Standing status records whether a building still exists or was lost. The original Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was "destroyed by fire in 1936," Wikipedia notes, after having already been moved from Hyde Park. This dimension separates buildings a visitor could still walk through from those that survive only in record.
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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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