This dimension credits whoever first put a new kind of transport infrastructure into working use. A train station, Wikipedia notes, "generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing such ancillary services as ticket sales, waiting rooms, and baggage/freight service," a shape a small number of early builders established before it became the norm. Browsing by pioneer highlights the person who proved a design worked before it was copied everywhere.
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1. Wikipedia: Rail transport
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evidence indicates that a 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos paved trackway transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece from around 600 BC.
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