List of railway towns
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Australia

  • Peterborough, South Australia
    Peterborough, South Australia
    Peterborough is a town in the mid north of South Australia, in wheat country, just off the Barrier Highway. At the 2006 census, Peterborough had a population of 1,689....

  • Korong Vale, Victoria
    Korong Vale, Victoria
    Korong Vale is a town in north western Victoria. The town is in the Shire of Loddon, north west of the state capital of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Korong Vale had a population of 170....

  • Serviceton, Victoria
    Serviceton, Victoria
    Serviceton is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located near the Victorian-South Australian border, 437 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The town was named after James Service, Premier of Victoria in 1880 and from 1883-86...

  • Seymour, Victoria
    Seymour, Victoria
    Seymour is a township in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located north of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Seymour had a population of 6,063...

  • Shepparton, Victoria
    Shepparton, Victoria
    Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia approximately north-east of Melbourne. It is the fifth largest city in Victoria, Australia. The estimated population of Shepparton's statistical area is 48,926.It began as a sheep station...

  • Werris Creek, New South Wales
    Werris Creek, New South Wales
    Werris Creek is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, near Tamworth, in Liverpool Plains Shire. It is north of Quirindi and is at the junction of the Main North railway line to Armidale and Moree. At the 2006 census, Werris Creek had a population of 1,490.-History:The area is thought to...


Canada

Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act
Dominion Lands Act
The Dominion Lands Act was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's Prairie provinces. It was closely based on the United States Homestead Act, setting conditions in which the western lands could be settled and their natural resources developed...

 of 1870, the railway companies had the power to survey new townsites along their rail lines, throughout Western Canada
Western Canada
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a region of Canada that includes the four provinces west of the province of Ontario.- Provinces :...

. 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.

Czech Republic

  • Česká Třebová
    Ceská Trebová
    Česká Třebová is city in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.-External links:* *...

     - This town in Eastern Bohemia has been an improtant settlement for more than seven centuries but since 1849 it became a large railway hub where main lines connecting Bohemia
    Bohemia
    Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

     and Moravia
    Moravia
    Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

     meet. The largest rail yard in that country is located there as well as maintenance and scrap works.
  • České Velenice
    Ceské Velenice
    České Velenice is city in South Bohemian Region of Czech Republic, just on border with Austria, neighbouring Gmünd .-Famous people:*painter Adolf Born was born here...

     - The settlement was developed around an engine depot and railway works located on half way between Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

     and Prague
    Prague
    Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

    . Originally a suburb of Austrian town of Gmünd
    Gmünd, Lower Austria
    Gmünd is a town in northwestern Waldviertel in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, the capital of the Gmünd district. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Böhmzeil, Breitensee, Eibenstein, Gmünd and Grillenstein...

    , the railway junction with its hinterland was attached to newly created Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

     after World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     and became a town of its own.
  • Kralupy nad Vltavou
    Kralupy nad Vltavou
    Kralupy nad Vltavou is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 18,000 inhabitants. The city lies on the Vltava River some north of Prague, the capital of both the Czech Republic and the Central Bohemian Region...

     - Since Middle Ages Kralupy was a tiny insignificant village on the Vltava River
    Vltava
    The Vltava is the longest river in the Czech Republic, running north from its source in Šumava through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague, merging with the Elbe at Mělník...

    . Since 1850s it became an important railway junction and centre of petrochemical industry.

France

  • Sotteville-lès-Rouen
    Sotteville-lès-Rouen
    - Transportation :The métro connects the commune with Rouen and Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.The commune used to be a railway town in the days of the old Rouen tramway.- Population :- Places of interest :* The three churches of Notre-Dame, St...

    , Seine-Maritime Department
    Seine-Maritime
    Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

  • Tergnier
    Tergnier
    Tergnier is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-Population:...

    , Aisne Department
    Aisne
    Aisne is a department in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River.- History :Aisne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Île-de-France, Picardie, and Champagne.Most of the old...


