RAILWAY TOWN

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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Canada

Denmark

Germany

Japan

Poland

United Kingdom

United States

See also

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 it's main line in alphabetical order from east to west, demonstrating the arbitrary nature of their planing powers.

Denmark

Langå

Germany

★ Altenbeken

★ Hamm

Japan

★ Ōmiya, Saitama is now a part of Saitama City.

Poland

★ Koluszki

★ Herby Nowe

United Kingdom

★ Crewe

★ Eastleigh

★ Haywards Heath

★ Newton Abbot - site of Great Western Railway

★ Middlesbrough - grew from insignificance to becoming a major port after the railways came

★ Sheringham

★ Swindon

★ Wolverton

United States

★ Atlanta, Georgia, at one time named ''Terminus'' because it was the terminal of the Western and Atlantic Railroad

★ Davis, California

★ Etowah, Tennessee

★ Sacramento, California

★ Woodland, California

See also

★ Crossroads village