Railway town

[1] In the 1870s successive boomtowns sprung up in Kansas, each prospering for a year or two as a railhead, and withering when the rail line extended further west and created a new endpoint for the Chisholm Trail.

Becoming rail hubs made Chicago and Los Angeles grow from small towns to large cities.

Sayre, Pennsylvania and Atlanta, Georgia were among the American company towns created by railroads in places where no settlement already existed.

[3] The population, at the time estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 people, crammed into the little "box town", where the only permanent structures were saloons, dance halls, restaurants and stores.

The chief mechanical engineer of GWR, Daniel Gooch, was MP for Swindon for twenty years.

[12] Workers organised their own institutions such as clubs, trade unions and co-operatives to gain independence from company control; they became the basis for political opposition in railway towns.

[13] Railway towns due to traffic junctions are Aulendorf, Bebra, Betzdorf, Buchloe, Falkenberg/Elster, Freilassing, Hagen, Hamm, Lehrte, Offenburg, Plattling and Treuchtlingen.

Railway towns as locations of depots for pusher locomotives at the foot of gradient lines are Altenhundem or Neuenmarkt.

Examples of a railway town by its border station is Cerbère, where the tracks of the Spanish broad gauge end.

With its marshalling yard and other railway facilities on the international Brussels/Amsterdam-Luxembourg-Metz line, Bettemburg has gained great importance in transit traffic through Luxembourg.

After World War I, the city of Bentschen (today Zbąszyń) was ceded by Weimar Germany to Poland.

In 1920, Czechoslovakia was granted some areas of Austria close to the border, including the railway station of the Lower Austrian town of Gmünd with the surrounding district.

The railway transformed Zhuzhou into a prosperous industrial city in Hunan Province and one of the most important rail hubs in China.

[14] Changchun in China was built by the Japanese, then occupying Manchuria, as a 'model town' as part of Japan's imperialist modernisation.

[15][16] Daejeon City in South Korea was a small village before the 1900s, the construction of Gyeongbu Line and Honam Line, and the subsequent transfer of the provincial capital from historic city of Gongju made Daejeon grew into a major transportation hub in Korea.