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Welcome to WikiProject Trains on the English Wikipedia! We are a group of editors who aim to streamline and co-ordinate the expansion of trains articles. If you would like to join the project, simply add your name to the list of participants. Please browse our resources at your leisure; we hope you find them useful.

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Goals

• To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of trains in the English language.
• To improve coverage of trains by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
• To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to trains in Wikipedia.

Scope 

The project generally considers any article related to historical or contemporary trains affairs to be within its scope. A more detailed description of the scope, and our primary areas of focus within it, may be found in the section on project scope.

Structure

The project aims solely to assist the authoring of reliable and accurate trains articles in accordance with our Goals [above]. Internally, the project had developed several structural features to assist in the management of our workload:

• Task forces: informal groups for collaboration on specific trains topics.
• Departments: areas of the project which streamline work—such as article review and outside opinions—that "supports" the main body of article writers.

General discussion relating to this project takes place on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains; suggestions or comments are welcome there.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Project organization 2.1 Child WikiProjects 2.2 Similar Wikiprojects 2.3 Members 2.4 Task forces 2.5 Coordination 3 Resources 3.1 Editing 3.2 Article quality 4 Showcase 4.1 Featured articles 4.2 Former featured articles 4.3 Featured article candidates 4.4 Good articles 5 Barnstar 6 Article alerts

[edit] Scope

Shortcut: WP:RR#SCOPE

The project is concerned primarily with train and railroad/railway subjects, and considers any article relating to those topics to be within its scope.

By extension, the scope of the project includes—but is not limited to—the following:

1. Train—including passenger, metro, light rail, goods, and locomotive—units.
2. Railway stations and halts.
3. Railway routes and lines.
4. Railroad operators.
5. Manufacturers of train units and of railroad apparatus.
6. Organisations whose main business is with railroads.

Highlights of this project's output are listed on Portal:Trains

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Child WikiProjects WikiProject Trains in Japan WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject Rapid transit WikiProject London Transport Wikipedia:WikiProject NZR Wikipedia:WikiProject Railways in India

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects WikiProject Aircraft WikiProject Automobiles WikiProject Stations WikiProject Streetcars Wikiproject UK Trams WikiProject Transport in Scotland

[edit] Members

The current list of project participants is quite large and is located on the /Members page. You may add yourself to this list if you want.

[edit] Task forces

Shortcut: WP:RR#TF

Task forces are informal collaboration groups of WikiProject Trains members focusing on certain subtopics of rail transport. The current task forces—and their respective focus and remit—include:

Task Force	Scope and focus
Article maintenance task force	Performing mundane tasks such as bypassing disambigs and monitoring the list of articles to write.
Assessment request backlog elimination drive	To assess articles which are requested.
By country series task force	Articles in the Rail transport by country and History of rail transport by country series.
Categories task force	Standardize the categories under Cat:Rail transport into a comprehensive system of categories.
Images task force	Create and locate suitable images for use on rail transport articles and replace fair use images with free images where available and appropriate.
Locomotives task force	Articles about locomotives throughout history, worldwide.
Maps task force	Create and maintain standardized maps of railroad routes for rail transport articles.
Operations task force	Articles about rail transport operations with particular attention to organization and inter-system generalization.
Passenger trains task force	Articles about passenger trains and passenger train equipment.
Portal task force	Maintenance and content updates of Portal:Trains.
Rail transport modelling task force	Articles related to rail transport modelling.
Timelines task force	Articles in Category:Rail transport timelines and the "Selected anniversaries" and "Trains news" sections of Portal:Trains

[edit] Coordination

The coordination of the project is undertaken in accordance with Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Strategy.

• /Article templates - templates that can be used on rail transport articles.
• /Assessment - Rating rail transport articles based on a standard Wikipedia-wide scale as part of the Version 1.0 efforts.
• /Peer review - Reviewing articles by project members; such a review could be part of the path toward Featured article status.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Editing

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo: articles identified as needing attention and improvement.
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Railroads.
• Article templates
• Partial transcriptions of Interstate Commerce Commission valuation reports, with information about many old U.S. railroads

[edit] Article quality

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Article templates.
• To mark an article for assessment add {{TrainsWikiProject|class=|importance=}} to the article's talk page.

