 replaces the paper one on Connect, the NG Class 379 replaces the paper Class 387 on WaterLine and Class 387 is added to AirLink.

• June 14th: A new Management Department called "Product Development" was created with yrrebRBLX being Head of Product Development. The role Workforce Data Analyst was removed to make way for Head of Product Development and users in the role were ranked to Mobile Operations Supervisor.

• June 24th: The new scenery between Stepford Central and Stepford East, created by yrreb, is released to the public.
• June 26th: Operations Director (Mattyx2013) announces the upgrade of Class 350, Class 357 and Class 360 to Next-Gen.
• July 2nd: BanTech announces the release of the concourse information boards, as well as additional station announcements.
• July 5th: The NG Class 357 and Class 350 replaces 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 7th: Class 458 revealed on Discord and Charlie announces an upgrade of SHB platforms 4-7.
• July 14th: Class 707 Next Generation revealed on Discord (Guessing game).
• July 21st: Class 707 and Class 360 are upgraded to Next Generation, St Helens Bridge upgraded and given detailed Scenery. New AirLink logo displayed.
• July 22nd: All servers are given a 20 player limit due to severe lag.
• July 24th: New Logo, New Uniforms and Dummy Driver added.

• July 26th: Operations Director (Mattyx2013) announces the upgrade of Class 68 to Next-Gen. Later said day, the role Head of Workforce Development was renamed to Head of People Engagement and the "Workforce Department" was renamed to "People Engagement".
• July 29th: Class 458 is added and Stepford United merch is available.

• August 7th: Class 68 was upgraded to a Next Generation train and Cambridge Street Parkway has been made dispatchable.
• August 14th: Class 458/0 released.
• August 21st: Sneak peek of the new Turbostar NG trains.
• August 31st: The Next Generation version of Class 170 and Class 171 came out with the ability to change routes at the terminus (Update added by BanTech Systems)
• September 3rd: BanTech Systems adds the "Click to zoom Preview" on CIS Boards.

• September 9th: Class 755 is revealed on the Discord,
• September 11th: A new Management Department called "Customer Relations" was created with the previous Head of Operational Standards cg7033 being Head of Customer Relations.

• September 16th: Five Million Update: Class 755 added, 2 new routes for AirLink; Stepford Airport Central <> Leighton Stepford Road and Airport Terminal 3 <> Leighton Stepford Road and Real-Life Merchandise was added via Teespring
• September 23rd: A new sneak peek on Discord revealed Westercoast and has previewed the Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
• September 25th: Language translation (French, Spanish, Polish, German and Dutch), Xbox and gamepad compatibility update, updated train movement and updated sensor detection system.
• September 28th: Next Generation Class 802 revealed on Discord and Twitter.
• September 29th: A second station, Faymere is revealed for the upcoming Llyn-by-the-Sea line.

• October 4th: Next Generation of Class 321 and Class 319 in Sneak peek
• October 5th: A third station, Northshore is revealed for the upcoming Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
• October 8th: A modern upgrade for Leighton City was announced as part of the update that adds the Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
• October 15th: A new entrance for Leighton City was revealed.
• October 16th: A fourth station, Starryloch is revealed for the upcoming Llyn-by-the-Sea line.
• October 18th: 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 20th: A new entrance for Llyn-by-the-Sea was revealed.
• October 25th: 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 26th: Thehazad9 resigned and cg7033 took his place as People Director.
• October 28th: An unknown route that says "20 stops" revealed on Discord.
• October 28th: Stece_Sama was promoted to Head of Driver Operations alongside Tr_ain.
• October 29th: OverheadWires resigned from Product Developer and Mattyx2013 resigned as Operations Director.
• October (date unknown): The entirety of SCR Version 1.4 is leaked by anonymous beta testers.^{[Citation Needed]}

• November 13th: The New Operations Director, ATEKGaming, was announced.
• November 19th: MortyOfficial was promoted to Head of Platform Operations alongside Al_Vids and TransportForWales was promoted to Head of Network Signalling alongside billythepet.
• November 25th: SCR reaches 6 million visits on its second anniversary, alongside a V1.4 status update.
• November 29th: Tr_ain resigns from Head of Driver Operations.

• December 1st: December 2019 advent calendar is launched. However, it isn’t update-related, causing some users to get angry.
• December 3rd: Michelleeeeeee was promoted to Head of Driver Operations alongside Stece_Sama

SCR on featured (15/12/2019)

• December 9th: 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 11th: 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 12th: SCR becomes plagued by a rash of game crashes.
• December 13th: 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 14th: 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 16th: 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.

• December 17th: SCR Version 1.4 released; Express added, Llyn-by-the-Sea line added, new routes. Doodgewoonbas was promoted to Head of People Engagement (now Head of Community Engagement or HCE) alongside SCR_AutoRank and JiveOff.

