Olton Hall Station

Olton Hall Station
Survival 5 Labrador
Station
World	Survival 5 (Labrador)
Network	Community Rail Network
Line	Labrador North
Opened	March 18th 2023
Builder(s)	XPModder
Location	X= 554 Z= -3784
NTN Connection	Lab North Tunnel
Connections	2
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Olton Hall Station is the second CRN station on Labradors North Line. It is located about 3.8k blocks north of spawn on a hill on the Labrador world of Survival 5. The station resembles a medieval castle hall, which inspired  XPModder to name it after one of the hall class locomotives of the former UK railroad, Great Western Railway. As a fan of Harry Potter, he decided to name the station after the locomotive 'Olton Hall', which was used for filming the Hogwarts Express for the Harry Potter movies.

Design

The station was designed to resemble a medieval castle hall, after inspiration from some image found online. The interior of the station was in large part inspired by a single screenshot from minecraft, found on reddit. While heavily inspired by this image and in parts very close to it, the interior was largely redesigned for its use as a rail station. The exterior of the station, meanwhile was inspired by a number of images found online, after searching for medieval castle builds.

During the design of the station great care was taken, to make all areas and walkways that are visible from standing inside the station, actually accessible and completely by foot. To achieve this, stairs at either end of the station lead up to different walkways and the highest walkways allow access to the platforms on the towers on either end of the station, as well as the attic.

The station features 6 platform for rail lines to connect to. This number was chosen, as at the time of planning of the station, a ring line on labrador was in discussion and this station would be part of the ring line. Therefor apart from the 2 neccesary mainline connections, two further connections for the ring line would be needed and  XPModder decided to add two additional platforms for potential branch lines.

Labrador North-Line

Grand Central

North Station

Labrador Ring Line

Olton Hall

Watermill

Labrador Ring Line

To be continued

The stations interior is devided into section. A small section on each end of the station contains stairs to higher walkways and the Nether Portal, connecting the station to the NTN, as well as some ender chests and a log book. The rest of the station contains 6 sections, each serving as the platform for one of the rail lines, and the very center of the station has a large map of the surrounding area on the floor. Each of the platforms, contains some benches (beds), as well as signs indicating where this line leads, who helped build this line and welcoming arriving players to the station. A network map of the Labrador CRN is also located at each platform.

During construction of the station, the player  Rocksol, who has a large base nearby approached  XPModder and offered to build the tunnel connecting the station Nether Portal to the NTN, which was happily accepted by  XPModder.