Why are railtracks correlated with the creation of cities?

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I’m studying geography and can’t quite grasp the correlation between railtracks and the creation of cities. I get that railtracks can transport natural resources, but I don’t see the connection.

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Railways create a source of communication with the rest of the world at the time of the first railways roads were in poor condition and expensive to move goods along a railway could transport anything not just natural resources, it could be cloth and clothes, or pottery, or pots and pans etc. Along the side of the tracks telegraph wires were laid enabling messages to be sent, people could also travel to establish a new home in the new city making the stuff in the new city.

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