Train Village
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| Name | Train Village | ||
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| Hexacode | SY-TV-01 | ||
| Population | Town:
1,484[1] Clave Rock: 221[2] | ||
| Language(s) | English | ||
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| Mayor | Alexandru Latin (LD) | ||
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| Location |  Sylvania (Peace Island)
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| Next to |  Nicholasville
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| Nicknames | TV'ers (inhabitants) | ||
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Train Village is a Lovian town in Sylvania and has approximately 2,100 inhabitants[3]. The town has two neighborhoods, namely Downtown and Nicholasville and a hamlet called Clave Rock.
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[edit] Etymology
Train Village has been called this way since its foundation in 1880 and was named after the train depot situated in this area. This village consisted of houses of people who worked at the train depot, which would later become a modern railway station. After a long period of modernisation, Train Village had lost its image of "just a railway station" thus more and more people started asking themselves if this name would still fit the village. But the original name has been kept, although many proposals have been made.
[edit] History
Train Village was founded back in 1880 as a small train depot with a few houses and shops for the workers at the depot, near the Highland Mines where another village was founded, called Clave Rock. The founder and mayor of Train Village, James Xavier de la Mekers, helped build up the place into a small village. However, it originally served as a connection between Noble City and the Highland Mines in Clave Rock and not as a neat place to live in.
Thus Train Village had a incredibly bad image in Lovia during the first half of the 20th century. It would have been a filthy, small and boring village, far away from important places like Noble City and Newhaven. Governor and Former Mayor of Train Village Robbert Joe said that "only people who don't have opportunities would consider living there"[4]. Many owners of the Highland Mines became Mayor of Train Village, put by the State Government, just to assure that the transportation of coles wouldn't become too exprensive[5]. One could state that there was a high concurrention between Train Village and the Mining companies in Hurbanova.
An important turning point in Train Village's history was the year of 1957. The Highland Mines were closed and Train Village was obliged to find other sources of income. But it was not a chosen moment, as a famine was occuring in Lovia and many people had already fled to the cities. The town impoverished even more, until the hungry population decided to start farming in this fertile region. Many farms were built east and north of Train Village.
In the sixties, Train Village got the chance to flourish. Nicholasville, a part of the farms, was being incorporated and after that the Town Hall decided to open a market, where farmers can sell their products. New shops and bars opened their doors and the population found new jobs in the tertiary sector of the economy.
In the last decades, Mayors tried to maintain the green spaces and invested in parks. Many schools were built and tourism started developping. Little by little, Train Village became a quiet, green and neat town where one can live properly, far away from the city's noise.
During the June 2008 Floods, the dikes situated north of Train Village broke, thus the town was inundated for a couple of days. One casualty was made, caught by a flash flooding. Surprisingly enough it was the Mayor, Garry James, who had found his death. In honor of the Former Mayor, Alexandru Latin named a local park after him.
[edit] Geography
Train Village lies north east of the Emerald Highlands and the Beaver River, very close to the Highland Mines which were situated on a branch of the Beaver River west of Train Village. It's a region dominated by hills and forests, like the Pologne Forest which surrounds Train Village. The town officially makes part of the Train Village Plains that stretches from Stephen Headland to East Sylvania and Noble City. Although the name "Train Village Plains", as we've said, Train Village is situated in a hilly area. The plains start north of Train Village and is loved by farmers. West of Train Village flows the Ginger Source.
Train Village is connected to Noble City, by the Trans Sylvanian Railway and Highway 1. Another road leaves Train Village in the west and connects Train Village to the hamlets of Clave Rock and East Hills (Oceana) and goes southwest to Hurbanova.
| Neighboring places | ||
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| Newhaven (Kings) | ||
| Clave Rock |  | |
| East Hills (Oceana) Hurbanova (Oceana) | Noble City | |
[edit] Population
In the last decade, the population of Train Village stayed stable around the 900 inhabitants. However, in March 2008 approximately 721 were counted. That month, Pierlot McCrooke began as a Mayor and expanded the town. In June 2008, only three months later, a sensational number of 2,205 inhabitants was counted. Probably the farmers around the town of Train Village were included in the census.
In 2009, the town's population shrinked though. After the June 2008 Floods, many people fled to higher places in the Emerald Highlands which caused a new instable period in Train Village. As of November 2009, 1,484 people lived in Train Village. Since Alexandru Latin had became Mayor, the town is developping and modernising and the population started growing again. In December 2009, estimations stated that approximately 1,900 people would be living in Train Village at the moment and 200 in the neighboring hamlet Clave Rock.
[edit] Politics
Train Village is ruled by a Mayor and Nicholasville also has got a local chairman. Both of them are free functions, thus no elections have to be held, although the State of Sylvania with its government in Noble City has always had a big influence concerning the choice of the Train Village Mayor[6].
The town's population has always been leftist. However during the past decades, the population's political preferences have moved to the center. The Progressive Central Party had overwhelmingly been dominating Train Village until the foundation of the Liberal Democrats, which is gaining more support under the local population. In November 2009, a Liberal Democrat became Mayor of Train Village and because of his influence in this Lovian political party, he succeeded in adding a couple of view points which would be in favour of TV'ers[7], gaining him and his party more support in this region.