Japan

Japanese National Railways
Japanese National Railways
, abbreviated or "JNR", was the national railway network of Japan from 1949 to 1987.-History:The term Kokuyū Tetsudō "state-owned railway" originally referred to a network of railway lines operated by nationalized companies under the control of the Railway Institute following the nationalization...

 (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially. The list below shows the official railway towns, but there are many other towns where town officials and residents think their town as a railway town.
  • Iwamizawa, Hokkaidō
    Iwamizawa, Hokkaido
    is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.On March 27, 2006 the town of Kurisawa, and the village of Kita, both from Sorachi District, Sorachi Subprefecture, have merged into Iwamizawa....

     - Iwamizawa engine depot and center of coal transport in Hokkaido.
  • Oiwake, Hokkaidō
    Oiwake, Hokkaido
    was a town located in Yūfutsu District, Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan.On March 27, 2006 Oiwake was merged with the town of Hayakita, also from Yufutsu District, to form the new town of Abira....

     - now part of Abira, Hokkaidō
    Abira, Hokkaido
    is a town in Yufutsu District, Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.Abira was founded on March 27, 2006 by the merger of the towns of Hayakita and Oiwake, both from Yufutsu District....

     - Oiwake engine depot and another center of coal transport in Hokkaido.
  • Tsuchizaki
    Tsuchizaki Station
    is a railway station on the JR East Ōu Main Line. It is located in Akita, Akita, Japan.-History:War devastated this area on August 14, 1945. An air raid of 134 B-29s attacked a Nippon Oil Company refinery here, from midnight to the early dawn of August 15...

     - part of Akita, Akita
    Akita, Akita
    is the capital city of Akita Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Japan.As of June 11, 2005, with the merger of the former Kawabe District , the city has an estimated population of 323,310 and density of...

    , Tsuchizaki engine depot and Tsuchizaki railway works.
  • Niitsu, Niigata
    Niitsu, Niigata
    was a city located in Niigata, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 66,058 and the density of 843.87 persons per km². The total area is 78.28 km².The city was founded on January 1, 1951...

     - now part of Niigata, Niigata
    Niigata, Niigata
    is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It lies on the northwest coast of Honshu, the largest island of Japan, and faces the Sea of Japan and Sado Island....

    . Junction of Shinetsu Main Line and Uetsu Main Line
    Uetsu Main Line
    The is a railway in the Tōhoku and Chūbu regions of Japan. Part of the East Japan Railway Company system, it connects Niitsu Station in the city of Niigata and Akita Station in Akita...

    , Niitsu engine depot and Niitsu railway works.
  • Ōmiya, Saitama
    Omiya-ku, Saitama
    is a ward of Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is in the Greater Tokyo Area and about 25 km north of central Tokyo. Ōmiya-ku is surrounded by Nishi-ku , Kita-ku , Minuma-ku , Urawa-ku , Chūō-ku , and Sakura-ku of Saitama city.Ōmiya-ku is the most active commercial and business centre in...

     - now a part of Saitama City. Junction of Tōhoku Main Line and Takasaki Line
    Takasaki Line
    The is a Japanese railway line which runs between Ōmiya Station in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture and Takasaki Station in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company ....

    , Omiya railway works and Omiya marshalling yard.
  • Maibara, Shiga
    Maibara, Shiga
    is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.As of August 1, 2006, the city has an estimated population of 42,154. The total area is 223.1 km².- History :...

     - Junction of Tōkaidō Main Line
    Tokaido Main Line
    The is the busiest trunk line of the Japan Railways Group , connecting Tōkyō and Kōbe stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities...

     and Hokuriku Main Line
    Hokuriku Main Line
    The is a 358.3 kilometer line of the West Japan Railway Company from Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga to Naoetsu Station in Jōetsu, Niigata. It serves the Hokuriku region on the northern central coast of Honshū, the largest island of Japan, as well as offering connections to the regions of...

    , Maibara engine depot and Maibara marshalling yard.
  • Suita, Osaka - Suita marshalling yard, which was the largest marshalling yard in Japan.
  • Tadotsu, Kagawa
    Tadotsu, Kagawa
    is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 23,683 and a density of 973.01 persons per km². The total area is 24.34 km²....

