0.0.9e did not have the stations saved in the save file - they were loaded by the engine itself.
0.1.0(x) loads the stations from the save file, but does spawn them with the engine on a new game.
If you load an old save - there's no entries that register the stations, and the engine is told "this is a load from a save, not a new game" so it doesn't spawn them.
Resulting in no stations being found.
There's but only one possible fix to this that I can possibly think of that you could TRY and do to try and "salvage" the save - but it'd require having 100g to purchase the house on the hill, as well as a backup hammer (possibly not assembled) - as, for as far as I know, everyone that has shown trying to load an out of date save, all have "copper empty" for their hammer - which is incapable of the necessary jobs of the player.
In general, the only real option though is, to restart and make a new save.