Railway Network

Seacraft's **Railway Network** is a network of minecart tracks that span across Seacraft's major areas. It was originally made circa February 2014 during Seacraft Version 1, receiving two major overhauls in Seacraft 2.3 and Version 3.

With the railway system, there are four specially designed railway lines. Most train stations have two platforms for each railway line passing through it; one platform goes one way, the other platform goes the other way.

## Railway lines

Each railway line goes back and forth, meaning that there are two rails for each line. Different railway lines go to different places, although some locations are similar.

### Ocean Line

The Ocean Line will form the backbone of Seacraft's Railway Network, connecting to the other three railway lines. It passes through the following stations:

* The Great Redland (incomplete)
* Moose Forest
* Sunflower Town
* Spawn
* Shopping Centre
* Mainland Plaza
* Racehorse Stadium
* Sam's Dragon Village
* Ripped Earth

### Mainland Line

The Mainland Line is the line that services the Mainland Region. It passes through the following stations:

* Bombing Mines
* Crater Village
* Crater Plains
* Zoo
* Town
* Mainland Plaza

Uniquely, the line forms a loop around the Crater Plains, Zoo, Mainland Plaza and Town stations.

### Southern Line

The Southern Line services Seacraft's southern region. It runs through the following stations:

* Racehorse Stadium
* Seacraft Castle
* Freebuild
* Sam's Dragon Village

### Northern Line

The Northern Line will service Seacraft's north. It will run through two stations at release:

* Stagnant Swamps (incomplete)
* Sunflower Town

## Train stations

### Locations

There are Train Stations at:

* Sunflower Town (3 platforms)
* Spawn (2 platforms)
* Mainland Plaza (4 platforms)
* Zoo (2 platforms)
* Crater Plains (3 platforms)
* Sam's Dragon Village (3 platforms)
* Racehorse Stadium (3 platforms)
* Seacraft Castle (2 platforms)
* Bombing Range (2 platforms)
* Freebuild (2 platforms)
* Town (2 platforms)
* Stagnant Swamps (2 platforms)
* Crater Village (2 platforms)
* Moose Forest (2 platforms)
* Shopping Centre (2 platforms)
* Ripped Earth (2 platforms)
* The Great Redland (2 platforms)

## Railway structures

Most of the railways are built underground in tunnels, but there are some other fairly significant railway structures.

### New Triple Arch Bridge

The original bridge was constructed in Seacraft 2.0 by zac5. It was made on the railway line between Spawn and Mainland Plaza. The Triple Arch Bridge was widened in Seacraft 2.3 to support four rails, which were part of the South-Western and East-Western lines.

However, this bridge was moved to Freebuild, and a new bridge was built in its place as part of the Version 3 railway overhaul. It was named the New Triple Arch Bridge

### Seacraft Suspension Bridge

The Seacraft Suspension Bridge, constructed in October 2014 for Seacraft 2.2, serves as part of the railway connection between the Mainland Plaza and Racehorse Stadium stations. The railway runs underneath the bridge's pedestrian area.

### New Intersection Bridge

The Intersection Bridge was reconstructed during the Renovation Period by ItsMoose which now featured a railway line underneath, meant to serve the connection between Sunflower Town and Moose Forest.

## History

### Prior to Seacraft 2.3

   Before Seacraft 2.3, train stations were very simple. They had multiple 'doors' with rails that went to all nearby locations. All of the train stations had the same basic design, only differing in size.

When it was first founded, railway stations were featured in the following locations:

* Spawn
* Mainland Plaza
* Zoo
* Bombing Range
* Sam's Dragon Village
* Seacraft Castle
* Freebuild

The Railway Network barely saw expansion, only ever adding the Town station in Seacraft 2.0.4 and the Animal Range station in Seacraft 2.2.

### Underground Expressway

The Underground Expressway was constructed as part of Seacraft 2.2. It was constructed between the Sam's Dragon Village and Seacraft Castle stations. It was made because the old overground railway was getting really annoying as animals were interfering with the railway line. This tunnel was the longest railway tunnel at the time of its creation.

### Seacraft 2.3 overhaul

A major railway overhaul was planned for Seacraft 2.3. The intention of this new railway network was to have a completely automated network of minecarts circulating a series of dedicated railway lines. Three railway lines were planned, laid out in such a way such that you could go from one station to another without changing platforms. These lines were called the South-eastern, South-western and East-western lines.

For this new network two new train stations were planned, one at the developing Racehorse Stadium and one at New Town (which was later renamed Sunflower Town). The Animal Range station was also replaced by the Crater Plains station, designed to serve both the Animal Range and the amusement park in Old Mountains.

The South-western line was built first, and was the only line released for Seacraft 2.3. The other two lines were postponed to Seacraft 2.3.5 because 2.3 had taken long enough to release already.

### Further expansion

Seacraft 2.4 planned to release some new locations, some planned and some unplanned. As such, new railway lines were proposed to accommodate these locations. The Civilisation line was designed mainly to service new stations at Ripped Earth and Crater Village, connecting them to other major locations. The Underwater line was built for new stations at the Shopping Centre and Moose Forest. Furthermore, the existing South-western and East-western lines were extended to Stagnant Swamps.

This entire expansion was released as part of Seacraft 2.4.

### Version 3 overhaul

ZacNVR was unhappy with the unnecessary complexity of the old railway system and the unsightly nature of the existing train stations and infrastructure. He also wished to give the railway system some real purpose, since it isn't a particularly fast transportation system. The existing Warp Rooms and the new Warp Book did a better job at player transportation. Instead, ZacNVR hoped the railway system could offer a scenic route of the server.

As such the network was planned to be more overground, and to make any necessary tunnels more interesting and less repetitive. Additionally there would be little overlap of railway lines, reducing the complexity of railway stations and reducing the amount of infrastructure to be built.

Specifically, four railway lines were planned. The Ocean line would serve as the backbone of the railway network, extending east to west from Ripped Earth to a new station at The Great Redland. The other three lines would connect to an Ocean line station and serve Seacraft's periphery: the Mainland line, the Northern line, and the Southern line.

## Trivia

* Mainland Plaza has always has the most platforms of any station in all 3 versions of the railway network.