List of railway towns

This is a list of railway towns.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Australia

Canada

Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act of 1870, 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.[6]

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

Jordan

 
 Jordan Hejaz Railway Corporation

Mafraq Amman Ma'an

Japan

Japanese National Railways (JNR) had chosen 12 major railway towns officially.[7] 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.

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

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
Main article: List of railway towns in the United States

Bangladesh

India

Spain

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

  • 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

Partial railway towns

Railway villages

Partial railway villages

Railway neighborhoods

Partial railway neighborhoods

Portugal

References
  1. "Peterborough - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  2. "Serviceton - Victoria - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au". Melbourne: www.theage.com.au. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  3. John C. Jennings and Robert K. Whitehead (July 2005). Seymour - A Railway Town. Seymour and District Historical Society. ISBN 0-9751658-0-1.
  4. http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=VIC&region=157&view=175 Heritage Australia
  5. Rogers, Philippa. "The Australian Railway Monument and Rail Journeys Museum". Labor History. www.historycooperative.org. 90. Archived from the original on 29 June 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
  6. Lucas, Rex. A. 1971. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown; life in Canadian communities of single industry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  7. Asahi Shimbun March 3, 1986 evening edition
  8. Weinreb, Ben, and Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 45.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  9. Weinreb, Ben, and Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 376.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  10. Domingo Cuéllar Villar, Miguel Jiménez Vega and Francisco Polo Muriel (coords.). Historia de los poblados ferroviarios en España. Ed.: Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles. Madrid, 2005.
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