List of railway towns

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This is a list of railway towns.

Armenia

Australia

Bangladesh

Brazil

Canada

Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act of 1872, 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. [7]

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Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Italy

Jordan

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Japan

Japanese National Railways (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially. [9] The list below shows the official railway towns, but there are many other towns where town officials and residents think of their town as a railway town.

Malaysia

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Russia

Spain

There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain: [10]

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

Partial railway towns

Railway villages

Partial railway villages

Railway neighborhoods

Partial railway neighborhoods


Sweden

Thailand

Turkmenistan

Bereket Railway Station built in 1885. A newly constructed railway station in Bereket city, October 2013.jpg
Bereket Railway Station built in 1885.

United Kingdom

United States


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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ramanathapuram railway station</span> Railway station in Tamil Nadu, India

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Panruti railway station is a railway station serving the town of Panruti in Tamil Nadu, India.

Tiruppattur Junction railway station is a railway station serving the town of Tiruppattur in Tamil Nadu, India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rasipuram railway station</span> Rasipuram Junction

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