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a railway line built to facilitate the colonizing of unsettled areas; also, the company building or operating such a line.
See: colonization railway
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1933
Commenced as a colonization line by the Provincial Government, with the object of enabling the clay belt to be settled, valuable mining interests were later established along a portion of this route.