This is a list of railway towns.
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This is a list of railway towns.
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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. [8]
Japanese National Railways (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially. [10] 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.
There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain: [11]
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.
