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47-455: Hurup , in postal and railway terms Hurup Thy , is a railway town in the municipality of Thisted in northwestern Jutland , Denmark . It has a population of 2,712 (1 January 2024). Hurup is the second largest town in the traditional district of Thy . From 1970 to 2006, it was the administrative centre of Sydthy municipality . Hurup ows its existence to the Struer-Thisted railway which

94-454: A land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner (s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in other countries. Possible owners of a plot can be one or more persons or another legal entity, such as a company, corporation , organization , government , or trust . A common form of ownership of

141-661: 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

188-563: 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

235-464: A large tract of land into lots as a subdivision . Certain areas of the land are dedicated (given to local government for permanent upkeep) as streets and sometimes alleys for transport and access to lots. Areas between the streets are divided up into lots to be sold to future owners. The layout of the lots is mapped on a plat diagram, which is recorded with the government, typically the county recorder's office . The blocks between streets and

282-416: A lot's area. Lots can come in various sizes and shapes. To be considered a single lot, the land described as the "lot" must be contiguous. Two separate parcels are considered two lots, not one. Often a lot is sized for a single house or other building. Many lots are rectangular in shape, although other shapes are possible as long as the boundaries are well-defined. Methods of determining or documenting

329-500: A minimum lot area and/or frontage length for building a house or other building, maximum building size, or minimum setbacks from a lot boundary for building a structure. This is in addition to building codes which must be met. Also, minimum lot sizes and separations must be met when wells and septic systems are used. In urban areas, sewers and water lines often provide service to households. There may also be restrictions based on covenants established by private parties such as

376-455: 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

423-420: A periodic property tax payable by the owners to local governments such as a county or municipality . These real estate taxes are based on the assessed value of the real property; additional taxes usually apply to transfer of ownership and property sales. Other fees by government are possible for improvements such as curbs and pavements or an impact fee for building a house on a vacant plot. Property owners in

470-522: A plot is called fee simple in some countries. A small area of land that is empty except for a paved surface or similar improvement, typically all used for the same purpose or in the same state is also often called a plot. Examples are a paved car park or a cultivated garden plot. This article covers plots (more commonly called lots in some countries) as defined parcels of land meant to be owned as units by an owner(s). Like most other types of property, lots or plots owned by private parties are subject to

517-401: 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

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564-688: 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

611-426: Is known, from the deed, then the frontage line can be calculated as depth by measuring the width (as area divided by width = depth). Sometimes minor, usually unnamed driveways called alleys , usually publicly owned, also provide access to the back of a lot. When alleys are present, garages are often located in back of a lot with access from the alley. Also when there are alleys, garbage collection may take place from

658-687: The Tea & Sugar train ran weekly. The Hamilton suburb of Frankton is located at the junction of the North Island Main Trunk and the East Coast Main Trunk . Frankton was originally an independent borough but it merged with Hamilton Borough in 1917. In the 20th century, Frankton was a busy railway town, with both industrial and passenger uses. Frankton includes a historic area of 1920s pre-fabricated cottages originally built for railway workers. Lot (real estate) In real estate ,

705-587: 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

752-480: The United States and various other countries are also subject to zoning and other restrictions. These restrictions include building height limits, restrictions on architectural style of buildings and other structures, setback laws, etc. In New Zealand land lots are generally described as sections. A lot has defined boundaries (or borders) which are documented somewhere, but the boundaries need not be shown on

799-450: The real estate developer . There may be easements for utilities to run water, sewage, electric power , or telephone lines through a lot. Something which is meant to improve the value or usefulness of a lot can be called an appurtenance to the lot. Structures such as buildings , driveways , pavements , patios or other surfaces, wells , septic systems , signs, and similar improvements which are considered permanently attached to

846-598: 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

893-742: 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

940-572: 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

987-510: 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

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1034-463: The Thisted-Struer course and post office . In 1930, the city had a technical school, police station for 54. Politikreds (Hassing-Revs Herreder), pharmacy , doctors , veterinarian, Thylands Bank (instead of Cooperative Bank), 2 hotels, utility association, cooperative dairy, margarine factory and telegraph station, fire station for a set up fire zone (Falcks) and with own fire extinguisher. In

1081-401: The alley. Lots at the corners of a block have two sides of frontage and are called corner lots. Corner lots may have the advantage that a garage can be built with street access from the side, but have the disadvantage that there is more parkway lawn to mow and more pavement to shovel snow from. In areas with large blocks, homes are sometimes built in the center of the block. In this situation,