2020

• January 2nd: Mattyx2013 returned to the SCR development team as a Product Developer, alongside yrrebRBLX and thehazad9.
• January 3rd: 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.
• January 4th: SCR reaches 8 million visits.
• January 27th: The Class 720 was confirmed for a Next Generation upgrade, as well as a new depot: Faymere Green TMD. The sneak peek also included a shunting Class 08, which would only be used for scenery.

  

  New props and scenery revealed by Matty.

• January 30th: New benches, lamp posts and other props were revealed by Mattyx2013.
• February 1st: The updated SCR Roadmap was revealed, featuring a new priority system. A '???' feature (confirmed as Guard later in April) was introduced.

• February 6th: ATEKGaming and Stece_Sama confirmed for resignation from the roles of Operations Director (ATEKGaming) and Head of Driver Operations (Stece_Sama).
• February 7th: 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 19th: 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.
• February 22th: V1.4.1 was officially released, bringing the Next Generation Class 319, Class 321, Class 331, Class 465 and Class 720, new Class 195 for WaterLine, new Faymere Green TMD, new buffers, props and scenery and upgraded Leighton City, Whitefield, Stepford High Street, Stepford Central, Benton, West Benton, between Whitney Green and Greenslade and between Faymere and Edgemead.
• February 29th: Al_Vids resigns from the Head of Platform Operations role. cpc20514 was promoted to Head of Platform Operations, alongside MortyOfficial.

• March 2nd: The Class 707 was said to have some parts removed by the next update in an attempt to reduce lag, according to Mattyx2013.
• March 3rd: TransportForWales became Head of Operational Standards, leaving an empty Head of Network Signalling position which was taken by ThePolishDJ, now working alongside billythepet.
• March 4th: The optimised Class 707 was released. SCR also reached 9 million visits.
• March 6th: Class 332 and Class 333's Next Generation upgrade was revealed on Discord.
• March 8th: cpc20514 resigned from the Head of Platform Operations role, leaving an empty position.
• March 11th: Class 332 and Class 333's Next Generation upgrade released.
• March 12th: Jidansu was promoted to Head of Platform Operations, alongside MortyOfficial.
• March 13th: Jidansu resigned from Head of Platform Operations, leaving an empty position.
• March 16th: TheSiriusET was promoted to Head of Platform Operations, alongside MortyOff

• March 18th: 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.
• March 20th: ATEKGaming resigned from Operations Director and IslandLine took his place. ATEKGaming took IslandLine's place as Head of Operational Standards.

A mysterious train was sneaked peeked on March 26.

• March 26th: 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.
• March 28th: Another sneak peek was released, showing two Express Class 221s and a Class 220 in Stepford Central.
• March 30th: SCR reaches 50,000 Roblox Group members.

• April 1st: tpx_jm was promoted to a new role, Head of Brand Design.
• April 4th: ATEKGaming temporarily resigned from Head of Operational Standards and moved back to Leading Driver. FrostedPlasma13 replaced him as Head of Operational Standards.
• April 15th: Ten Million Update: SCR reached 10.0M visits, with Class 220 and Class 221 released. R079 and R027 added.
• April 17th: 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 20th: tpx_jm announced the Class 380 confirmed for Next Generation upgrade with a brand new, unique Stepford Connect livery.
• April 21st: ThePolishDJ stated on Discord that Stepford Connect is rebranding and the Class 380 livery will be on all trains.
• April 22nd: 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 24th: 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 26th: 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 28th: Product Developer Mattyx2013 says in a livestream that the Class 170, Class 331, Class 350, Class 377, Class 465, the Mark 3 coaches for the Class 68, the Class 171, the Class 195 and the Class 379 have been converted as of now and the Class 730's Next Generation upgrade was complete and to expect a sneak peek later.
• April 30th: The Class 730 Next 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 1st: 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.

  

  The new color for each Rank

  

  New liveries for Connect and Waterline shown here are Class 357, Class 68, Class 331, Class 170, Class 350, Class 377, Class 465, Class 508, Class 195, Class 171 and Class 379.

• May 2nd: Mattyx2013 posted sneak peeks of Class 357, Mk3 coaches for Class 68, Class 331, Class 170, Class 350, Class 377, Class 465, Class 508, Class 195, Class 171 and Class 379 bearing the new Connect and Waterline liveries.
• May 6th: Mattyx2013 posted sneak peek of new lighting at St Helens Bridge
• May 7th: 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 9th: SCR reached 11 million visits, however no announcement was posted.
• May 15th: 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 19th: Mattyx2013 posted a photo on Twitter of New Seats for Next Generation trains, starting with a rebranded and smoother Class 333.
• May 25th: SCR hits 60k group members. Mattyx2013 published a sneak peek of Coxly's scenery upgrade and new station signs.
• May 30th: 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 2nd: Another sneak peek was posted showing the new design for the Stepford Connect Headquarters which bears a resemblance to the new Stepford Connect livery.

  

  Renovation of Stepford Connect Headquarters.

