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32-735: The Olifants River has its origin between Breyten and Bethal , Mpumalanga Province . It flows north towards Limpopo Province through Witbank Dam and then the Loskop Dam and is forced east by the Transvaal Drakensberg , cutting through at the Abel Erasmus Pass and then flowing east further across the Lowveld to join with the Letaba River . It crosses into Gaza Province , Mozambique , after cutting through

64-661: A hub for the inland south and Hallsberg as a hub for the interior middle of the country. For Norway, towns such as Bryne on the west coast, Lillestrøm and Ås in the east and south of Oslo are good examples, while Skjeberg still identifies as a railway town even though no trains stop that any longer. In Victorian Britain , the spread of railways greatly affected the fate of many small towns. Peterborough and Swindon became successful due to their status as railway towns; in contrast, towns such as Frome or Kendal remained small after being bypassed by main lines. Some entirely new towns grew up around railway works. Middlesbrough

96-577: A large border station is Chiasso. Examples of railway cities in France are Tergnier and Miramas. Examples of a railway town by its border station is Cerbère, where the tracks of the Spanish broad gauge end. In Belgium, the town of Montzen is of outstanding importance in railway transport. As of 2021 Lithuanian census , 8 settlements in Lithuania have the legal classification of a Railway Station, with

128-455: A municipal concern. 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. 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

160-401: A series of YMCAs in the late nineteenth century in response. In some cases, a railroad town would be started by the railroad, often using a separate town or land company , even when another town already existed nearby. The population of the existing town would shift to the railroad town. This would create a boon for the town company and its railroad founder, which would sell off lots near

192-718: Is Entroncamento. Simeria in Romania grew into a city through new railway facilities. After the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy disintegrated and the state of Czechoslovakia was created. 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. From this the new town České Velenice developed. The reason for drawing

224-633: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Railway town A railway town , or railroad town , is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site. During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporary, " Hell on wheels " towns, made mostly of canvas tents, accompanied the Union Pacific Railroad as construction headed west. Most faded away but some became permanent settlements. In

256-854: The Lebombo Mountains by way of the Olifants Gorge, becoming the Rio dos Elefantes , and finally joining the Limpopo River after 40 km before it enters the Indian Ocean at Xai-Xai north of Maputo . Overgrazing in sections of its middle course result in the river carrying away eroded soil after heavy rains. The Olifants river has become one of the most heavily polluted rivers in South Africa, not by human or industrial waste, but by thriving green algae. A 2013 study in

288-606: The Midland Railway , which based all their engineering works, as well as their company headquarters, in the town; a large area of the town was built by the company architect, Francis Thompson . Crewe grew greatly after the Grand Junction Railway Company moved there in 1843; the two rural towns that became Crewe had a population of 500 in 1841 and the population had reached more than 40,000 by 1900. The railway town of 'New Swindon' displaced

320-872: The Tongwane , Blyde , Moses , Spekboom , Timbavati , Nkumpi , Ga-Selati , Klaserie , Makhutswi , Mohlapitse River , Lepellane River , Mohwetse River and Ngwaritsi River. Some tributaries, notably the Klein Olifants River (origin near Hendrina , joins the Olifants River downstream of the Middelburg Dam ), the Elands , Wilge and the Bronkhorstspruit , rise in the Highveld grasslands. The Shingwedzi River flows close to

352-615: The station at a substantial profit, often before the railroad ever arrived at the new townsite. Such is the case with Durango , Colorado . In the spring of 1880, William Bell of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad scoured the La Plata County area in the vicinity of Animas City, located on the Animas River . When negotiations to acquire land through the local homesteaders fell through, Bell acquired property downstream to

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384-758: 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. In western Canada, railway towns became associated with brothels and prostitution, and concerned railway companies started

416-594: The German Reichsbahn established the station Neu Bentschen, which functions as a border station and as a junction for three lines leading to the west. Since there was no larger town near the new station, the Deutsche Reichsbahn had a railway settlement built, which subsequently grew into a town. It was given the name Neu Bentschen (today Zbąszynek). An example of a railway town in Portugal

448-533: The Kruger Park found that the river was mesotrophic, meaning that nutrient levels were fairly low, though a slight increase in nitrates could initiate eutrophication . Very high sulphate levels were attributed to coal mining and industry in the upper catchment. The Olifants River's largest tributaries are the Letaba River and the Steelpoort River known as Tubatse River. Other tributaries are

480-521: The Rio Grande in La Plata County , still passes by the townsite. In Denmark , Sweden and Norway , a related concept is the stationsby or "station town". Stationsbyer are rural towns that grew up around railways, but they were based on agricultural co-operatives and artisan communities rather than on railway industries. Among the Swedish towns mostly influenced by railways include Alvesta as

512-663: The border was the meeting of the railway lines to České Budějovice and Prague in České Velenice. Zhuzhou used to be a small town that sits next to the Xiang River in Hunan. The mining of Anyuan Coal Mines in Pingxiang, Jiangxi requires a rail line to transport the coals out of the coalfields and Zhuzhou became the destination. The railway transformed Zhuzhou into a prosperous industrial city in Hunan Province and one of

