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52 relations: Animas River, Ashford, Kent, Atlanta, Boomtown, Bournville, Changchun, Chisholm Trail, Colorado, Company town, Corporation, Crewe, Crossroads village, Daniel Gooch, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Doncaster, Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango Micropolitan Statistical Area, Durango, Colorado, First Transcontinental Railroad, Francis Webb (engineer), Frome, George Leeman, Grand Junction Railway, Great Western Railway, Hell on Wheels, Heritage railway, History of Chicago, History of Los Angeles, Industrial action, Junction (rail), Kansas, Kendal, La Plata County, Colorado, Land lot, List of railway towns, Middlesbrough, Neasden, Peterborough, Railhead, Russian Dalian, Sayre, Pennsylvania, Silverton, Colorado, South Manchuria Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Suburb, Swindon, Train station, Union Pacific Railroad, Victorian era, William Abraham Bell, ..., Wolverton, YMCA. Expand index (2 more) »
Animas River
Animas River (on-ee-moss) (Río de las Ánimas, in Spanish) is a river in the western United States, a tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River System.
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Ashford, Kent
Ashford is a town in the county of Kent, England.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Boomtown
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch.
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Bournville
Bournville is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate – including a dark chocolate bar branded Bournville.
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Changchun
Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, and is also the core city of Northeast Asia.
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Chisholm Trail
The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Company town
A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.
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Corporation
A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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Crewe
Crewe ('Cryw' in Welsh) is a railway town and civil parish within the borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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Crossroads village
In Colonial American history, a crossroads village is a settlement that was situated where two or more roads would intersect.
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Daniel Gooch
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.
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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.
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Doncaster
Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.
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Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Durango Micropolitan Statistical Area
The Durango Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Durango area of the State of Colorado.
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Durango, Colorado
The City of Durango is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States.
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First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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Francis Webb (engineer)
Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 – 4 June 1906) was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
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Frome
Frome is a town and civil parish in eastern Somerset, England.
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George Leeman
George Leeman (August 1809 – 25 February 1882) was a lawyer, railwayman and a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of York in the nineteenth century.
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Grand Junction Railway
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Hell on Wheels
The phrase "Hell on Wheels" was originally used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1860s North America.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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History of Chicago
The history of Chicago, Illinois, has played a central role in American economic, cultural and political history and since the 1850s has been one of the most dominant Midwest metropolises.
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History of Los Angeles
The written history of Los Angeles city and county began with a Colonial Mexican town that was founded by 11 Mexican families which were known as "Los Pobladores" that established a settlement in Southern California that changed little in the three decades after 1848, when California became part of the United States.
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Industrial action
Industrial action (Europe, India, South Africa and Australia) or job action (Canada and US) refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour, most times when they are forced out of work due to contract termination and no agreement being reached, meant to reduce productivity in a workplace.
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Junction (rail)
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.
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Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
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Kendal
Kendal, anciently known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England.
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La Plata County, Colorado
La Plata County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Land lot
In real estate, a lot or plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s).
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List of railway towns
This is a list of railway towns.
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, north-east England, founded in 1830.
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Neasden
Neasden is an area in northwest London, United Kingdom.
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Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.
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Railhead
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Russian Dalian
As a portion of the Guandong Leased Territories (Guandong zhou), the city of Dalian came under the territorial control of Russia from 1898 until that country’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
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Sayre, Pennsylvania
Sayre is the largest borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Elmira, New York.
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Silverton, Colorado
The town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.
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South Manchuria Railway
The South Manchuria Railway (南滿洲鐵道: Japanese Minamimanshū Tetsudō; Chinese Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào), officially South Manchuria Railway Company (南満洲鐵道株式會社: Minamimanshū Tetsudō Kabushikigaisha; Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào Zhūshìhuìshè), or 南鐵 Mantetsu for short (Mǎntiě in Chinese), was a large National Policy Company (国策会社) of Japan whose primary function was the operation of railways on the Dalian–Fengtian (Mukden)–Changchun (called Xinjing from 1931 to 1945) corridor in northeastern China, as well as on several branch lines.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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Swindon
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.
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Train station
A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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William Abraham Bell
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Wolverton
Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes in north Buckinghamshire, England.
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YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_town