• June 5th: OverheadWires rejoins SCR as a PDV.
• June 6th: Mattyx2013 showcases the new refurbished Class 720 with new Stepford Connect livery and confirms his resignation from the Product Developer role.
• June 8th: A new badge, The Weight of the World, is added, with a description of "Seriously? Climbing statues again?!"
• June 9th: SCR reaches 12 Million visits, but no announcement is made.
• June 11th: 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 14th: Product Developer yrrebRBLX posted a sneak peek on the SCR Discord of the new area around Stepford Victoria, that also showed the exterior of the new Stepford Victoria station.
• June 16th: Innovations Director BanTech posted a sneak peek showing a new Stepford Connect Class 730 to Westwyvern leaving platform 5 at Leighton Stepford Road station, showing redesigned signal S356.
• June 19th: 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 22nd: 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 24th: 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 25th: 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 GWR female announcer, replacing the old TTS (Text to Speech) computer-generated voice announcements.
• June 27th: cg7033 steps down as Relations Director on reflection of his personal actions within the community, with thehazad9 taking his place.
• June 28th: V1.6.3 was released to SCR with reduced lag and temporary 40 player servers as a trial.
• June 30th: SCR reached 13 Million visits, but no announcement was made.
• July 9th: 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 16th: Patch 4 was released at 23:00 BST containing the new training queue system and minor bug fixes.
• July 20th: ThePolishDJ resigned from the Head of Network Signalling role, leaving an empty position.
• July 21st: SCR reached 14 Million Visits, however the only change was 3 days later adding "[14M+]" in the title.
• August 11th: 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 17th: SCR reaches 100,000 favourites.
• August 20th: 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, it said "Version 1.7.0" in the corner.

The picture of the upgraded unknown station

• August 23rd: 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 was currently unknown, with debate among players on whether it is Hampton Hargate, Water Newton, or some other station. It is now known to be Water Newton once 1.7 released.

The picture of an upgraded Benton Bridge

• August 28th: 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 29th: 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 31st: 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 5th: 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 6th: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of an upgraded Bodin, saying "Just one of 2020 reasons to visit Bodin".
• September 8th: 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 14th: OverheadWires releases a sneak peek of remodelled Electrostars (Class 377 and Class 387), with the Class 377 being numbered 377/7.
• September 18th: 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 20th: 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 22th: Aeroware introduces himself as SCR's newest PDV and shows a work in progress Class 707.
• September 27th: Charlie_RBX releases a sneak peek of Upper Staploe, which was 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 30th: 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 2nd: metromaster00 was promoted to Head of Network Signalling, alongside billythepet.
• October 3rd: 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 5th: 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.

  

  Sneak Peek of the refurbished Benton

• October 7th: Managing Director Charlie_RBX posted a sneak peek of the refurbished Benton.
• October 10th: Head of Brand Design tpx_jm releases a sneak peek of an rebranded Express Livery.
• October 12th: eduardbnb was promoted to Head of Guard Operations, alongside FrostedPlasma13.
• October 17th: Head of Brand Design tpx_jm releases a sneak peek of a new suit, possibly a uniform.
• October 18th: Managing Director Charlie_RBX releases a new sneak peek of a renovated station. It is now know to be Beaulieu Park.
• October 23rd: SCR reaches 90,000 group members.
• October 28th:

  

  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.
• October 29th: The Head of Operational Delivery role is created, with metromaster00 and RLSJ1997 assuming it. thestargateking is promoted to Head of Network Signalling to replace metromaster00. On the same day, SCR Version 1.7 was released.

• November 7-8th: As a 2 year anniversary for SCR In-Game Shifts, Head of Network Signalling billythepet, hosted the first ever, 24 Hour Shift, the longest shift ever hosted in SCR history. There were multiple Supervisors and Managers that helped out for the multiple-part shift.

  

  Sneak Peek of the new depot.

• November 14th: Managing Director Charlie_RBX releases a new sneak-peek of a new depot. It is believed, that this depot is in or near Willowfield, due to the fact, that once you zoom in closely, you can see the station of Willowfield and it's commercial buildings, and the Classes 357 are bound to Willowfield and Stepford Victoria, if you look closely.
• November 28th: A new Product Developer named OriginalArkus joined SCR.

• December 6th: SCR reaches 100,000 group members. A new promocode was released for this. After the announcement was posted, BanTech updated the roadmap

BanTech updated the roadmap after SCR reached 100,000 group members

• December 25th: Added new promocode to celebrate Christmas and the first anniversary of Express.

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  Sneak peek posted by Charlie_RBX on 30/12/20

  December 30th: Managing Director Charlie_RBX posts a screenshot of an 801 interior with working PIS boards. Additionally, Charlie confirms this feature's presence in V1.7.1.

2021

• January 1st: SCR Version 1.7.1 is released. New features include working PIS boards, Training 2.0, and more. The update was criticised for being rushed and broken, such as doors opening on the wrong side, the inability to change ends at terminuses, the inability to spawn at Waterline and AirLink stations as a passenger, and the PISes displaying incorrect information. Eventually, they were fixed shortly.