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List of railway towns

This is a list of railway towns.

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Canada edit

Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act of 1872, the railway companies had the power to survey new townsites along their rail lines, throughout Western Canada. Virtually every community in Western Canada that was created after 1870 (the majority) was directly created by the rail companies. One company, the Grand Trunk Pacific, actually began naming the new towns along its main line in alphabetical order from east to west, demonstrating the arbitrary nature of their planning powers.[7]

Czech Republic edit

  • Česká Třebová - This town in Eastern Bohemia has been an important settlement for more than seven centuries but since 1849 it became a large railway hub where main lines connecting Bohemia and Moravia meet. The largest rail yard in that country is located there as well as maintenance and scrap works.
  • České Velenice - The settlement was developed around an engine depot and railway works located on halfway between Vienna and Prague. Originally a suburb of Austrian town of Gmünd, the railway junction with its hinterland was attached to newly created Czechoslovakia after World War I and became a town of its own.
  • Kralupy nad Vltavou - Since Middle Ages Kralupy was a tiny insignificant village on the Vltava River. Since the 1850s it became an important railway junction and centre of petrochemical industry.

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Jordan edit

[8]

  • Mafraq
  • Amman
  • Ma'an

Japan edit

Japanese National Railways (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially.[9] The list below shows the official railway towns, but there are many other towns where town officials and residents think of their town as a railway town.

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Spain edit

There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain:[10]

  • Railway towns: new creation settlements which have community services (medical service, school, church...)
  • Railway villages: new creation settlements which have no community services.
  • Railway neighborhoods: settlements which appeared near a formerly town.

Some of them can be partial, non-entire. It means that railway activity was not the only one; it coexisted with other economic activities such as mining industry, cargo trade or customs activity.

Railway towns edit

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Railway neighborhoods edit

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Thailand edit

  • Nakhon Ratchasima, Used to be the terminus for almost 30 years (1900 - 1930)
  • Hatyai, The city was founded after SRT built the Hatyai Junction and it became a Financial Center of Southern Thailand.

Turkmenistan edit

 
Bereket Railway Station built in 1885.

United Kingdom edit

See also: Category:Railway towns in England

United States edit

Main article: List of railway towns in the United States
See also: Category:Railway towns in the United States by state


References edit

  1. ^ New Desert Village Transport News September 1979 pages 7-9
  2. ^ "Peterborough". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  3. ^ "Serviceton". Melbourne: The Age. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  4. ^ John C. Jennings and Robert K. Whitehead (July 2005). Seymour - A Railway Town. Seymour and District Historical Society. ISBN 0-9751658-0-1.
  5. ^ http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=VIC&region=157&view=175 Heritage Australia
  6. ^ Rogers, Philippa. "The Australian Railway Monument and Rail Journeys Museum". Labor History. 90. www.historycooperative.org. Archived from the original on 29 June 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  7. ^ Lucas, Rex. A. 1971. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown; life in Canadian communities of single industry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  8. ^ [1] Jordan Hejaz Railway Corporation
  9. ^ Asahi Shimbun March 3, 1986 evening edition
  10. ^ Domingo Cuéllar Villar, Miguel Jiménez Vega and Francisco Polo Muriel (coords.). Historia de los poblados ferroviarios en España. Ed.: Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles. Madrid, 2005.
  11. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 45.
  12. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 376.
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