Wikipedia:Route diagram template

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For a table of the pictograms available for railway routemaps, see Wikipedia:Route diagram template/Catalog of pictograms.

The Route diagram template is a series of templates originating from the German Wikipedia. The goal of the templates is to provide a uniform layout for route-map infoboxes for railway lines, waterways and other modes of transport, currently with the (German) focus on German railway lines. It is similar to the Autobahnbox series of templates.

Please note that this page is currently a translation in progress, and some sections are not translated from the original German yet.

[edit] Templates

Template:Railway line header	: Formatting for master table
Template:Railway line header (center)	: Formatting for master table in centre of page (intended for station diagrams, e.g. Carlisle railway station)
Template:Infobox UK railway	: Version of Template:Infobox rail that can be embedded at the beginning of a route map. For use with route diagrams of historical railways.
Template:BS-header	: Table header (white on red)
Template:UKrail-header	: Table header (variable header background colour, black text)
Template:UKrail-header2	: Table header (variable header background colour, white text)
Template:BS-daten	: Infobox line data
Template:BS-Infobox	: Stripped down Infobox line data in English
Template:BS-table	: Table header with link to legend
Template:BS-table1	: Table header w/o legend
Template:BS	: Table row existing railway
Template:BS2	: Table row with two icons
Template:BS3	: Table row with three icons
Template:BS4	: Table row with four icons
Template:BS5	: Table row with five icons
Template:BSkm	: Mini table (for kilometrage changes)

The obsolete Template:BSe for former railways has now been deleted. One of the above templates will provide the same functionality.

[edit] Template:BS-daten

Parameters of Template:BS-daten:

{{BS-daten
|DE-KBS=
|STRECKENNR=
|LÄNGE=
|SPURWEITE=
|STROMG=
|STROMW=
|ZAHNSTANGE=
|NEIGUNGA=
|NEIGUNG=
|RADIUS=
|V-MAX=
|BILDPFAD_KARTE=
|PIXEL_KARTE=
}}

Further explanation of the parameters is provided at the template's page.

[edit] Template:BS

Usage: {{BS|ID|km|Name|Note}} with the following parameters

ID: identifies the pictogram, see Pictogram Matrix below

km: distance along the line, in kilometres

Name: Name of infrastructure

Note: will be written in small print

Names and notes may contain wikilinks. Any of the fields km, Name and Note may also be empty. If the ID is prefixed with an x, this denotes that parts of the infrastructure have been closed (i.e. a former through station converted to a terminal). If the ID is prefixed with a t, parts of the infrastructure are situated in a tunnel.

[edit] Template:BSe

Now deleted. Use Template:BS instead. The code {{BS|eID ... results in the same output as {{BSe|ID .... However, remember that not every symbol with a preceding 'e' may be available, so you may need to get a symbol created.

[edit] Templates: BS2, BS3, BS4 and BS5

Universal templates for a railwaystrip with two, three, four or five symbols side by side. This can be used for more complicated railway tracks. Example: de:Hasseler Tunnel. Every line shall contain two, three, four or five IDs. When an empty space is wanted, use the ID leer. This is German and means 'empty'. But you 'll find it more convenient to leave the space empty.

These templates require that the letters 'e', 'x' and 'ex' are written before the ID, not after BS.

Example BS: {{BSe|BHF|2,0|Name of town|remark}}
becomes in BS2: {{BS2|eBHF|leer|2,0|Name of town|remark}}

Usage: {{BS2|ID|ID|km|Name|Note|Note}} is similar to {{BS3|ID|ID|ID|km|Name|Note|Note}}.

Parameters for BS2:

Parameter1: ID of the first pictogram (or 'leer') (defaults to 'leer' if omitted)
Parameter2: ID of the second pictogram (or 'leer') (defaults to 'leer' if omitted)
Parameter3: distance
Parameter4: Text
Parameter5: Note
Parameter6: Right-aligned note

(BS3, BS4 and BS5 require a further 1, 2 or 3 parameters respectively, inserted after Parameter2)

The following parameters are optional:

Keyword parameter PX: Width of the strip (for example PX=50px). Default is 20px.
Keyword parameter HI: CSS Class for "Highlight", to highlight certain parts of the indicated distance. For example see de:Seetalbahn

[edit] Template:BSkm

Usage: {{BSkm{{!}}km1{{!}}km2}}. This template can be used in place of the parameter 'km', when two distances must be shown together, for example when a new range of distances starts. (The unusual {{!}} is needed because Wikisyntax uses | to separate both parameters and parts of a table.)

[edit] Example

Eurostar route map

Legend

0:00

St. Pancras International

Stratford International

(opening 2010)

0:15

Ebbsfleet International

Fawkham Junction

0:30

Ashford International

GB-F border (Channel Tunnel)

0:54

Calais-Fréthun

1:20

Lille-Europe

France-Belgium border