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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
600 BCE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Rail transport
WikipediaRail transport, Diolkos trackway, Railways and Rail Transit Infrastructure subcategory
Quote, Rail transport, Diolkos trackway, Railways and Rail Transit Infrastructure subcategory
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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