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A railway
Rail transport

Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
 town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction
Junction (rail)

A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , provided by...
 at its site. Examples include:


r the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act
Dominion Lands Act

The Dominion Lands Act was an 1872 Canada law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's prairie provinces. It was closely based on the United States Homestead Act, setting the parameters within which western land could be settled and its natural resources developed....
 of 1870, the railway companies had the power to survey new townsites along their rail lines, throughout Western Canada
Western Canada

File:Western Canada2.svgWestern Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a list of regions of Canada generally including all parts of Canada west of the provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario....
. Virtually every community in Western Canada that was created after 1870 (the majority) was directly created by the rail companies.






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A railway
Rail transport

Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
 town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction
Junction (rail)

A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , provided by...
 at its site. Examples include:

Examples


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. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner, Peter Doecke, who sold land to create the town....
  • Serviceton, Victoria
    Serviceton, Victoria

    Serviceton is a small town in Victoria , Australia, located near the South Australia-Victoria border dispute, 437 kilometres north-west of Melbourne....
  • Seymour, Victoria
    Seymour, Victoria

    Seymour is a township in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria , Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Seymour had a population of 6,304....
  • Werris Creek, New South Wales
    Werris Creek, New South Wales

    Werris Creek is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, near Tamworth, New South Wales, in Liverpool Plains Shire. It is north of Quirindi, New South Wales and is at the junction of the Main North railway line, New South Wales to Armidale, New South Wales and Moree, New South Wales....


Canada

Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act
Dominion Lands Act

The Dominion Lands Act was an 1872 Canada law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's prairie provinces. It was closely based on the United States Homestead Act, setting the parameters within which western land could be settled and its natural resources developed....
 of 1870, the railway companies had the power to survey new townsites along their rail lines, throughout Western Canada
Western Canada

File:Western Canada2.svgWestern Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a list of regions of Canada generally including all parts of Canada west of the provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario....
. 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

  • Langå
    Langå

    Lang?, is a railway town in central Denmark, located in Randers municipality in Region Midtjylland in Jutland. Until January 1, 2007 it was the site of the municipal council of the now former Lang? municipality....


Germany

  • Altenbeken
    Altenbeken

    Altenbeken is a municipality in the Paderborn , in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
  • Bebra
    Bebra

    Bebra is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany....
  • Hamm
    Hamm

    Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of December 2003 its population was 180,849....


Japan

  • Omiya, Saitama
    Omiya-ku, Saitama

    is a wards of Japan of Saitama, Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is in the Greater Tokyo Area and about 25 km north of central Tokyo. Omiya-ku is surrounded by Nishi-ku, Saitama , Kita-ku, Saitama , Minuma-ku, Saitama , Urawa-ku, Saitama , Chuo-ku, Saitama , and Sakura-ku, Saitama of Saitama city....
     is now a part of Saitama City.


Poland

  • Koluszki
    Koluszki

    Koluszki [] is a town, and a major railway junction, in Central Poland, in L?dz Voivodeship, about 20 km east of L?dz. Population: 13,331 . The junction in Koluszki serves trains that go from Warsaw to L?dz , Wroclaw, Czestochowa and Katowice....
  • Herby Nowe


Russia

  • Novosibirsk
    Novosibirsk

    Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast....
    , now the 3rd largest city in Russia


United Kingdom

  • Crewe
    Crewe

    Crewe is a town in Cheshire, England. It is the largest town in the borough of Crewe and Nantwich, in which it is the only unparished area. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683....
  • Darlington
    Darlington

    Darlington is a town in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England, and the main population centre in the Darlington . Darlington has a resident population of 97,838....
  • Didcot
    Didcot

    Didcot is a town in the Thames Valley, in the England county of Oxfordshire . The town is located approximately 10 miles south of the city of Oxford....
  • Doncaster
    Doncaster

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

    Eastleigh is a former railway town in Hampshire, England, and the main town in the Eastleigh . The town lies between Southampton and Winchester, Hampshire, and is part of the South Hampshire conurbation....
  • Haywards Heath
    Haywards Heath

    Haywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and east northeast of the county town of Chichester....
  • Newton Abbot
    Newton Abbot

    Newton Abbot is a market town in Devon, England on the River Teign, with a population of 23,580 .Newton Abbot has a Newton Abbot Racecourse and boasts three country parks: Decoy, Stover and Bradley....
     - site of Great Western Railway
    Great Western Railway

    The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
  • Sheringham
    Sheringham

    Sheringham is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, located west of Cromer.Historically, the parish of Sheringham comprised the two villages of Upper Sheringham, a farming community, and Lower Sheringham, which combined farming with fishing....
  • Swindon
    Swindon

    Swindon is a City sized town and unitary borough authority in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in South West England England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, Berkshire, east....
  • Wolverton
    Wolverton, Milton Keynes

    Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, in the Buckinghamshire#Ceremonial county, England. It is at its northern edge, between Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell....
  • York
    York

    York is a walled city, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire and River Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city status in the United Kingdom is noted for its rich heritage and it has played an important role throughout much of its almost 2,000 year existence....


United States

  • Altoona, Pennsylvania
    Altoona, Pennsylvania

    Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the principal city of the Altoona, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  • Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
    , 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 is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee....
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Davis, California
    Davis, California

    Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento, California–Arden-Arcade, California–Roseville, California Sacramento metropolitan area....
  • Etowah, Tennessee
    Etowah, Tennessee

    Etowah is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,663 at the 2000 census....
  • Sacramento, California
    Sacramento, California

    Sacramento is the Capital of the United States U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County, California. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive California Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California.....
  • Woodland, California
    Woodland, California

    Woodland is the county seat of Yolo County, California, located approximately 15 miles northwest of Sacramento, California, and is a part of the Sacramento - Arden-Arcade, California - Roseville, California Sacramento metropolitan area....
  • Benson, Arizona
    Benson, Arizona

    Benson is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, Arizona, in the United States, 45 miles east-southeast of Tucson, Arizona. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 4,934....


See also

  • Crossroads village
    Crossroads village

    Crossroads village is a term that refers to a settlement, primarily in U.S. Colonial America, that was situated where two or more roads would intersect....
  • Company town
    Company town

    A company town is a town or city in which all real estate, buildings , utilities, hospitals, small businesses such as grocery stores and gas stations, and other necessities or luxuries of life within its borders are owned by a single company ....