Noxburgh North Junction

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## Noxburgh North Junction

North Junction station as seen from the bridge to Bibbinghaben

## ShuttleMetro

### Lines served by this station

Serena Line, McIntosh Line, Noxburgh Circle

### Platform level

Ground level, elevated

Noxburgh North Junction is a ShuttleMetro hub station located in the city of Noxburgh. It serves the nearby Noxburgh AeroDock, hotel, ShuttleMetro Global Headquarters, and the Noxburgh financial district. There are six platforms, serving two ShuttleMetro lines and the NDTA Noxburgh Circle. At ground level, the station is the current southern terminus of the Serena Line, and two platforms are reserved for the McIntosh Line, planned for future expansion. The upper platforms provide local, inner-city service on the Noxburgh Circle line.

The station building is made primarily out of bricks and smooth stone pillars, with accents of stone brick, sandstone and granite. The main shed is covered by a glass and blackstone vaulted ceiling, and a similar structure covers the upper platforms, which are accessed by means of an external tower and link bridge.

## Construction

The North Junction station was one of the earliest buildings constructed in the Combined District of Noxburgh and Bibbinghaben, and the first to be constructed in the city itself. After developing the zoning plan for the city and building parts of Bibbinghaben's town square, MCParradox grew tired of sailing to Edale in order to access the rest of civilisation, and decided to make the completion of the railway station his top priority. Getting the station running would not only allow MCParradox to easily leave the city, but would also bring in more frequent visitors, and hopefully builders.

The current site was selected for its prominence on the skyline, and to enable the construction of a long bridge accross the AeroDock to Spire Rock. The platforms would need to run north-south, a feat then thought impossible by ShuttleMetro CEO rshuttle1337, but MCParradox laid the platforms out anyway and began planning his revolutionary station design. Rather than copying the traditional layout, which has cart dispatch and return lines on the outside rail, under the platform, he instead routed all four of these functions underneath the central divider, creating an elegant and compact station format at only 3 blocks wide. All four mainline platforms are served by a single minecart dispenser system, using a complex series of switches to route carts the the correct platform.

With no prior experience in redstone, wiring the station up to function correctly was a big task. Nonetheless, with some experimentation, some inspiration from other stations on the network, and breaking the process down circuit by circuit, the construction process on the circuitry took just one day. The design of the station building itself took a further couple of weeks, and was loosely inspired by stations such as London St. Pancras. However, the station will not truly be finished until the long span bridge to Spire Rock is completed, or the elevated rails of the NDTA Noxburgh Circle.

## Gallery

North Junction mainline platforms under constructionNorth Junction mainline platformsThe NDTA Noxburgh Circle Line platform
## Trivia

* The station was the first element of the city to be planned after the AeroDock, and is an important aspect of the first stage of city development.
* Until the construction of this station, it was believed that this style of station could only be built on an east-west axis, but that proved to be untrue.
* This is the first station on the network to feature distinct platforms for each line, and features a revolutionary four-way minecart dispenser in the basement to serve them.

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