A railway town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site. Examples include:
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Examples
Australia
- Peterborough, South Australia[1]
- Korong Vale, Victoria
- Serviceton, Victoria[2]
- Seymour, Victoria[3]
- Werris Creek, New South Wales[4]
Canada
Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act of 1870, 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.
Denmark
Germany
Japan
- Ōmiya, Saitama is now a part of Saitama City.
Poland
Russia
- Novosibirsk, now the 3rd largest city in Russia
Thailand
- Nakhon Ratchasima, Used to be the terminus for almost 30 years (1900 - 1930)
- Hatyai, The city was founded after SRT build the Hatyai Junction and it become to a Financial Center of Southern Thailand.
United Kingdom
- Crewe
- Darlington
- Didcot
- Doncaster
- Eastleigh
- Haywards Heath
- Newton Abbot - site of Great Western Railway
- Sheringham
- Swindon
- Wolverton
- York
United States
- Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Atlanta, Georgia, at one time named Terminus because it was the terminal of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
- Benson, Arizona
- Chicago, Illinois
- Davis, California
- Etowah, Tennessee
- Frederick, South Dakota
- Sacramento, California
- Woodland, California
- Woodsville, New Hampshire
Brazil
- Corupá, Santa Catarina
See also
Notes
- ^ "Peterborough - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Peterborough/2005/02/17/1108500204567.html. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ "Serviceton - Victoria - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au". www.theage.com.au. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Victoria/Serviceton/2005/02/17/1108500207300.html. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ John C. Jennings and Robert K. Whitehead (July 2005). Seymour - A Railway Town. Seymour and District Historical Society. ISBN 0 9751658 0 1.
- ^ "Philippa Rogers". www.historycooperative.org. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/90/rogers.html. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
References
- Lucas, Rex. A. 1971. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown; life in Canadian communities of single industry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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