List of railway towns

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

There are different kinds of railway towns in Spain:[11] Some of them can be partial, non-entire.