[edit] Showcase

The following is a listing of articles (and other types of content) within the scope of the project that have been noted and recognized for their outstanding quality. Project members may peruse these at their leisure: they all serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate.

[edit] Featured articles

Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. In alphabetical order:

• BC Rail - front page feature October 4, 2005
• Căile Ferate Române - front page feature July 22, 2005
• Canadian Pacific Railway - front page feature April 23, 2005
• Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
• Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway
• City and South London Railway
• Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, Sydney
• Edgar Speyer - front page feature March 1, 2009
• Franklin B. Gowen (president of the Reading Railroad)
• Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
• Hellingly Hospital Railway - front page feature March 25, 2009
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel - front page feature March 23, 2006
• John Bull (locomotive) - front page feature September 15, 2008
• LSWR N15 class
• Manila Light Rail Transit System - front page feature June 30, 2006
• Manila Metro Rail Transit System - front page feature December 18, 2006
• Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) - front page feature February 11, 2006
• MTR - front page feature June 11, 2005
• Pioneer Zephyr - front page feature March 23, 2005
• Rail transport in India - front page feature August 16, 2007
• Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
• Royal Blue (B&O train) - front page feature May 15, 2008
• SkyTrain (Vancouver)
• SR Merchant Navy Class - Portal:Trains selected article, week 35, 2007
• SR West Country and Battle of Britain Classes
• Talyllyn Railway
• Timeline of the London Underground (Featured List)
• List of London Underground stations (Featured List)
• List of West Midlands railway stations (Featured List)
• List of railway stations in Greater Manchester (Featured List)
• List of Vancouver SkyTrain stations (Featured List)
• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations (Featured List)
• List of St. Louis MetroLink stations (Featured List)

[edit] Former featured articles

These articles were at one time Featured but no longer are. The rationale behind removing Featured status from these articles will be given or linked to on the article's respective talk page. Project members may wish to use this list to identify articles that may require less workload in order to pull up to Featured status and which have a ready-made (by means of the Featured article candidate discussion and of the Featured article review discussion respectively) source of feedback on possible strengths and possible weaknesses.

In alphabetical order:

• Indian Railways - front page feature October 16, 2005
• London Underground: main page feature, June 21, 2004
• Wigwag (railroad): main page feature, July 5, 2004; delisted on March 26, 2007.
• TGV: main page feature, January 15, 2006; delisted on May 9, 2008.
• William N. Page (co founder of the Virginian Railway)

[edit] Featured article candidates

Current candidates 

These pages (in alphabetical order) are currently candidates for Featured Article status. Members are encouraged to participate in the discussions through offering support, opposition, or critical comments as needed; through remedying the concerns of editors who have already commented in the discussion; and through improving the candidate article where possible.

There are currently no Featured article candidates which fall within this project's scope.

Past candidates 

These articles were nominated for Featured Article status, but all the objections given were not resolved before the articles were removed from the current candidates page. These articles have the potential of becoming featured articles; please review the objections and improve them so they can be promoted to featured status.

• Amtrak (nomination)
• Bay Area Rapid Transit (nomination)
• Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (nomination)
• Fox River Grove level crossing accident (nomination)
• Jordanhill railway station (nomination)
• KCR East Rail (nomination)
• Maglev train (nomination)
• New York City Subway nomenclature (nomination)
• Passenger car (rail) (nomination)
• Tram (nomination)
• Ulster and Delaware Railroad (nomination)
• Virginian Railway (nomination)
• Washington Metro (nomination)

[edit] Good articles

Good articles are, whilst not as rigourously reviewed as Featured content and as A-Class articles, considered to be a decent and satisfactory treatment of a topic; they pass through a simplistic pan-English Wikipedia review process before being designated as "GAs." A number of these articles would benefit greatly from wording improvements, further referencing, or expansions in coverage; project members may well wish to utilise this list to improve articles that fall within our scope.

