Shockstead

Shockstead
Shockstead is a large town in the Shoresome & Bares district in the county of Shareham. It lies approximately 30 kilometres from Drum.Excluding the recent three new "former cities", Shoresome, Stanwood, and St. Tenensburgh, Shockstead is the second largest town in Highland, outside of Drum & Colby.

Shockstead is normally considered a rural town, owing to high-levelled woodland and flora.

It is unknown how Shockstead got its name and where it originated from.

Shockstead railway station was completed in 2000 and is also home to a type of signalling seen nowhere other than in Drum. While current services to and from the station are by no means a high number, this type of signalling allows for junctions to switch less than ten seconds after a train has rolled over it, allowing for shorter terminating times and more services being able to use the bay platforms with little delay.

Railway Station
Shockstead railway station was built in 2000 along with the rest of the Stoneham-Bares link. Shockstead station has 4 platforms which are all regularly used.

Platform 1 is used for terminating services, normally from Tinchester. As these trains are almost always formed of only 4 carriages, the west end of platform 1 can also be used for terminating services from Stoneham which call at all stations. These services also rest at Grandsford for a few minutes to allow for possible faster trains to come through, and most also rest at Devonchester.

Platforms 2 and 3 are for main services from Stoneham to Tinchester, which usually run fast.

Platform 4 is also used similarly to platform 1, though this is used normally for terminating Stoneham-bound semi-fast services in the weekends. Fast services (which usually only call at Devonchester and Grandsford) don't operate on most weekends.

Only a handful of train services don't stop at Shockstead - one in particular is the 0632 from Stoneham to Little Regis, which calls at Devonchester, Bares, Tinchester South, Beckersbury, Upton, Tonmouth, Benhilton, Shortsford, Emberling, Frostfall, Langworth, Ashingport, West Ashingport, Chisseral, Bareham (Tonmouth) and Little Regis.

Another service that doesn't stop is a sunday service, the 2020 from Ashingport to Grandsford, which calls at Langworth, Portsbridge, Great Harmer, Tinchester South, Shareham, Bares, and Grandsford.