     - Junction of Yosan Line
    Yosan Line
    The is a railway line on the island of Shikoku in Japan, operated by the Shikoku Railway Company . It runs along the Inland Sea coast, connecting the prefectural capitals of Takamatsu and Matsuyama , continuing on to Uwajima...

     and Dosan Line
    Dosan Line
    is a railway line in Shikoku, Japan, operated by the Shikoku Railway Company . It runs between Tadotsu Station in Tadotsu, Kagawa and Kubokawa Station in Shimanto, Kōchi. The line links the city of Kōchi with northern Shikoku and the island of Honshū via the Seto-Ōhashi Line...

    , Tadotsu railway works.
  • Yonago, Tottori
    Yonago, Tottori
    is a city located in the northwest of Tottori Prefecture, Japan, facing the Sea of Japan, and adjacent to Shimane. It is the prefecture's second largest city after Tottori and therefore a commercial center of the western part of this prefecture....

     - Goto railway works.
  • Tsuwano, Shimane
    Tsuwano, Shimane
    is a town in Kanoashi District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 8,878 and a density of 28.9 persons per km². The total area is 307.09 km²....

     - Tsuwano engine depot.
  • Nōgata, Fukuoka
    Nogata, Fukuoka
    is a city located in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. Located near Kitakyūshū and Iizuka, Nōgata is in the center of the Chikuhō region of Fukuoka....

     - Center of coal transport for Chikuho coalfield.
  • Tosu, Saga
    Tosu, Saga
    is a city located in the east part of Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan.-Overview:Tosu is one of the major transportation hubs of Kyūshū. Its main train station is Tosu Station which connects the Nagasaki Main Line and the Kagoshima Main Line. There is also a junction connecting the...

     - Junction of Kagoshima Main Line
    Kagoshima Main Line
    The is a major railway line operated by the Kyushu Railway Company between Mojikō in Kitakyūshū, and Kagoshima Station in Kagoshima City, at the southern end of Kyushu...

     and Nagasaki Main Line, Tosu engine depot and Tosu marshalling yard.

Poland

  • Chabówka
    Chabówka
    Chabówka is a village located on the outskirts of the southern Polish town of Rabka, in the Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship. With population of 1,600 , Chabówka is a popular tourist attraction because of its location, near the Gorce Mountains.It also is an important rail junction,...

  • Fosowskie
    Fosowskie
    Fosowskie , also caleed Wosowska between 1945 and 1948, is a district of the southern Polish town of Kolonowskie . Located at the Mała Panew river, Fosowskie was for most of its history a separate village...

  • Herby Nowe
    Herby Nowe
    Herby Nowe is a major Polish rail junction, located north of the Upper Silesian Industrial Area, along the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, in the Lubliniec County of the Silesian Voivodeship. Around the station, which was opened in 1926, there is a whole district of condominiums and houses, built for the...

  • Koluszki
    Koluszki
    Koluszki is a town, and a major railway junction, in Central Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about 20 km east of Łódź. Population: 13,331 . The junction in Koluszki serves trains that go from Warsaw to Łódź , Wrocław, Częstochowa and Katowice. Also, it is connected with Radom and Lublin by an...

  • Wegliniec
    Wegliniec
    Węgliniec is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Węgliniec...

  • Zbaszynek
    Zbaszynek
    Zbąszynek is a town in western Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Świebodzin County. It has 5,185 inhabitants .-History:The town was founded in the 1920s, when, as a result of the Greater Poland Uprising as well as the Treaty of Versailles, the railroad hub of Zbaszyn became part of newly...

  • Zdunska Wola Karsznice
    Zdunska Wola Karsznice
    Zduńska Wola Karsznice is one of the biggest rail junctions in Poland, located in central part of the country, within borders of the town of Zduńska Wola . It is a station along the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, before 1930 it had been a separate village, but construction of the Trunk-Line resulted in...


Sweden

  • Hallsberg
    Hallsberg
    Hallsberg is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 7,122 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Kumla Municipality.-Overview:...

