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This dimension groups transport infrastructure by whether it is still in active use, preserved or abandoned. A heritage railway, for instance, is "a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past," per Wikipedia, a status quite different from an ordinary working line. Browsing by status separates infrastructure still doing its original job from infrastructure kept only for its history.

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Era of Emergence
4000 BCE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Canal
WikipediaCanal, oldest known canals
Quote, Canal, oldest known canals
The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia c. 4000 BC, in what is now Iraq.
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