Most of the railway has now gone, but Lelydorp survives and is now the capital of Wanica District.
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In the city of Amsterdam "Cornelis Lelylaan", a major thoroughfare, is named after him and Amsterdam Lelylaan, one of the city's main railway stations, is sited on this road.
Cornelis Lely, Dutch engineer and statesman, who designed and realised by law the Zuiderzee Works that made the Zuiderzee into the lake IJsselmeer
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Lelystad, town in the Netherlands, named after Cornelis Lely