  • Nässjö
    Nässjö
    Nässjö is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,463 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Nässjö was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern...

    , at the expense of the -- at the time -- larger town of Eksjö
    Eksjö
    Eksjö is a locality and the seat of Eksjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 9,676 inhabitants in 2005.-History:The city of Eksjö most likely appeared sometime in the medieval ages when it was the centre for the thing, a regional council. Its first mentioned is from the 14th century...


Thailand

  • Nakhon Ratchasima
    Nakhon Ratchasima
    Nakhon Ratchasima or is a city in the north-east of Thailand and gateway to Isan. It is the capital of the Nakhon Ratchasima Province and Nakhon Ratchasima district...

    , 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

See also: :Category:Railway towns in England
  • Craven Arms
    Craven Arms
    Craven Arms is a small town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, located on the A49 road and the Welsh Marches railway line, which connect it north and south to the larger towns of Shrewsbury and Ludlow respectively. The Heart of Wales railway line joins the Welsh Marches line at Craven Arms...

  • Crewe
    Crewe
    Crewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683...

  • Darlington
    Darlington
    Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, part of the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It lies on the small River Skerne, a tributary of the River Tees, not far from the main river. It is the main population centre in the borough, with a population of 97,838 as of 2001...

  • Didcot
    Didcot
    Didcot is a town and civil parish in Oxfordshire about south of Oxford. Until 1974 it was in Berkshire, but was transferred to Oxfordshire in that year, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire...

  • Doncaster
    Doncaster
    Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...

  • Eastleigh
    Eastleigh
    Eastleigh is a railway town in Hampshire, England, and the main town in the Eastleigh borough which is part of Southampton Urban Area. The town lies between Southampton and Winchester, and is part of the South Hampshire conurbation...

  • Newton Abbot
    Newton Abbot
    Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England on the River Teign, with a population of 23,580....

     - site of Great Western Railway
    Great Western Railway
    The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

  • Rugby, Warwickshire
    Rugby, Warwickshire
    Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

  • Sheringham
    Sheringham
    Sheringham is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, west of Cromer.The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat, Latin for "The sea enriches and the pine adorns"....

  • Shildon
    Shildon
    Shildon is a town in County Durham, in England. It is situated 2 miles to the south east of Bishop Auckland and 11 miles north of Darlington. It is 13 miles away from Durham, 23 miles from Sunderland and 23 miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne...

  • Swindon
    Swindon
    Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...

  • Toton
    Toton
    Toton is a small suburb of Nottingham. It forms part of the Greater Nottingham urban area, and is in the Borough of Broxtowe. The inhabited area is contained within the electoral ward of Toton and Chilwell Meadows...

  • Wolverton
    Wolverton
    Wolverton is part of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.Wolverton may also refer to:Places in England:*Wolverton, Dorset*Wolverton, Kent*Wolverton, Hampshire*Wolverton, Shropshire*Wolverton, WarwickshirePlaces in the United States:...


United States

  • Altoona, Pennsylvania
    Altoona, Pennsylvania
    -History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868...

  • Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

    , at one time named Terminus because it was the terminal of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
    Western and Atlantic Railroad
    The Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia' is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee....

  • Benson, Arizona
    Benson, Arizona
    -Transportation:Benson Airport is located 3 miles north west of the city.Benson is served by Interstate 10 to the north, which travels directly to downtown Tucson....

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Davis, California
    Davis, California
    Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

  • Etowah, Tennessee
    Etowah, Tennessee
    Etowah is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,663 at the 2000 census.-History:Etowah was founded in 1906, primarily as a location for a depot on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad line as part of a more direct route between Atlanta, Georgia and Cincinnati, Ohio...

  • Frederick, South Dakota
    Frederick, South Dakota
    Frederick is a town in Brown County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 199 at the 2010 census. Home to the annual Frederick Finn Fest, the town is part of the Aberdeen Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

  • Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

  • Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

  • Sacramento, California
    Sacramento, California
    Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

  • Stockton, California
    Stockton, California
    Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...

