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However, when the Trans-Siberian Railway bypassed the city in favor of the village of Novonikolayevsk ( now Novosibirsk ), development began to move south to connect with the railway.
When the gold deposits were worked out, and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed.
Difficulties in extending the railway over the lands owned by the Greenwich Hospital ( London ) led to the station being bypassed for many years.
The town, which lies 26 miles north of Perth is bypassed by the main A9 Inverness to Perth road, and has a railway station on the Highland Main Line.
The town is served by Keynsham railway station on the London-Bristol and Bristol-Southampton trunk routes and is close to the A4 road which bypassed the town in 1964.
East Grinstead town centre itself is bypassed using a disused railway cutting.
After construction of the railway line to Gympie, the coastal and river towns, being mostly ports for the early river trade, were bypassed.
The town is bypassed by the A9 and has a railway station on the Highland Main Line.
The building of the main A9 North Road and railway line to Inverness encouraged the growth of the village, though the A9 has bypassed it since the 1980s.
Quorn's role as a crossroads was lost when a standard gauge railway connection was opened between Port Pirie Junction and Port Augusta in 1937, meaning east-west trains bypassed the route Quorn.
The North Coast railway line was built between 1905 and 1932, and when completed, bypassed the Main North line and provided a quicker route up the eastern seaboard.
In addition, the railway also bypassed the town of Kingston-upon-Thames due to fears that the railway would damage the town's importance for stagecoaches.
During peak hour times on weekdays, some railway stations are bypassed to enable faster commutes.
Most likely the " railway "-known as Dozier's Way-was drawn by horses and mules in one direction, and run on gravity in the other-was not used much after the colonial government built the Cariboo Road through the Fraser River canyon, in 1864, via Ashcroft, which bypassed Seton Portage and Lillooet, and was abandoned shortly thereafter ( c. 1870 ) although its roadgrade survives today as the main local thoroughfare, Portage Road.
The construction of the Dakar Bamako railway in the early 20th century bypassed the river trade, making Kayes the center of commercial activity in the area.
However, because the construction of the railway bypassed the town, the population decreased — no new houses were built for a hundred years.
Bogarttown never grew into a large town, most likely because it was bypassed by the railway in the 1850s, unlike Newmarket.
The town is bypassed by the A12 and is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line.
The village is bypassed by the A12 and is served by Darsham railway station, which is approximately one mile away from the village centre, on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
The railway line bypassed Modbury, contributing still further to this decline.
Peterborough and Swindon became successful due to their status as railway towns ; in contrast towns such as Frome or Kendall remained small after being bypassed by main lines.
The village of Metcalfe was bypassed in the construction of railway lines, limiting its further growth.

railway and town
The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna.
The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.
The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.
The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.
It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.
There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street.
Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.
* Christchurch railway station a train station serving the town of Christchurch, Dorset, England
No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.
The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864, the original plans for the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line took the line across a bridge and into the town.
The city is served by Munich S-Bahn ( S2 ) and Deutsche Bahn via Dachau railway station located in the South of the town.
In 1847 the railway came to Emsworth with the construction of the West Coastway Line, Emsworth railway station was built to serve the town.
Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.
When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.
The consequence was that the town was separated from the lochside by railway tracks until the 1970s when the present by-pass was built, and the station was re-located to the north end.
The town lies on Highway 5 and the CN railway line, between Dauphin and Grandview, or about 250 miles NW of Winnipeg.
The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.

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