Tag:usage=military
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 usage = military
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Specifies that a railway is a military line: tracks for military use, mainly in military areas, munitions storage areas or connections from these to the public railroad network. 
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The tag usage=military is used together with railway=* to map an industrial line: railway tracks for military use, mainly in military areas and munitions storage areas, or connections from these to the public railroad network.
This tag is most often used with railway=rail and railway=narrow_gauge.
See service=* to tag a siding, yard tracks, crossover or overtaking tracks.
Other values of usage=*:
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| usage=main | Main line, presumably heavy traffic, often double tracked and/or electrified, may be high speed. |
| usage=branch | Branch line, less traffic and lower speed than main lines, often single tracked and/or not electrified, may be constructed to lower specifications than main line. May connect a place to a mainline or serve to connect mainlines, typically a few dozen miles in length. |
| usage=industrial | Tracks in private use that serve only freight transport inside ports, industrial complexes or mining areas, and for connecting these to the public network |
| usage=test | Tracks used for testing of new vehicles or new rail transport technologies. |
| usage=tourism | Tracks for tourists, around museums, historic or "heritage" trains, often only on weekends and holidays and/or seasonally, most preserved railways (railway=preserved and railway:preserved=yes) |