North West Line (Gardellia Mainlines)

Gardellia Mainlines - North-West Line
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Overview
Type	Commuter Rail
System	Gardellia Mainlines
Status	Operational
Termini	Cranbrook, Dorval
Stations	33
Services	1
Operation
Opened	26 December 2016; 3 years ago
Last extension	28 September 2019; 8 months ago
Operator(s)	TransHaven
Character	Fully Elevated
Depot(s)	Dorval, Harton-on-the-Hill, Sint Maartenstad, Cranbrook
Rolling stock	-
Technical
Line Length	-
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz AC OHLE
Operating speed	144km/h (89 mph)
Route Map
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Formerly known as the Gardellia Mainlines Blue Line, the Gardellia Mainlines North-West Line is one of the seven Gardellia Mainlines in service.

The line opened on the 26th of December, 2016, along with the North-East (formerly Red), and Central Peninsular (formerly Yellow) lines.

Originally spanning 19 stations, the line has almost doubled in length. Comprising of 33 stations, inclusive of a shell station, the North-West Line is one of the longest Mainlines.

The line is coloured in light blue on the mainline map.

Alignment

The North-West Line runs from NW-S15 Dorval in the south to NW-N17 Cranbrook in the northwest via NW-N9 Sint Maartenstad (formerly Kralyn) as an interchange station to the Circular Line. It also serves the Central Station, which is a major interchange station. From Dorval, it traverses through the snowy plains with small hills and heads east. The line turns north just before NW-S2 Averleigh into plains. It then shares tracks with the Central Peninsula line to NW-N2 Gospley. The North-East line also shares its tracks with the line between Averleigh and NW-N1 Castelnau Le Lez via Central City. From Gospley, the line heads west to NW-N3 Palm Ridge and turns north into NW-N4 New Oak, a desert. The North-West Line then enters the mountain ranges, which ends in swampy NW-N8 Jinol. The line continues into plains fields up to Cranbrook via Sint Maartenstad.

History

In conjunction with the December 2016 opening of New Gardellia, several rail lines were constructed. The government was in charge of the construction of the North-West Line, led by then head architect GukkyGukz. By November 2016, the line was mostly completed from Central City to NW-N6. The remaining sections were completed, and the first section between NW-N10 North Kralyn (now Sint Maartenstad - Medem) and Central City opened on 26 December 2016. New Gardellia gained popularity after several months, which increased demand for more stations to be built. When the world border was expanded, an extension was planned. The Blue Line Cranbrook Extension was completed and opened on 7 January 2018, with 7 additional stations. Due to the low amount of stations available, priority was given to players who had no Gardellia claims yet.

In 2019, the government initiated a Gardellia South Expansion Project, which included another extension to the southwest. The first phase of the extension was to NW-S7, which was completed in April 2019 but not open to the public. Another extension to NW-S15 was contracted out several months later in September 2019. Entetsu WH and VRT acquired the contract for WHD 40,000. It was completed in a month, and the extension opened on 28 September 2019, increasing the total number of stations by 13.

List of stations

Station Number	Station Name	Station Claimant	Interchange/Notes
NW-S15	Dorval	MatthieuTofu
NW-S14	Windsbury	Delected_
NW-S13	Nansei	pitthree
NW-S12  CC-SXX	Vilyamgrad	Wilhelm57	Interchange station with Circular line (in 2020)
NW-S11	Foxtown	FedFox
NW-S10			Unclaimed
NW-S9	Testa Civitas	Kovacs_
NW-S8	Aerius	traxikaofficial
NW-S7	Bruhtown	Plixonz	Future interchange station (in 2021)
NW-S6	Frosty River	mi_aquamarine
NW-S5	Proville	superminecraftL
NW-S4			Unclaimed
NW-S3	Averleigh	Vroomba
NW-S2  NE-S2  CP-S2	Averleigh	Vroomba	Interchange station with North East and Central Peninsular lines
NW-S1  NE-S1  CP-S1	Game Island	SilverWolv
GC	Central City	Gardellia	Interchange station with North East, Central Peninsular, Northern Connector and Island lines
NW-N1  NE-N1  CP-N1   NC-N1  IS-N1	Castelnau Le Lez	SilverWolv
NW-N2  CP-N2   NC-N2  IS-N2	Gospley	Minebuilder1223	Interchange station with Central Peninsular, Northern Connector and Island lines
NW-N3  NC-N3  IS-N3	Palm Ridge	Tony515	Interchange station with Northern Connector and Island lines
NW-N4  NC-N4	New Oak	wong2750	Interchange station with Northern Connector line
NW-N5			Shelved station (Use NC-N5)
NW-N6			Unclaimed
NW-N7	L’arret de Montagne	VincentLUMCFan & Heiopeii
NW-N8	Jinol	Cupochan_
NW-N9  CC-N7	Sint Maartenstad	CaptainSlow_	Interchange station with Circular line
NW-N10	Sint Maartenstad - Medem	CaptainSlow_ & MachineMatster
NW-N11	Onerariis	dhow24
NW-N12	Schitt’s Creek	CaptainSlow_
NW-N13			Unclaimed
NW-N14			Unclaimed
NW-N15	Cranbrook - Timeston	Bitcoyne
NW-N16	Cranbrook - Sereneville	Baymax1020
NW-N17  UX-WXX	Cranbrook Central	Baymax1020	Interchange station with Upper East-West line (in 2021)