  • Woodland, California
    Woodland, California
    Woodland is the county seat of Yolo County, California, located approximately northwest of Sacramento, and is a part of the Sacramento - Arden-Arcade - Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 55,468 at the 2010 census.Woodland's origins trace back to 1850 when California...

  • Woodsville, New Hampshire
    Woodsville, New Hampshire
    Woodsville is a census-designated place in the town of Haverhill in Grafton County, New Hampshire, U.S., along the Connecticut River at the mouth of the Ammonoosuc River. The population was 1,126 at the 2010 census...

  • White River Junction, Vermont
    White River Junction, Vermont
    White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, United States...

  • Wells River, Vermont
    Wells River, Vermont
    Wells River is a village in the town of Newbury in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 325 at the 2000 census. The village center is located at the junction of U.S...

  • Island Pond, Vermont
    Island Pond, Vermont
    Island Pond is a census-designated place in the town of Brighton in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The population was 849 at the 2000 census...


India

  • Bhusaval, Maharashtra
  • Erode
    Erode
    Erode is a city, a municipal corporation and the headquarters of Erode district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.It is situated at the center of the South Indian Peninsula, about southwest from the state capital Chennai and on the banks of the rivers Cauvery and Bhavani, between 11° 19.5"...

    , Tamil Nadu
  • Jolarpettai,Tamil Nadu
  • Arakkonam
    Arakkonam
    Arakkonam is a mid-sized City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with a population of about 101,626 as per the census 2011...

    , Tamil Nadu
  • Olavakkode
    Olavakkode
    Olavakkode is a region in Palakkad city, Kerala, India. It is composed of two main areas: the Kavilpad and the Railway Colony. Olavakkode is 4 km from the Palakkad Municipal Bus Terminus.-Transportation:...

    , Palghat, Kerala
  • Shornur, Kerala

Spain

There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain:
  • 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

  • Almorchón, Cabeza del Buey
    Cabeza del Buey
    Cabeza del Buey is a Spanish municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. It has a population of 5,620 and an area of 475.06 km².-External links:*...

    , Province of Badajoz
  • Linares-Baeza, Linares, Province of Jaén
  • Fuente del Arco's station, Fuente del Arco
    Fuente del Arco
    Fuente del Arco is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the municipality has a population of 754 inhabitants....

    , Province of Badajoz
  • Moreda's station, Morelábor, Province of Granada
  • La Encina, Villena
    Villena
    Villena is a city in Spain, in the Valencian Community. It is located at the northwest part of Alicante, and borders to the west with Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia, to the north with the province of Valencia and to the east and south with the province of Alicante. It is the capital of the comarca...

    , Province of Alicante
  • Monfragüe's station (Plasencia-Empalme until middle 1970s; Palazuelo-Empalme until 27th May 1990), Malpartida de Plasencia
    Malpartida de Plasencia
    Malpartida de Plasencia is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census , the municipality has a population of 4410 inhabitants....

    , Province of Cáceres
  • Bobadilla's station, Antequera
    Antequera
    Antequera is a city and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. It is known as "the heart of Andalusia" because of its central location among Málaga, Granada, Córdoba, and Seville...

    , Province of Málaga
  • Vadollano, Linares, Province of Jaén
  • Espelúy's station, Espelúy
    Espelúy
    Espelúy is a town located in the province of Jaén, Spain. The town was reorganized and repopulated by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización in the 1950s. According to the 2006 census of the INE, the city has a population of 750 inhabitants.- External links :...

    , Province of Jaén
  • Algodor, Aranjuez
    Aranjuez
    Aranjuez is a town lying 48 km south of Madrid, in the southern part of the Community of Madrid. It is located at the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, 48 km from Toledo. As of 2009, it has a population of 54,055.-History:...

    , Community of Madrid
  • Arroyo-Malpartida, Cáceres, Province of Cáceres
  • Chinchilla's station, Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón
    Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón
    Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón, more commonly just Chinchilla, is a municipality in the province of Albacete in Castile-La Mancha, in the region of La Mancha Montearagón.-Description:This town is located 15 km from the capital of the province...

