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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to the railways of the United Kingdom. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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WikiProject on UK Railways

[edit] Scope

The aim of this Wikiproject is to coordinate the huge number of articles relating to railways and rail transport in its different forms within the United Kingdom. It is hoped to produce a more structured and clearer arrangement for users. Its scope includes the history of the railways of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as the current situation covering everything from the architecture, companies and structure, passengers, plans for the future as well as the trains themselves. Plus hopefully it will help keep articles up to date in the changing industry we have today.

This Wikiproject was started on 6th April 2006 and needs lots of work doing so if you can help out please do! Everyone is welcome to join and help out no matter how much you know about railways, just add your name below and check back here to see what's going on.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Trains.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

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[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

[edit] Important UK railway articles

Please add key UK railway articles:

[edit] Projects

Please add any project you think we need doing.

  • Find out just what things there are out there already and how its organised: is it, in fact, organised at all?
  • Consider a method of recording the closed stations on the railways. The present system does not allow them to be included
Could you explain more? What problem are you addressing with this project? Great Western Main line shows numerous closed stations, as does List of closed railway stations in Britain. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
IMHO when you go via an info box from station A to station B via closed station Z, you can't obviously include it as the next station, you have to mention it in the line article text or each neighbouring station's text. Pickle 16:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Consider nomenclature: how to best describe a particular stretch of railway (SOR). Words such as line, route can be confusing when the manner in which services (ie the trains running over the tracks, and given names by the TOCs) also include them. The query (see talk) about the Great Northern Route is a case in point, as it describes a route as "a combination of lines" (surely not?). The North Downs Line is another, where the services make use of a combination of SOR (cp Brighton Main Line). Is it important to describe in geographical terms each and every SOR, saying that XX Line uses all or part of each one, or is using the TOC name sufficient?
  • Are we looking to add historical details to both the SOR and each station article along it? At present a large proportion of station articles appear only to say who is running the services and give the timetable. I guess it is just a question of trying to produce a stock article, without adding much more detail Peter Shearan 06:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I have created articles on the subway stations of Glasgow but they need significant expansion, as well as links from other sites. Simply south 21:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Anyone wanting to expand upon the stations of the Severn Valley Line (both the open and dismantled sections) is welcome to improve/enhance the stuff I've submitted.--7severn7 17:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Adding articles related to viaducts and bridges of the UK railways

[edit] Tasks

Please add any tasks you think we need doing.

  • Agree a naming convention for UK rail transport stations - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK stations)
  • Create articles for all the missing railway stations (albeit based on current naming convention). How to include closed stations?
  • Standardise station listing pages which are currently in two different styles: Category:Lists of railway stations; and Category:Railway stations in England et al. Both list only those stations still open.
  • Update station articles for new (post 1st April) operators, e.g. South Eastern Trains to Southeastern (Done ? August 2006)
  • Transfer UK rail photographs uploaded to the English Wikipeida with a free license to Wikimedia Commons - Commons:Category:Railways of Great Britain is the root category for UK railways on Commons (GB/UK naming is currently a mess on Commons)
  • Current usage stats are on the 2002 - 2003 period at each station. These need to be updated to the 2004 - 2005 period to show current trends. However, it is possible to leave to 2002-2003 usage and add the new usage underneath to show how much it has changed if needed.
  • Create a list of all the TOCS in the UK, and their primary operating areas, aswell as maybe the main class of locomotive/unit used.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Categories

The following (necessarily incomplete) list shows the majority of categories relevant to this WikiProject.

  • Category names in bold highlight major subject areas (to aid list navigation)
  • Indented bullets show subcategories within a parent category
  • Large sub-category sets (eg 'xxx by county') are summarised to avoid swamping the list
  • Sub-categories belonging to multiple parents (from this list) are shown once, under the 'most appropriate' parent
  • Project members are encouraged to add omissions to the list

[edit] Top-level parent categories

The following high-level categories are generally not used for individual articles as more appropriate subcategories can be found within them:

[edit] Railway lines, stations and geography

These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in Great Britain:

[edit] Railway companies

These are subcategories of Category:Railway companies of the United Kingdom:

These are categories from other areas that have also been used by articles within the scope of this project:

[edit] Locomotives and rolling stock

These are subcategories of Category:Locomotives. Most are also subcategories of the appropriate comapny categories listed above.

These are subcategories of Category:Rolling stock:

[edit] Heritage railways

These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in Great Britain:

These are subcategories of Category:Railway stations in England:

[edit] Other categories

These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport:

These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in Great Britain:

These are categories from other areas that have also been used by articles within the scope of this project:

[edit] Templates

[edit] Line navigation templates

[edit] Station infoboxes

See also Category:Rail transport infobox templates

  • {{Infobox UK station}}
    • Mandatory parameters: | name= | manager= [[]] | locale = [[]] | borough= [[]] | platforms =
    • Optional parameters: | image = [[Image: |300px]] | caption= | owner= [[]] | code= | pte= [[]] | zone= | other_name=
    • Statistic parameters: | usage0405= or | lowusage0405= to include 2002/03 statistics years use either | usage0203= or | lowusage0203=
    • Events parameters: | years= | events= Additional events can be added, e.g. | years1= | events1= up to | years9= | events9=
Enter the station's name, the operator as manager, town as locale, local authority as borough, and the number of platforms in use. Optional fields allow an image and caption, owner, National Rail Enquiries three-letter code, pte and fare zone, and an other name, e.g. for bi-lingual station names. Passenger numbers can be expressed as lowusage where the number is less than 100,000, or usage where greater in millions to three decimal places. For events, the parameter years is the date and events the details. For full information see Template talk:Infobox UK station, where you will also find links to the usage statistics.

