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50-718: Vamdrup is a railway town in the Region of Southern Denmark , near Kolding in Denmark with a population of 4,896 (1 January 2024). Vamdrup is served by Vamdrup station on the Fredericia–Padborg railway line . Three oak coffins were uncovered from graves in the Bronze Age mound Guldhøj in Holt near Vamdrup in 1891, and are now on display at the National Museum (Nationalmuseet). After

100-671: 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 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

150-625: A Sunday when nobody was present in the mine. In 2015, the EPA and its contractors caused an environmental catastrophe when they accidentally destroyed the plug holding water trapped inside the Gold King Mine, which caused three million US gallons (eleven thousand cubic meters) of mine waste water and tailings , to flow into a tributary of the Animas River . As of the census of 2000, there were 531 people, 255 households, and 149 families residing in

200-497: A family was $ 39,375. Males had a median income of $ 30,588 versus $ 19,886 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 16,839. About 14.0% of families and 21.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 29.4% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over. The local school system has a total of 53 K-through-12 students as of November 2006. According to the United States Census Bureau ,

250-563: 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

300-592: A long history of tourism and efforts to market tourism by the Silverton Commercial Club (now the Chamber of Commerce) dates back as early as 1913. By the 1930s, interest in the “Old West” was already attracting tourists from around the world, for which the newly constructed U.S. Route 550 further enabled access. Following World War II, the town's railroad, originally operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western for

350-505: 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

400-455: 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

450-635: A slide at the Sunnyside mine in January 1906. Only a few months later, twelve miners were killed in another slide at the Shenandoah Mine, making it one of the most deadly slides in the history of Colorado. The Spanish Flu arrived in Silverton near the end of October 1918, and quickly devastated the community. In a single week, 125 people, more than 5% of the town's population, perished from flu complications. By

500-688: 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

550-577: Is a statutory town that is the county seat , the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County , Colorado , United States. The town is located in a remote part of the western San Juan Mountains , a range of the Rocky Mountains . The first mining claims were made in mountains above the Silverton in 1860, near the end of the Colorado Gold Rush and when

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600-685: 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. Silverton, Colorado Silverton

650-647: The Purgatory Resort , is marketed as being within the Durango Metropolitan Area but is actually closer to Silverton than it is to Durango. Winter festivals such as Skijoring have brought crowds that rival those in the summer, and the potential for new winter activities such as the expansion of the town-operated ski hill could permanently improve Silverton's winter tourism. The town has also become well known for its winter backcountry activities such as snowmobiling, ice climbing, and backcountry skiing. Both

700-491: The Second War of Schleswig in 1864, where Denmark lost Southern Jutland to Germany until 1920, Vamdrup became a border town, where the railway station had important function as a border railway station. Kolding Sydbaner, a railway company that existed from 1911 to 1948, also had a railway line to Vamdrup. In connection with the industrialisation in the 1950s and 1960s Vamdrup flourished again with many new companies. Vamdrup

750-589: The Silverton Historic District . Originally called "Bakers Park", Silverton sits in a flat area of the Animas River valley and is surrounded by steep peaks. Most of the peaks surrounding Silverton are thirteeners . The highest being Storm Peak , at 13,487 feet. The town is less than 15 miles from 7 of Colorado's 53 fourteeners , and is known as one of the premier gateways into the Colorado backcountry. Silverton's last operating mine closed in 1992, and

800-591: 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 the Midland Railway , which based all their engineering works, as well as their company headquarters, in

850-652: The Union Pacific Railroad as construction headed west. Most faded away but some became permanent settlements. In 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

900-517: 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 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

950-572: 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

1000-456: The Swedish towns mostly influenced by railways include Alvesta as 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 ,

1050-621: The area surrounding present-day Silverton began in 1860 after a group of prospectors led by Charles Baker made their way into the San Juan Mountains searching for gold. The area was soon referred to as "Baker's Park", and the group found traces of placer gold nearby. Long before settlement, the area was regularly explored by the Anasazi , and later the Utes , who hunted and lived in the San Juans during

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1100-417: The average family size was 2.63. 20.7% of town residents were under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 39.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.5 males. The median income for a household in the town was $ 30,486, and the median income for

1150-641: 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

1200-436: The closure of Sunnyside, Silverton lost much of its tax base as the town's population dwindled to just over 500, a quarter of its peak population one hundred years earlier. The town's population, buoyed by strong summer tourism and an emerging winter economy, has since recovered. The construction of the expert-level ski area Silverton Mountain in 2002 marked the beginning of Silverton's year-round tourism. Another ski area,

1250-482: The community now depends primarily on tourism and government remediation and preservation projects. Silverton is well known because of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad , a former mine train that is now a National Historic Landmark, and internationally recognized events such as the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run . The town population was 622 at the 2020 census . Settlements in

