By population, which of the world's towns or cities is the largest one without a railway station?

Flynn_17

Corby. In fact, it's famous for it. Well that, and the bloke who invented the trouser press. This question, I believe, was on QI some time ago. Feb 01 06, 8:10 AM

Stew54

It's claimed (in corby) that Corby is the largest town in Europe without a railway line, but that's unlikely to be true. Even within England there are places with no station that are clearly larger - Gosport for instance is roughly half as large again. Many substantial cities in Asia and Africa are not served by railways though, so the answer to this one might be a difficult and contentious one. Feb 01 06, 8:31 AM

gmackematix

Actually, it was reading about Corby's claim that made me think of this question. I happened to be reading about Corby in looking up where the recently defunct Golden Wonder were based. By the way, are you surmising Stew, or can you tell me with certainty one of these substantial African or Asian cities without a railway station? Feb 01 06, 12:31 PM

smeogalla

Thimphu capital of Bhutan population approx 30-40,000 has no train station . In fact the whole country has no trains at all. Which is interesting considering they have a series of stamps featuring trains. Feb 01 06, 10:51 PM

gmackematix

Interesting, but it doesn't beat Stew's contender, Gosport, popn 78,000 (2001 census). Feb 02 06, 9:02 PM

lanfranco

Many U.S. cities of significant size do not have passenger rail service. In my home state of Ohio, Columbus does not (though it did when I was a child), and an Amtrak map seems to indicate that San Francisco and Phoenix do not have this service. Phoenix might win, if you're not talking about freight transport only. Scroll down for and enlarge the map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak Feb 03 06, 5:55 PM