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	Guide to Attractions in Struer Town
		Bricks for the town's houses came from Struer Teglværk, which used to lie in the middle of the town at the present Tegltorv.
		In subsequent years, both the town and the railway grew explosively, and as Struer evolved into one of Denmark's most important junctions, the station had to be expanded several times.
		This made the town the centre of a catchment area stretching north to Thisted, south to Holstebro west to Lemvig and east to Skive.
	www.struermuseum.dk /kultur/str-115e.htm (2128 words)

	Nowogrodskie Wojewodztwo - Town Descriptions
		The 1928 population of the miastechzko was 514 and 393 for the gmina town.
		The 1928 population was 2,630.The railway was in 16 km.
		The 1928 population was 306.The railway was in 4 km.
	www.kresy.co.uk /nowogrodskie_towns.html (7812 words)

	Settlement - New Communities - Camrose promotional brochure
		Every town that springs from the western prairie sod, may be said to be full of latent possibilities.
		Railway facilities may give it exceptional prominence, it may have developed a profitable coal mining industry, or its hopes maybe well founded on the strength of it being in the centre of a magnificent agricultural district.
		To the other civic undertakings which mark a progressive town council, there is to be added this year the construction of cement sidewalks along the first two blocks of Main Street.
	www.abheritage.ca /pasttopresent/settlement/camrose_brochure.html (1791 words)

	Railway
		Historic is truly the appropriate adjective for White River, a town whose heritage tells a unique story of a distinct kind of community in a specific era of Canadian history.
		The railway era was the time in Canada's past during which rail was the most important means for moving people and things in and out of town.
		The Canadian Pacific Railway had railway towns in the Rocky Mountains, the Canadian Prairies, and the Canadian Shield, all of which had different purposes and different personalities.
	www.nwconx.net /~museum/railway.htm (731 words)

	Gembrook Town
		Railways were built for a purpose and although they exist as distinct entities with often their own particular characters, they also form strong and vital links with the communities they serve, and contribute in a major way to local economies and culture.
		The railway responded to the growth in tonnage in the ways and means necessary to meet demand.
		This integration was reflected both in the way the town grew around the station and in the way the railway facilities changed to meet the demands of local business and community.
	www.puffingbilly.com.au /fan/heritage/GembrookTown.htm (2264 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - History - Cambrian Railways
		The 1860s were part of the golden age of railways, when hundreds of small companies sprung up and built tiny branch lines, backed by private investors speculating in the hope of making a fast buck.
		Eventually, a landowner offered to sell some of his land to allow the railway to be built across it, along with a station at Gobowen, three miles away from Oswestry.
		Oswestry became a vast railway town, Shropshire's answer to Crewe or Swindon.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/history/2003/03/oswestry_railway.shtml (711 words)

	North Norfolk Railway - Sheringham Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There was a convenient gap in the cliffs for them to reach their vessels, the smaller boats of the type still used today, and the 'great boats', the sailing luggers in which they would sail further afield.
		The neighbouring town of Cromer has become extremely popular in the 1880s, and the number of visitors were more than that town could cope with.
		The town had a building boom and many of the houses in the town centre date from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
	www.nnrailway.co.uk /sheringham_town.htm (626 words)

	Welcome to The Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
		The Rother Valley Railway extended up the hill from Rolvenden in 1903 and onwards to Headcorn in 1905 (abandoned in 1954) renaming itself the Kent and East Sussex Railway in the process.
		Nearest the road is the Station office which was the railways operational office when opened (the administration was undertaken at Tonbridge) and which is still used by the Stationmaster.
		The platform is still lit by lampposts manufactured by the railway at Rolvenden in a pioneering use of concrete by W H Austin.
	www.kesr.org.uk /stations/tenterden.htm (857 words)

	Junee - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
		The town soon became one of the state's most important railway centres and it benefited from the consequent need for accommodation and railway repair facilities.
		Junee is a railway town and the The Roundhouse Rail and Transport Museum, at the southern end of town, records the town's relationship with the railway.
		The railway station is an impressive building which is located at the southern end of Main St. It was built in 1881 in the French Renaissance style under the supervision of John Whitton, Chief Engineer of the NSW government railways, and features a cast-iron entrance verandah.
	www.theage.com.au /news/new-south-wales/junee/2005/02/17/1108500196924.html (1990 words)

	A History of Ormondville Railway Station
		Instead, “the morning train from Napier, having Mr Miller, railway manager, Mr Carr, resident engineer, and a few passengers aboard, proceeded as far as Ormondville station” A number of children and a few men, whose presence on the platform was mostly from curiosity, watched the train arrive.
		The railway provided the impetus that transformed the district from towering native forest (known deceivingly as ‘bush’) to farmland.
		The town was now a bustling rural service center that catered to the surrounding district and the underlying cause was the railway – and the station.
	www.geocities.com /ormondvillerail/ormstation.html (2935 words)

