This is a list of railway towns .
Armenia
Australia
Cook, South Australia Ivanhoe, New South Wales [ 1] Junee , New South WalesHoyleton , South Australia [ 2] Korong Vale , Victoria Peterborough, South Australia [ 3] Serviceton , Victoria[ 4] Seymour, Victoria [ 5] Shepparton , Victoria[ 6] Werris Creek , New South Wales[ 7]
Bangladesh
Brazil
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Canada
Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act 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.[ 8]
Czech Republic
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.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Adra , West BengalArakkonam , Tamil NaduArsikere , KarnatakaAsansol , West BengalBangarapet , KarnatakaBhusawal , MaharashtraBina , Madhya PradeshBirur , KarnatakaChakradharpur , JharkhandChengalpattu , Tamil NaduChittaranjan , West BengalDindigul , Tamil NaduErode , Tamil NaduItarsi , Madhya PradeshIrugur , Tamil NaduJamalpur , BiharJolarpettai , Tamil NaduKaraikudi , Tamil NaduKarur , Tamil NaduKatni , Madhya PradeshKatpadi , Tamil NaduKharagpur , West BengalManamadurai , Tamil NaduMayiladuthurai , Tamil NaduMughalsarai , Uttar PradeshNidamangalam , Tamil NaduOlavakkode , Palakkad , KeralaPeralam , Tamil NaduPollachi , Tamil NaduShoranur , KeralaThiruthuraipoondi , Tamil NaduThiruvarur , Tamil NaduVanchi Maniyachchi , Tamil NaduVillupuram , Tamil NaduVirudunagar , Tamil NaduVriddachalam , Tamil Nadu
Italy
Jordan
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Japan
Japanese National Railways (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially.[ 10]
Iwamizawa, Hokkaidō - Iwamizawa engine depot and center of coal transport in Hokkaido.Oiwake, Hokkaidō - now part of Abira, Hokkaidō - Oiwake engine depot and another center of coal transport in Hokkaido.Tsuchizaki - part of Akita, Akita , Tsuchizaki engine depot and Tsuchizaki railway works.Niitsu, Niigata - now part of Niigata, Niigata . Junction of Shinetsu Main Line and Uetsu Main Line , Niitsu engine depot and Niitsu railway works.Ōmiya, Saitama - now a part of Saitama City. Junction of Tōhoku Main Line and Takasaki Line , Omiya railway works and Omiya marshalling yard.Maibara, Shiga - Junction of Tōkaidō Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line , Maibara engine depot and Maibara marshalling yard.Suita, Osaka - Suita marshalling yard, which was the largest marshalling yard in Japan.Tadotsu, Kagawa - Junction of Yosan Line and Dosan Line , Tadotsu railway works.Yonago, Tottori - Goto railway works.Tsuwano, Shimane - Tsuwano engine depot.Nōgata, Fukuoka - Center of coal transport for Chikuho coalfield.Tosu, Saga - Junction of Kagoshima Main Line and Nagasaki Main Line , Tosu engine depot and Tosu marshalling yard.
Malaysia
Gemas , Negeri Sembilan - interchange between the electric line the East Coast line and the line to Johor Bahru and Singapore Pulau Sebang , Melaka - one of two railway stations in Melaka, forming a conurbation with Tampin , Negeri Sembilan across the borderBatang Melaka , Melaka Sungai Buloh , Selangor - home to Malaysia's largest leprosarium Port Swettenham , Selangor - Malaysia's principal portTanjong Malim , Perak - southernmost station in Perak state, last station of the Port Swettenham Komuter line Ipoh , Perak - capital of Perak state, former tin mining centreTaiping, Perak - Malaya's first railway line, former tin mining areaPadang Besar , Perlis - northernmost station of the Malayan Railways network, on the border with Thailand Kuala Lipis , Pahang - former capital of PahangKuala Krai and Dabong , Kelantan Tumpat , Kelantan - last station of the East Coast branch lineSegamat , Johor Kluang , Johor Tenom , Sabah - last station on the North Borneo Railway , the only railway in Borneo
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Spain
There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain:[ 11]
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 , Province of Badajoz
Linares-Baeza, Linares , Province of Jaén
Fuente del Arco's station, Fuente del Arco , Province of Badajoz
Moreda's station, Morelábor, Province of Granada
La Encina, Villena , Province of Alicante
Monfragüe's station (Plasencia-Empalme until middle 1970s; Palazuelo-Empalme until 27 May 1990), Malpartida de Plasencia , Province of Cáceres
Bobadilla's station, Antequera , Province of Málaga
Vadollano, Linares , Province of Jaén
Espelúy's station, Espelúy , Province of Jaén
Algodor , Aranjuez , Community of Madrid Arroyo-Malpartida, Cáceres , Province of Cáceres
Chinchilla's station, Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón , Province of Albacete
Puente de los Fierros, Lena , Asturias
Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme ), Maçanet de la Selva and Massanes , Province of Girona
Partial railway towns
Los Rosales (Tocina-Empalme until 1 August 1914), Tocina , Province of Seville
Villanueva del Río y Minas , Province of Seville Canfranc's station , Canfranc , Province of Huesca Sierra Menera, Ojos Negros , Province of Teruel
Barruelo de Santullán , Province of Palencia Venta de Baños , Province of Palencia Portbou , Province of Girona Prat del Pinter, Ogassa, Province of Girona
Castejón , Navarre Valencia de Alcántara's station, Valencia de Alcántara , Province of Cáceres
Railway villages
Partial railway villages
Railway neighborhoods
Belmez's station, Bélmez , Province of Córdoba (Spain)
Los Prados, Málaga , Province of Málaga
La Almozara, Zaragoza , Province of Zaragoza
Astorga-San Andrés, Astorga , Province of León
Torralba's station, Medinaceli , Province of Soria
Móra La Nova's station, Móra la Nova , Province of Tarragona
Vicálvaro's station, Madrid , Community of Madrid
Villabona's station, Llanera , Asturias
Partial railway neighborhoods
Santa Fe-Alhama, Santa Fe de Mondújar , Province of Almería
Serón's station, Serón , Province of Almería
Guadix's station, Guadix , Province of Granada
Sant Vicenç de Calders' station, El Vendrell , Province of Tarragona
Las Matas, Las Rozas de Madrid , Community of Madrid
Puerto de Sagunto, Sagunto , Province of Valencia
Aldea Moret, Cáceres , Province of Cáceres
Sweden
Thailand
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
Bereket Railway Station built in 1885.
United Kingdom
United States
References
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^ Hoyleton , localista.com.au^ "Peterborough" . Sydney Morning Herald . 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008 .^ "Serviceton" . Melbourne: The Age . 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008 .^ John C. Jennings and Robert K. Whitehead (July 2005). Seymour - A Railway Town . Seymour and District Historical Society. ISBN 0-9751658-0-1 ^ http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=VIC®ion=157&view=175 Heritage Australia^ 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 . ^ Lucas, Rex. A. 1971. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown; life in Canadian communities of single industry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
^ [1] Jordan Hejaz Railway Corporation^ Asahi Shimbun March 3, 1986 evening edition^ Domingo Cuéllar Villar, Miguel Jiménez Vega and Francisco Polo Muriel (coords.). Historia de los poblados ferroviarios en España
^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia Macmillan . p. 45. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia Macmillan . p. 376.
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