1300-420: 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 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

1350-557: 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

1400-452: The highest being Storm Peak, at 13,487 feet. The town is less than 15 miles from seven of Colorado's 53 " fourteeners ", i.e. , mountain peaks with a summit elevation of at least 14,000 feet (4,300 meters). Silverton has an alpine subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ) with very cold, snowy winters and cool to warm summers with adequate precipitation year-round. In the novel The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson ,

1450-523: The land was still controlled by the Utes . Silverton was established shortly after the Utes ceded the region in the 1873 Brunot Agreement , and the town boomed from silver mining until the Panic of 1893 led to a collapse of the silver market, and boomed again from gold mining until the recession caused by the Panic of 1907 . The entire town is included as a federally designated National Historic Landmark District ,

1500-452: 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,

1550-487: The main setting is in Silverton. Country singer C. W. McCall recorded "The Silverton," about the Silverton and Durango Railroad, on his 1975 album Black Bear Road . Night Passage (1957) was filmed in Silverton and Durango, Colorado . Shaun White 's secret training facility for the Vancouver Olympics (2010) called "Project X" was located on Silverton Mountain. The board game Silverton by Mayfair Games

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1600-650: 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

1650-405: The population. There were 255 households, out of which 24.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.5% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.2% were non-families. 36.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06 and

1700-432: The purpose of shipping ore to Durango, became a major tourist attraction after it was featured in several popular western films. By the 1970s, with almost all mining operations in the region shuttered, the train was almost entirely operated for the purpose of tourism. Tourism continued to increase in the latter part of the 20th century, but Silverton's harsh winters and isolation made it a summer-only attraction. Following

1750-442: 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 was the first new town to be developed due to the railways, growing from a hamlet of 40 into an industrial port after

1800-708: 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

1850-599: The summer. There is also speculation that Spanish explorers and fur traders ventured into the area before Baker's 1860 expedition. After the Brunot Agreement with the Utes in 1873, which exchanged four million acres (6,200 sq mi; 16,000 km ) for the Southern Ute Indian Reservation and $ 25,000 per year, several mining camps were constructed. These would later become the communities of Howardsville , Eureka , and Silverton. Silverton

1900-575: 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 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

1950-505: The time the pandemic waned the following March, 246 people had died, accounting to more than 10% of the population. This gave Silverton the dubious honor of having the highest mortality rate for the Spanish Flu in the entire nation. On June 4, 1978, when the water from Lake Emma collapsed into Sunnyside mine, shooting out of a portal with a force that toppled a 20-ton locomotive. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as disaster occurred on

2000-656: The town and the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. In 1966, the entire town was placed on the National Register of Historic Places . These boundaries were expanded in 1997 with the addition of the Shenandoah-Dives mill and other historical structures. The area surrounding Silverton has been the scene of several well-documented disasters, many of them due to avalanches and mining accidents. Five miners perished in

2050-478: The town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km ), all of it land. Silverton is one of the highest towns in the United States, at 9,318 feet (2,840 m) above sea level. The town is located in San Juan County , the highest county in the United States, with a mean elevation of 11,240 feet (3,430 meters). Silverton sits in a flat area of the Animas River valley and is surrounded by several thirteeners ,

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2100-399: The town. The population density was 656.0 inhabitants per square mile (253.3/km ). There were 430 housing units at an average density of 531.2 units per square mile (205.1 units/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 97.36% White , 0.75% Native American , 0.38% Pacific Islander , 0.75% from other races , and 0.75% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.72% of

2150-568: 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 the neighbouring pre-existing town after the Great Western Railway moved there;

2200-479: 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 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

2250-399: 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

2300-467: 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 ,

2350-457: 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

2400-470: Was founded by mining entrepreneurs William Kearnes, Dempsey Reese, and Thomas Blair in 1874. The region boomed after George Howard and R. J. McNutt discovered the Sunnyside silver vein along Hurricane Peak. Gold was then discovered in 1882, which helped the region weather the Panic of 1893 far better than other mining communities, such as Aspen or Creede . The Sunnyside Mine would become one of Colorado's longest running and most productive mines. The mine

2450-485: Was shut down after the 1929 stock market crash , but was acquired by Standard Metals Corp. in 1959, and reopened, finding gold in 1973 with the Little Mary vein. The region's economy was dealt a devastating blow in 1992 when the mine and the corresponding Shenandoah-Dives mill, the last operating in the region, permanently closed. The closure meant the end of jobs for over one third of Silverton's workforce. The town has

2500-498: Was the municipal seat of the former Vamdrup Municipality , until 1 January 2007. Danish Air Transport has its head office in the town. This article about a location in the Region of Southern Denmark is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Railway town During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporary, " Hell on wheels " towns, made mostly of canvas tents, accompanied

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