	Neyland
		In addition to Neyland always being associated with the railways, Fishing, Boat building, and the Packet Boat trade have all made their impressions felt on the Town.However, the Beeching cuts saw the closure of the railway in 1964.
		The County Town of Haverfordwest, is but 10 miles away, with Cardiff the capital of Wales a two hour drive to the east, with Ireland being a three and half hour sea crossing to the west.
		The Town now has a rapidly growing population of almost 5000 people, and a comprehensive list of the facilities available in the Town can be found on this, the Town Council’s Community Web-Site.
	www.pembrokeshire-wales.info /neyland (508 words)

	The Camden-Town Railway (1851)
		On the left, but at some distance from the railway, is seen the square tower of Stepney Church, the mother church of most of the parishes in the eastern part of London.
		In constructing the railway across the road at this place it was necessary to take down a tavern, which the company have replaced by one of larger structure on the site of the old building, by erecting the same upon iron girders over the railway.
		Through the high level of Islington the railway is in a cutting averaging 16 feet deep, with walls of massive brickwork to sustain the clay soil of which the district consists.
	www.mernick.co.uk /thhol/camdento.html (1513 words)

	Camden Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camden Town is an inner-city district located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north north-west of Charing Cross, famous for its crowded market and as a centre for alternative lifestyles.
		The Roundhouse is a railway building constructed in 1847 for the London and Birmingham Railway.
		Camden Town Underground station was not designed for the volume of traffic it now attracts, is very crowded all weekend, and is closed to outbound passengers on Sunday afternoons, the peak time, for reasons of safety.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camden_Town (1582 words)

	The Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway: Streetcars, Casino, Bridge, and Municipal Folly, 1897-1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On April 11, 1891, the Hampton Street Railway was chartered by the Legislature and empowered to build a line from the Hampton depot to Hampton Beach and northerly along the seashore to the North Hampton town line.
		People from the four towns decided the solution was to buy the company, and they voted at town meetings to have a bill filed in the Legislature that would permit municipal ownership of the line by the four towns.
		When the Town voted to indefinitely postpone the two articles, the court suit was withdrawn and the railroad was transferred to the Town on April 6, 1921.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/randall/chap2/randall2_1.htm (8357 words)

	1989-R-95 -- Widening of the crossing of Mitchell Avenue (Devco Railway) - Town of Dominion
		The Applicant and the Railway Company are authorized to carry out the work as shown on the Plan.
		Before the widened portion of the crossing is opened for the use of the public, the Railway Company shall relocate the protective devices at the crossing.
		The Railway Company is directed to prepare all accounts using rates not in excess of those stipulated in Schedule "A" entitled Directives attached to Railway Transport Committee Order No. R-36946, dated January 20, 1984, or its replacement, for all construction and maintenance work carried out by the Railway Company under this Order.
	www.cta-otc.gc.ca /rulings-decisions/orders/1989/R/1989-R-95_e.html (234 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The main competition to the railway, as elsewhere, was the ox-wagon, but here it was particularly fierce and most of the freight of the Little Karoo was carried direct by ox-wagon to Worcester or beyond.
		To the farmers of the Little Karoo the idea of a railway was most attractive, holding out as it did prospects of connecting eastward with the Midland line and so opening up markets for their produce in both directions.
		Moreover, since the New Cape Central Railways was now becoming an important part of the railway network, the Cape Government had taken the precaution of ensuring that the tariff on the new section would be the same as on the older section, and that a change of tariff could not take place without its consent.
	www.capepostalhistory.com /CapeGovernmentRailway.html (3148 words)

	A railway walk
		I left the railway here for the road, taking time to pause in the village's churchyard lit by the low evening sunshine, before crossing back to the line via a footpath, the better to see Helmdon viaduct.
		To the north we were drawing close to a second meeting place for railways - Woodford Halse, where the company established extensive workshops and marshalling yards in a remote country location where land was cheap, the result being a small railway town of red brick terraces put down among the ironstone villages of Northamptonshire's uplands.
		In 1991 the Central Railway Group proposed a supergauge lorry on train freight link using the line, and this proposal, modified, is still being progressed after a defeat in parliament in 1996.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /leopold/mark/gcr/index.html (4038 words)

	Peterborough - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		There was news that the town would soon be connected to the mines in Broken Hill by a railway.
		The public school was opened (1883), the Town Hall erected (1884) and the town was declared a municipality (1886).
		It is entirely appropriate that one of the main attraction in an old railway town should be the old railway workshop with its displays of steam engines and carriages.
	www.smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Peterborough/2005/02/17/1108500204567.html (630 words)

	Yarmouth South Town Railway Station
		Great Yarmouth's South Town station was originally the terminus of the East Suffolk Railway and had a direct service from London Liverpool Street via Ipswich and Beccles.
		The line from South Town to Lowestoft was run by the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway Committee, a shared operation with the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
		In moving a wagon or wagons across the public road between the Passenger and Goods stations, the horse, or horses, must not be attached to the side of the wagon, or wagons, but must in all cases be attached in front so that persons passing along the road may see the whole operation.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /berneyarms/html/yarmouth/rail/southtown/southtown.htm (379 words)

