Railway town

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A railway town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site.

Examples include

[edit] The Americas

• Davis, CA
• Woodland, CA
• Sacramento, CA
• Etowah, Tennessee
• Field, British Columbia
• Cochrane, Ontario

[edit] Europe

• Crewe
• Grampound Road, near Grampound in Cornwall - did not exist prior to railways
• Haywards Heath
• Newton Abbot - site of Great Western Railway
• Middlesbrough - grew from insignificance to becoming a major port after the railways came
• Sheringham
• Wodonga
• Wolverton
• Atlanta, Georgia, at one time named Terminus because it was the terminal of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
• Altenbeken
• Hamm

[edit] See also

• Crossroads village