    , Province of Albacete
  • Puente de los Fierros, Lena
    Lena, Asturias
    Lena is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Its capital, Pola de Lena, has a population of 9,200.-Parishes:-Main sights:...

    , Asturias
    Asturias
    The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

  • Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme), Maçanet de la Selva
    Maçanet de la Selva
    Maçanet de la Selva is a municipality in the comarca of the Selva in Catalonia, Spain. It is an important communications junction, where the routes from the coast meet those from the Prelittoral Depression to form a single axis north towards Girona and the French border...

     and Massanes
    Massanes
    Massanes is a municipality in the comarca of the Selva in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the left bank of the Tordera river. Local roads link the town with the A-7 autopista, the C-251 road and the RENFE railway station shared with Maçanet de la Selva.- Demography :-References:* Panareda...

    , Province of Girona

Partial railway towns

  • Los Rosales (Tocina-Empalme until 1st August 1914), Tocina
    Tocina
    Tocina is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 9114 inhabitants. Its name in Moorish times was Tushēna .-External links:...

    , Province of Seville
  • Villanueva del Río y Minas
    Villanueva del Río y Minas
    Villanueva del Río y Minas is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 5,237 inhabitants.-External links:* - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía...

    , Province of Seville
  • Canfranc's station, Canfranc
    Canfranc
    Canfranc is a municipality in the Aragon Valley of north-eastern Spain consisting of two towns.- Political information :* comarca of Jacetania * province of Huesca* autonomous community of Aragón- Canfranc :...

    , Province of Huesca
  • Sierra Menera, Ojos Negros
    Ojos Negros
    Ojos Negros is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 531 inhabitants....

    , Province of Teruel
  • Barruelo de Santullán
    Barruelo de Santullán
    Barruelo de Santullán is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 1,592 inhabitants....

    , Province of Palencia
  • Venta de Baños
    Venta de Baños
    Venta de Baños is a village and municipality of about 5,880 located in El Cerrato, in the province of Palencia, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, central Spain. It is located south of the provincial capital, Palencia. Noteworthy monuments include its Visigothic church of San...

    , Province of Palencia
  • Portbou
    Portbou
    Portbou is a town in the Alt Empordà county, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 1,307 people.- Overview :It is located near the French border in the Costa Brava region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for SNCF trains coming from Cerbère in France.Portbou...

    , Province of Girona
  • Prat del Pinter, Ogassa, Province of Girona
  • Castejón
    Castejón
    Castejón is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.Castejón is home to Spain's largest photovoltaic power plant , which opened in 2006 .-External links:*...

    , Navarre
    Navarre
    Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...

  • Valencia de Alcántara's station, Valencia de Alcántara
    Valencia de Alcántara
    Valencia de Alcántara is a Spanish town near the Portuguese border . It is located in Cáceres province.Nuestra Señora de Rocamador is the most important church...

    , Province of Cáceres

Railway villages

  • Doña María-Ocaña, Las Tres Villas
    Las Tres Villas
    -External links: - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía - Diputación Provincial de Almería...

    , Province of Almería
  • Nacimiento's station, Nacimiento, Province of Almería
  • Roda de Barà's station, Roda de Barà
    Roda de Barà
    Roda de Barà is a municipality in the comarca of the Tarragonès inCatalonia, Spain. It is situated on the coast in the east of the comarca...

    , Province of Tarragona
  • Calasparra's station, Calasparra
    Calasparra
    Calasparra is a municipality in the autonomous community of Murcia, Spain.- Geography :Calasparra has an area of 193 km² and a population of 9,700 . Between 2004 and 2006 more than 2,000 British immigrants bought new homes off-plan, built on 3 new urbanisations sateliting the town, with more...

    , Region of Murcia
    Region of Murcia
    The Region of Murcia is an autonomous community of Spain located in the southeast of the country, between Andalusia and Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast....


Partial railway villages

  • Puerto La Laja, El Granado
    El Granado
    El Granado is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2008 census, the municipality has a population of 598 inhabitants....

