Buildings built to serve transportation infrastructure, chiefly the terminal, the building type that gives a transportation network its architectural public face. Belongs here: any named terminal or similar transportation building considered as a work of architecture. Does not belong here: the vehicles or infrastructure networks themselves, which belong to the transport atlas under ruling 631's seam, this atlas describing only the building where its architecture is the point.
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The world's first recorded railway station, for trains drawn by horses rather than engined locomotives, began passenger service in 1807. It was The Mount in Swansea, Wales, on the Oystermouth (later the Swansea and Mumbles) Railway.
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It was The Mount in Swansea, Wales, on the Oystermouth (later the Swansea and Mumbles) Railway.
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