544-462: The eastward-flowing Olifants and Komati River systems. The town is located 25 km (15 mi) west of Chrissiesmeer , 30 km (19 mi) north of Ermelo , 32 km (20 mi) southwest of Carolina , and 35 km (21 mi) southeast of Hendrina . The main spoken languages are Zulu , Swati and Afrikaans . The town was built upon the Bothasrust farmstead, which itself

576-574: The foot of gradient lines are Altenhundem or Neuenmarkt. Railway towns with large border stations are Freilassing or Weil am Rhein. Knittelfeld is a railway town based on main workshops, with the Austrian Federal Railways as by far the largest employer. Arnoldstein was once an important border station to Italy. Examples in Switzerland are Olten or as the location of a railway depot for push locomotives Erstfeld. One place with

608-452: The largest of them being Panemunėlis (Railway Station)  [ lt ] , which is larger than the nearby town of Panemunėlis . 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 . Subsequently,

640-539: The majority of the population still employed in collieries such as Tselentis and Spitzkop of the Imbawula Group. Coal is still the most transported good out of Breyten. A leather factory named JCB Leather Works can also be found in Breyten. Breyten now features a private college called Xtensive ICT Academy, which is centered around information technology training. This Mpumalanga location article

672-674: The most important rail hubs in China. Changchun in China was built by the Japanese, then occupying Manchuria, as a 'model town' as part of Japan's imperialist modernisation. The first railway town at Changchun was begun by the Russians in 1898, but it excluded Chinese residents. A second major railway town was designed and built from 1905 by the South Manchuria Railway , inspired by Russian railway towns such as Dalian . It

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704-668: The neighbouring pre-existing town after the Great Western Railway moved there; a market town of 2,000 in 1840 became a railway town of 50,000 in 1905. Railways became major employers, with 6,000 people employed by them in Crewe in 1877 and 14,000 in Swindon in 1905. The growth of railway towns was often in the mould of the ' paternalistic employer ' providing housing, schools, hospitals, churches and civic buildings for their workers, similar to Cadbury's Bournville ; there

736-693: The northeastern side of the Massingir Dam reservoir and joins the left bank of the Olifants about 12 km downstream from the dam wall. Thirty large dams in the Olifants River Catchment include the following: Breyten Breyten is a small farming town in Mpumalanga , South Africa . It is situated at the foot of Klipstapel , the highest point on the watershed between the westward-flowing Vaal River system and

768-636: The railroad arrived in August 1881, the train stopped in a jubilant Durango, not Animas City. The railroad pushed on up the Animas River, reaching Silverton in July 1882, passing through Animas City without a stop. Animas City subsisted as a de facto suburb of the Durango area before annexation by Durango in 1948. The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad , a heritage railroad and successor to

800-490: The south under more favorable conditions in the name of the Durango Land and Coal Company. By the end of the year, a Durango newspaper reported all of "Animas City is coming to Durango as fast as accommodations can be secured". 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. When

832-741: The subsequent transfer of the provincial capital from historic city of Gongju made Daejeon grew into a major transportation hub in Korea. Korail 's headquarters is located in Daejeon. When the Trans-Australian Railway was built across the Nullarbor Plain in the 1910s, a series of towns were erected in South Australia and Western Australia to accommodate Commonwealth Railways ' employees. To provide supplies

864-399: Was MP for Swindon for twenty years. Crewe was a 'company town' for its first few decades as workers moved in their thousands from other parts of the country. Most social amenities and organisations were sponsored by the railway, but moves such as the establishment of a town council in 1877 slowly reduced company influence and the railway company began to consider spending on town amenities as

896-471: Was a "very rigid and unimaginative control" of the workers by GWR in Swindon. Workforces were loyal and obedient; industrial action in railway towns was rare because the workforce depended on the company. Railwaymen dominated local politics in railway towns, particularly Francis Webb 's 'Independent Railway Company Party' in Crewe and George Leeman in York. The chief mechanical engineer of GWR, Daniel Gooch ,

928-469: Was agricultural produce and livestock, but most predominantly coal from the local collieries . Due to losses in the manufacturing sector , the town has since become depressed with high unemployment . Breyten is now a stopover for tourists who are headed to either the Lowveld or Highveld . Tourists can be served by a local hotel and a few guest houses. Breyten continues to be a mining community , with

960-463: Was based on a rectangular system that contrasted with the circular walled town of old Changchun, and grid patterns became the standard for Chinese railway towns. The SMR developed dozens of railway towns in north-east China from 1906 to 1936, such as at Harbin and Mukden. Daejeon City in South Korea was a small village before the 1900s, the construction of Gyeongbu Line and Honam Line , and

992-573: Was granted to one Lukas Potgieter as compensation for his losing a leg during the First Boer War . The farm was later sold to Nicolaas Breytenbach, a field cornet during the Second Boer War , after whom the town was named in 1906. Breyten was once a vibrant railway town . Passenger and freight trains departed and connected in Breyten to Johannesburg , Nelspruit , Witbank , Pretoria and other areas of South Africa. Common freight

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1024-559: Was the first new town to be developed due to the railways, growing from a hamlet of 40 into an industrial port after the Stockton and Darlington Railway was extended in 1830. Wolverton was fields before 1838 and had a population of 1,500 by 1844. Other examples of early railway towns include Ashford (Kent), Doncaster , Neasden and Rugby . Derby came to be dominated, first by the North Midland Railway , and later

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