DCHP-3

railway town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a town or village located on a railway.

Quotations

1881
The railway is constructed to a point on the eastern side of the river opposite Selkirk, so that there is every chance of its becoming a railway town, if not a railway centre.
1952
The cultural landscape is characterized by the huge rectangular wheat fields and by the beaded strings of railway villages, each with its cluster of grain elevators.