1128-641: 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

1175-437: The boundaries of a lot are not indicated on the lot, a survey of the lot can be made to determine where the boundaries are according to the lot descriptions or plat diagrams. Formal surveys are done by qualified surveyors , who can make a diagram or map of the lot showing boundaries, dimensions, and the locations of any structures such as buildings, etc. Such surveys are also used to determine if there are any encroachments to

1222-399: The boundaries of lots include metes and bounds , quadrant method , and use of a plat diagram. Use of the metes and bounds method may be compared to drawing a polygon . Metes are points which are like the vertices (corners) of a polygon. Bounds are line segments between two adjacent metes. Bounds are usually straight lines, but can be curved as long as they are clearly defined. When

1269-557: 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

1316-414: The individual lots in each block are given an identifier, usually a number or letter. Land originally granted by the government was commonly done by documents called land patents . Lots of land can be sold/bought by the owners or conveyed in other ways. Such conveyances are made by documents called deeds which should be recorded by the government, typically the county recorder's office. Deeds specify

1363-465: The land in the lot are considered to be real property, usually part of the lot but often parts of a building, such as condominiums , are owned separately. Such structures owned by the lot owner(s), as well as easements which help the lot owners or users, can be considered appurtenances to the lot. A lot without such structures can be called a vacant lot, urban prairie, spare ground, an empty lot, or an unimproved or undeveloped lot. Many developers divide

1410-466: The land itself. Most lots are small enough to be mapped as if they are flat, in spite of the curvature of the Earth . A characteristic of the size of a lot is its area . The area is typically determined as if the land is flat and level, although the terrain of the lot may not be flat, i. e, the lot may be hilly. The contour surface area of the land is changeable and may be too complicated for determining

1457-452: 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,

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1504-402: The lot by including a description such as one determined by the "metes and bounds" or quadrant methods, or referring to a lot number and block number in a recorded plat diagram. Deeds often mention that appurtenances to the lot are included in order to convey any structures and other improvements also. In front of many lots in urban areas, there are pavements , usually publicly owned. Beyond

1551-532: The lot will usually include a long driveway to provide transport access. Because the shape is reminiscent of a flag (the home) on a flag pole (the driveway), these lots are called flag lots. Local governments often pass zoning laws which control what buildings can be built on a lot and what they can be used for. For example, certain areas are zoned for residential buildings such as houses. Other areas can be commercially, agriculturally, or industrially zoned. Sometimes zoning laws establish other restrictions, such as

1598-410: The lot. Surveyors can sometimes place posts at the metes of a lot. The part of the boundary of the lot next to a street or road is the frontage. Developers try to provide at least one side of frontage for every lot, so owners can have transport access to their lots. As the name implies, street frontage determines which side of the lot is the front, with the opposite side being the back. If the lot area

1645-650: 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

1692-650: 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

1739-617: 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

1786-484: 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

1833-708: 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

1880-518: The town a memorial hall was placed with memorial to guestgiver Nyeboe and wife who had donated the plant. Railway town 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

1927-399: 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

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1974-467: 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 ,

2021-457: 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

2068-486: Was built in 1882. The then larger village of Vestervig , 7 km (4 mi) further west, was the traditional centre of the area, but opted against getting a railway station. Today the biggest industries are Ideal Combi ( windows ), with more than 500 employees, Huma ( mattresses ) and a furniture factory . Hurup was the home town of Lars Larsen , founder of the Jysk retail chain and one of Denmark's wealthiest persons. Hurup

2115-446: Was designated as a "Growing Parish and Station City" with church (with a runestone found in 1910), mission house, preschool, schools, middle and real school, cooperative bank, power station, waterworks, marketplace, several major grocery stores and industrial plants such as dairy , brewery , machine plant and iron foundry, cement factories, sawmills etc. as well as place of election for the county's 2nd parliamentary district, station on

2162-752: Was in 1682 a village consisting of 6 farms and 3 houses with land. Hurup Station village developed after the construction of the Struer – Thisted railroad in 1882. By the turn of the century, Hurup, which, in addition to the railroad, was also favored by its location on the mainland road, by church, preschool, school, primary school, real school, doctorate, Thylands Bank (established October 1 1895), hotel, catering, brewery, marketplace (markets in February, June and September), grocery stores, machinery and iron foundry, dairy, woolen spinach, hot tub, export warehouse, cement factory, railway and telegraph station. About 1920, Hurup

2209-545: 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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