Alternative infoboxes:

[edit] Station navigation boxes

See also Category:Rail transport-related navigational boxes

[edit] Route information

Please read discussion now going on suggesting that Wikipedia is NOT a timetable - see Talk page

  • Start templates
    • {{rail start}} start of route information box for national rail. Headings for preceding and following station and a link to national rail
    • {{start TWM box}} start of route information box for Tyne and Wear Metro. Headings for preceding and following station and a link to Tyne and Wear Metro
    • {{Disused Rail Start}} start of disused route information. Heading for preceding and following station and a link to the disused rail category
    • {{Historical Rail Start}} start of information of the Original Line info. Heading for preceding and following station.
  • Line templates Next / previous are the stations served on either side; route is the company and/or route, col is the colour of the dividing columns (see Template talk:Rail line if in doubt). For Historical Lines in Scotland, the colour corresponds to that relating to the pre-1923 company as given in WPTIS Talk Page. The parameter line is used for LUL lines. Where there is more than one route, previous1 is the stations on the first route, previous2 is on the second route, etc.
    • {{rail line}} Details of the rail line stopping at the station. Parameters: | previous= | next= | route= | col=
    • {{Rail line two to one}} as above where two routes join. Parameters: | previous1= | previous2= | next= | route1= | route2= | col=
    • {{Rail line one to two}} As above where two routes diverge. Parameters: | previous= | next1= | next2= | route1= | route2= | col=
    • {{TWM line}} Details of the Tyne and Wear Metro line stopping at the station. Parameters: | previous= | line= | next=
    • {{TWM two lines}} Parameters: | previous= | line1= | line2= | next
  • Insert templates Separate sections where there is more than one mode at station.
  • End templates
    • {{end box}} Finishes the box off after one or more line templates.
  • Generic templates
    • {{s-start}} start of route information box
    • {{s-rail}} heading for a mode of transport
    • {{s-line}} details of the rail line stopping at the station

[edit] Railway company, lines, etc. infoboxes

See also Category:Rail transport infobox templates

  • {{Heritage Railway}}
    • Mandatory parameters: | name= | locale= [[]] | terminus= | linename= | originalgauge= | operator= | stations= | preserved gauge= | originalopen= | closed=
    • Optional general parameters: | image=[[]] | caption= | map= | builtby=
    • Optional preservation parameters: | owned= | era= | stageyears= | years= | events= up to | years9= | events9=
Enter the railway's name, its country as locale and its terminus. The original operator as linename and originalgauge. The current operator, stations, length and preservedgauge. Events are originalopen and closed with optional preservation events as years1 and events1, etc. Note the map parameter only needs the file name, not the Image: or size restrictions.
  • {{Infobox rail}}
    • Mandatory parameters: | railroad_name= | locale = | gauge= | hq_city=
    • Optional parameters: | logo_filename= | system_map= | map_caption= | marks= | start_year= | end_year= | successor_line= | length=
Enter the railroad_name, the country as locale, headquarters as hq_city and gauge. The optional marks is for initials carried on rolling stock to identify the owner. The logo and map parameters only need the file name, not the Image: or size restrictions.

[edit] Railway company and line navigation boxes

See also Category:Rail transport-related navigational boxes

[edit] Locomotive and stock infoboxes

See also Category:Rail transport infobox templates

[edit] Locomotive and stock navigation boxes

See also Category:Rail transport-related navigational boxes

[edit] Track gauges

See also Category:Rail transport gauge templates

alternatively for modern lines use {{standard gauge}} = 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in)
  • {{7ft}} = 7 ft 0¼ in (2140 mm)


[edit] Stub templates

[edit] Project templates

For the user template here is a trial version. It can be found at {{User UKRail}}

This user is a member of WikiProject UK Railways




For project banners, use the WP:Trains WikiProject banner {{TWP}} but add UK=yes in the code in articles applicable.

[edit] Lists

Please add all UK railway related lists here.

See also Category:British railway-related lists

Railway lines

Railway stations

Railway companies

Locomotives and rolling stock

Heritage railways

Other lists

[edit] Articles

Not sure how to structure this yet, any suggestions?

[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Railroads

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] UK Railways Meetups

[edit] Usage

Many stations around the UK need to have usage added along with the normal infobox template. The station figures for annual entry\exit for:

It should be noted that these figures are not perfect. Also, "lowexits" should only be applied to figures less than 100,000 unless rounded up to this figure.

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