[edit] List of Mayors
| Year | Name | Lifetime | Comments |
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| 1880-1887 | James Xavier de la Mekers | 1846-1887 | Owner of the Highland Mines, founded Train Village |
| 1887-1900 | Diet Kashubian (Danilo Pahor) | 1842-1902 | Famous writer, first mayor not to be owner of the Highland Mines |
| 1900-1924 | Felix McCrooke | 1855-1927 | Owner of the Highland Mines |
| 1924-1938 | Mark Heynes | 1888-1956 | |
| 1938-1945 | Robbert Joe | 1912-1985 | Owner of the Highland Mines, became Governor of Sylvania |
| 1945-1957 | Rick Mayer | 1911-1998 | Succeeded in closing the Mines in the last year of his service |
| 1957-1980 | Sam McBither | 1905-1985 | Train Village flourished under his rule |
| 1980-2002 | Rob Quince | 1942-2002 | |
| 2002-2008 | Garry James | 1965-2008 | Died after a flash flooding, in the June 2008 Floods |
| 2008-2009 | Pierlot McCrooke | 1987-now | Controversial international personality |
| 2009-now | Alexandru Latin | 1974-now | Controversial international personality, town modernizer |
[edit] Town divisions
Train Village officialy consists of two neighborhoods: Downtown and Nicholasville. However, locals started dividing the town in different ways, based on other points of view. The westernmost part of the town is the Center, where one can find shops, bars, the stadium, administrative buildings, schools, the railway station, etc, all of them situated in Downtown. In the east, in Nicholasville, there is the zone Agriculture, which contains several farms and a market with farmer products. Between these two zones, are the houses of the inhabitants, spread over Downtown and Nicholasville.
In the past, people were used to talk about the "Old Town" (West Downtown) and the "New Town" (East Downtown and West Nicholasville), although after several periods of modernisation, one can no longer talk about an Old Town, thus the term disappeared.
[edit] Simplified town map
 Train Village (downtown) SY-TV-01 | Nicholasville SY-TV-OR |
| Legend: | ██ Mostly residential | ██ Mostly economical (shopping) | ██ Mostly industrial | ██ Mostly administrative | ██ Mostly natural/agricultural |
[edit] Town map of Downtown
| Hope Avenue | |||||||||
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| Occidental Arena Hope Avenue 1 | FOR SALE Hope Avenue 3 | Malipa Burger Hope Avenue 5 | *2 | Liberal Democrats Oceana Road 2 | Danilo Pahor College Occident Avenue 7a | ||||
| Lovian Wish Hotel Occident Avenue 1 | Special Chef Occident Avenue 3 | Federal Property Occident Avenue 5 | FOR SALE Occident Avenue 7b | ||||||
| Occident Avenue | |||||||||
| Pologne Forest | *1 | James Park | Heynes Fountains | Bucurestean Occident Avenue 4 | FOR SALE Occident Avenue 6 | ||||
| Town Hall Occident Avenue 2 | R. Pennington Primary School Oceana Road 1 | George Matthews Oceana Road 4 | FOR SALE Noble Alley 1 | ||||||
| Department of Transportation Sunset Avenue 1 | Police Department Sunset Avenue 3 | JamalH Sunset Avenue 5 | Noble Alley | ||||||
| FOR SALE Noble Alley 4 | |||||||||
| Sunset Avenue | FOR SALE Noble Alley 2 | ||||||||
| Train Village Railway Station Sunset Avenue 2 | headquarters Train Village News Sunset Avenue 4 | McMarket Sunset Avenue 6 | FOR SALE Sunset Avenue 8 | ||||||
| FOR SALE Oceana Road 3 | FOR SALE Kings Road 1 | FOR SALE Kings Road 3 | |||||||
| Naranja Greens | Kings Road | ||||||||
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- *1 - Hurbanova Road
- *2 - Oceana Road
[edit] Town maps of the town & area
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 The three zones: Agrarian, Center and Housing |
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 Urban area |
 The urban area and TV's neighborhoods |
The region of Train Village (1) |
 The region of Train Village (2) |
[edit] Sister cities, towns and neighborhoods
[edit] References and notes
- ↑ These figures are registered and measured by the Lovian Census Bureau on November 18, 2009.
- ↑ As of December 2009
- ↑ As of December 2009, including the town of Train Village and hamlet Clave Rock
- ↑ Robbert Joe, Sylvanian Governor between 1953-1956, Mayor of Train Village between 1924-1945 and owner of the Highland Mines wrote this controversial statement in his diary.
- ↑ In Highland Mining, written by Gilbert Kleimson in 1967.
- ↑ Thanks to the Governor of Sylvania, Pierlot McCrooke, Alexandru Latin and Robbert Joe became Mayor of Train Village
- ↑ The Liberal Democrats gained a lot of support in Train Village, thanks to the following points: 1) Noble City should get its own State. 2) Abolition of the function of Mayor and more power to the State, which should become democratic by the foundation of a parliament. This means that Train Village would actually become the capital of Sylvania and Noble City would get less influence in the politics of Train Village.