# 2009 Washington Metro train collision A Airport Express Train Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad Anglesey Central Railway Asker Line B Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Ball Park (UTA station) Bay Area Rapid Transit Bergen Line Berlin Stadtbahn Big Four Bridge BR Standard Class 6 BR Standard Class 7 BR Standard Class 8 Bristol Temple Meads railway station British Rail Class 47 C California Southern Railroad Capitol Limited (B&O) Cargolink Charles Pearson Copenhagen Metro Cyrus K. Holliday D Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad E Eurostar Everard Calthrop F Flekkefjord Line Flekkefjord Station Forskningsparken (station) Forth Bridge (railway) G Gardermoen Line GMB Class 71 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Grand Central Station (Chicago) Grand Crimean Central Railway Grayrigg derailment Great Notch (NJT station) Gullfisk

H Hamm (Westfalen) railway station Hatfield Government Center (MAX station) High Speed 1 I J Jordanhill railway station K Kinzua Bridge L LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3 London Paddington station LSWR 415 class LSWR M7 Class Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Lysaker Station M Maglev (transport) Meråker Line Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Metrorail (Washington, D.C.) Mortensrud (station) Mussel Slough Tragedy MX3000 N Narrows Bridge (Perth) New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway NSB Class 66 NSB Class 93 NSB Di 3 NSB El 17 NSB Gjøvikbanen Nydalen (station) O Ofotbanen Oslo Airport Station Oslo Metro Oslo Metro rolling stock P Philippine National Railways Preston railway station Pulaski (CTA Orange Line)

R Rail transport in Puerto Rico Rail transport in the Vatican City Rail transport in Victoria Railway stations in Cromer Rapid transit Refrigerator car Ringerike Line Ring Line Rjukan Line S Sandefjord Airport Station Scott Special SECR K and SR K1 classes Sinsen (station) SL79 SL95 SR N Class SR N15X class SR Class Q SR Class Q1 SR Class V SR Leader Class SR Lord Nelson Class SR U Class Stock car (rail) Storo (station) Streetcars in Washington, D.C. T T1000 T2000 Thomas Brassey Timetoget Timothy Blackstone Trams in Adelaide Transportation in New York City Trondheim Airport Station Trondheim Central Station Troop sleeper Tyne and Wear Metro U W Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Winston Tunnel Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line

[edit] Barnstar

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[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 8 Jan 2010 – PROD tag removed from Railway switching networks (talk).
• 7 Jan 2010 – Coal Yard Miniature Railway (talk) proposed for deletion by Pianoplonkers.
• 27 Dec 2009 – PROD tag removed from Jefferson and Cypress Bayou Railway (talk).

Articles for deletion

• 25 Dec 2009 – List of British Railways steam locomotives as of 31 December 1967 (talk) nominated for deletion by Koavf; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 28 Dec 2009 – Railpage Australia (talk) is not promoted.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (talk) is nominated by DavidCane.

Featured article reviews

• 5 Nov 2009 – Manila Light Rail Transit System (talk) is nominated by Arsenikk.

Featured list candidates

• 27 Dec 2009 – List of DART Light Rail stations (talk) is nominated by Patriarca12.
• 20 Dec 2009 – List of Copenhagen Metro stations (talk) is nominated by Arsenikk.

Good article nominations

• 5 Jan 2010 – Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Patriarca12.
• 27 Dec 2009 – Gevingåsen Tunnel (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk.
• 23 Dec 2009 – Romerike Tunnel (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk.
• 22 Dec 2009 – Follo Line (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk.
• 19 Dec 2009 – Rodeløkka Line (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk.
• 11 Dec 2009 – Road to Rhode Island (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Pedro thy master.
• 7 Dec 2009 – British Rail Class 180 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk; see discussion.

Peer review

• 10 Dec 2009 – Peer review opened for SECR K and SR K1 classes (talk) by Bulleid Pacific.

Requested moves

• 8 Jan 2010 – TGV (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 30 Dec 2009 – Lintz Green railway station (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 28 Dec 2009 – Edmonton (Via Rail station) (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 28 Dec 2009 – Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 26 Dec 2009 – Henley Branch Line (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

In the news

• 27 Dec 2009 – A news event involving Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway (talk) appeared on the main page.

Did you know

• 7 Jan 2010 – A fact from Anacostia (Washington Metro) (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 7 Jan 2010 – A fact from HMS Arpha (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 6 Jan 2010 – A fact from Green Line (Washington Metro) (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 4 Jan 2010 – A fact from List of DART Light Rail stations (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 31 Dec 2009 – A fact from North Coast Hiawatha (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 29 Dec 2009 – A fact from Computer-controlled Vehicle System (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre.
• 28 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out
• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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