	St.Thomas - The Railway Capital of Canada \| St. Thomas - The Railway Capital of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At its peak, St. Thomas was a hub for a multitude of prominent railways, and served as the primary stop on the Canadian short cut between Detroit and Buffalo.
		As the railways began to lose their prominence in the mid-20th century, St. Thomas saw its fortunes take a similar turn.
		The current community focus is a fundraising effort to save the old railway station, originally built in 1872.
	www.railwaycapital.ca (506 words)

	Notes Towards a Street Railway History of Chatham, Ontario
		Alfred Craddock, chairman of the railway committee of the town council, complaints had been received as far back as April, of dangerous ruts beside the rails, inadequate crossings, etc. The council had used every means in their power to get the company to attend to the necessary repairs, but without avail.
		The question of having a street railway or not having one is an important question to the town, and should be fully considered before the last measure is resorted to as it is presently proposed.
		Now that the town is about constructing a new pavement along King street, should it not pave the street, and then compel the company to keep that portion between their rails and the usual amount on the outside in thorough repair.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/chatham-notes.html (8843 words)

	SAR & Transnet History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first railway line in Southern Africa was laid along the Bluff in Durban, capital of Natal, and was not hauled by a steam locomotive but by oxen.
		By September 1892, the lines of the Cape Government Railways from Port Elizabeth and East London on the east coast of the Cape Colony reached Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, and both the Bloemfontein and Cape Town lines reached the Transvaal, thus opening three ports to the Rand gold fields.
		All railways in South Africa finally became a unified state-owned railway system in 1916 when the Central South African Railways, the Cape Government Railways and the Natal Government Railways were all merged by an Act of Parliament.
	mysite.mweb.co.za /residents/grela/transnet.html (1625 words)

	HOOD - WOLVERTON -CHARACTER STUDY
		The town points down the hill towards the workplace and the views from the top of the town are of the roofs of the railway workshops.
		Several railway structures of particular significance are the early railway structures built by Robert Stephenson - the Railway Viaduct.railway bridges and parts of early works survive from pre- Brunel.
		The only monumental buildings of the town were and are old railway structures, such as the Ouse Valley viaduct and the great rock-faced stone revetment of the embankment to the south of it, which once carried the first station and where now the former Royal Carriage shed (built in 1889) now stands.
	www.mkheritage.co.uk /wsah/hood/docs/character2.html (601 words)

	Quorn - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		However its greatest period of importance as a railway centre was between 1917 and 1937 when it was the junction for both the east to west and north to south railway services.
		The standardisation of gauges, and the establishment of the standard gauge railway to Marree in 1956, saw the town's importance decline.
		There is a pleasant Historic Walk through the town which includes 27 buildings and locations most of which date from the late 19th and early 20th century when the town was an important railway centre.
	www.smh.com.au /news/south-australia/quorn/2005/02/17/1108500204651.html (980 words)

	Making the Modern World - The railway town: Swindon
		This led to the formation of large railway works and adjacent housing: the beginnings of a series of railway works and railway towns such as Crewe, Wolverton, Derby and Eastleigh.
		Built at a major junction of the railway, it was built outside and separate from the old town of Swindon which it eventually absorbed.
		The growth of railways in England and Wales, 1778 to 1855
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /learning_modules/history/04.TU.03/?section=8 (416 words)

	Carnforth a North Lancashire Railway Town
		Known for its railway station and the film Brief Encounter the town is today a busy shopping center and the centre of the local limestone quarrying industry.
		The towns history is linked with the communications of the area, long before the railways came the then village was a Centre on the main north road, now the A6 and M6, later the canal and finally the railways played a part in shaping today's town.
		From 1960 to 1968 Carnforth was known as the northern end of the M6, up until 1970 it was still the northern end of the M6's main section the motorway ending at a roundabout on the A6 about a mile north of the town.
	www.route6.co.uk /carnforth.php (408 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It called for a single line of railway (except at terminals and sidings), as well as a telegraph line; the work would start within six months and was to be completed by 5th April 1861 - failing which heavy penalties were to be paid.
		The ceremony of turning the first sod on the railway was fixed for 31st March 1859 - a date suggested by the Governor, Sir George Grey, as it coincided with the parade day of the volunteer corps which could then be present at the ceremony.
		The reason why this spot and not Cape Town proper had been selected as the terminus of the railway was that carrying a line along the seashore to Cape Town through the military defences without interfering with the defence of the city would have caused problems.
	www.capepostalhistory.com /Railway-Cape-Wellington.html (3850 words)

	Interurban Railway, Town of Lisbon / Village of Sussex Local History
		The interurban railway could have been a new and modern way of life for the area, simulating personal transportation and the economy.
		Third, That the construction of such railway between Sussex and the city shall be commenced within twelve months after the approval of said proposed route..., and such construction shall be diligently prosecuted by said railway between Sussex and said city completed and regular service commenced thereon within thirty months from such date...
		These towns, villages and cities are receiving considerable amounts of cash because of the railway lines in their territory, whereas they impose no expense, care or burden upon the municipalities.
	www.slahs.org /history/local/transportation/interurban.htm (601 words)

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