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colonization railway Hist. 
a railway line built to facilitate the colonizing of unsettled areas; also, the company building or operating such a line.
- 1883 A meeting of the share holders of the . . . Colonization Railway was held in Montreal on Wednesday.
- 1933 The superintendent . . . lent his aid in handling traffic, this being fundamentally a colonization railway.
- 1883 A meeting of the share holders of the . . . Colonization Railway was held in Montreal on Wednesday.