Commonwealth Rails



The Commonwealth and its surrounding area has one of the densest rail networks on the server.

Westminster
One of the Commonwealth's main goals was to provide free trade and transportation, and naturally, a large rail station was going to be built there. Shopside, Westminster's marketplace, currently houses Westminster's main station. Although it was small at first, a recent expansion in early 2018 has established Westminster as a main train station on the server.

The boroughs were connected up first by rail, as each borough gradually joined. It started to become a major hub when the HITS rail was beginning to be built in June 2017, connecting Westminster to other major cities in the Western Hemisphere, notably TdC, Mount Augusta, Impasse and others. Other notable connections at the time included Southshire, which itself became a hub for rails later on, SPQR.

Once the Somber War started, progress stagnated on the station, but after its slow decline, the station was overdue for a makeover. In early 2018, a new station was built using part of the already existing infrastructure of the old station. The new station makes it more spacious than the previous iteration, and makes connections a little more efficient. New rail connections are also coming in due to the newly invigorated station, most notably an overground rail to Yoahtl, Vinland, and other locations.

The Boroughs
The other borough's stations grew naturally with the size of their connections. Southshire, which gained a lot of connections earlier on, built a new station situated on the edge of a cliff, and still uses the current building today, with the second most connections in the region.

Arran's growth as a rail hub was more gradual, initially only getting connections to Westminster and Southshire, but as more boroughs joined west of the city, it became an important transfer station within the area.

Taliesin's goals were to make an aesthetically nice looking city. To help with that, their first connection to Westminster was a monorail. However, their unique location made them a prime location for a connection to Zero Zero.