    , Province of Huelva
  • Mengíbar-Las Palomeras, Jabalquinto
    Jabalquinto
    Jabalquinto is a city located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2005 census , the city has a population of 2,420 inhabitants....

    , Province of Jaén
  • Agramón's station, Hellín
    Hellín
    Hellín is a town and municipality located in the south of the province of Albacete, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. , it has a population of 31,109....

    , Province of Albacete
  • Aljucén's station (Lavaderos until 15th April 1884; Puente de Aljucén until 1928), Mérida, Province of Badajoz

Railway neighborhoods

  • Belmez's station, Bélmez
    Bélmez
    rightBelmez is a village and municipality with 2000 inhabitants in Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain.It is usually confused with Bélmez de la Moraleda, a village in the Province of Jaén , because the resemblance of their names: "Belmez" and "Bélmez" ....

    , Province of Córdoba (Spain)
  • Los Prados, Málaga
    Málaga
    Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...

    , Province of Málaga
  • La Almozara, Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...

    , Province of Zaragoza
  • Astorga-San Andrés, Astorga, Province of León
  • Torralba's station, Medinaceli
    Medinaceli
    Medinaceli is a municipality and town in the province of Soria . Its name derives from the Arabic toponym madīnat sālim . The town is named after one Salim bin Waral, head of a Masmuda Berber family which settled there in the 8th century....

    , Province of Soria
  • Móra La Nova's station, Móra la Nova
    Móra la Nova
    Móra la Nova is a municipality in the comarca, or district, of the Ribera d'Ebre in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the left bank of the Ebre river, facing the district capital Móra d'Ebre....

    , Province of Tarragona
  • Vicálvaro's station, Madrid
    Madrid
    Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

    , Community of Madrid
  • Villabona's station, Llanera
    Llanera, Asturias
    Llanera is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Gijón and Corvera de Asturias, on the south by Oviedo, on the east by Gijón and Siero, and on the west by Illas and Las Regueras...

    , Asturias
    Asturias
    The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...


Partial railway neighborhoods

  • Santa Fe-Alhama, Santa Fe de Mondújar
    Santa Fe de Mondújar
    -External links: - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía - Diputación Provincial de Almería...

    , Province of Almería
  • Serón's station, Serón
    Serón
    -External links: - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía - Diputación Provincial de Almería - General Information about Serón...

    , Province of Almería
  • Guadix's station, Guadix
    Guadix
    Guadix, a city of southern Spain, in the province of Granada; on the left bank of the river Guadix, a sub-tributary of the Guadiana Menor, and on the Madrid-Valdepeñas-Almería railway...

    , Province of Granada
  • Sant Vicenç de Calders' station, El Vendrell
    El Vendrell
    El Vendrell is a town located in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, in a wine-growing region. It is wedged between the Mediterranean and the Litoral mountain ranges...

    , Province of Tarragona
  • Las Matas, Las Rozas de Madrid
    Las Rozas de Madrid
    Las Rozas de Madrid is one of the larger townships and municipalities in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain, with an area of between 58.8 and 59.14 km²...

    , Community of Madrid
  • Puerto de Sagunto, Sagunto
    Sagunto
    Sagunto or Sagunt is an ancient city in Eastern Spain, in the modern fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the province of Valencia. It is located in a hilly site, c. 30 km north of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea...

    , Province of Valencia
  • Aldea Moret, Cáceres, Province of Cáceres

Portugal

  • Entroncamento, Santarém District
  • Pinhal Novo
    Pinhal Novo
    Pinhal Novo is a town in Portugal with 26,000 inhabitants situated in the Setúbal Peninsula halfway between Lisbon and Setúbal. It is served by two highways connecting Lisbon to the South and by its new train station that has enabled residents to connect directly to Lisbon's subway network in 30...

    , concelho de Palmela
    Palmela
    Palmela is a town and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of and a total population of 58,222 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of 5 parishes, and is located in Setúbal District, about south of Lisbon.The municipal holiday is June 1....

    , Setúbal District
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