Born in the Netherlands in 1976. As a teenager, I was a volunteer on one of the first Dutch narrow gauge railway preservation initiatives, the Pony- en Motortram 't Joppe. The latter Dutch Wikipedia article was my first Wikipedia contribution ever, as an anonymous user.
I started on the English Wikipedia on 5 November 2011 with creating the Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa article, which I consider my magnum opus.
I have a great interest in narrow gauge railways, especially the Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways.
Apart from contributing to the WikiProject Trains I use Wikipedia for my other interests like geopolitics, personal development and history.
Overview of my Wikipedia contributions edit
Articles created from scratch edit
- Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa
- Burma Mines Railway
- Patons Country Narrow Gauge Railway
- Thomas Hall (railway engineer)
- Umzinto – Donnybrook narrow gauge railway
Articles translated from other wikis edit
(predominantly "summarized" translations)
- Ferrocarril Económico Correntino (Spanish)
- Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn (German)
- Jardin d'Acclimatation railway (French)
- Mayumbe line (French)
- Putagán—Colbún railway (Spanish)
- Round House (Nunspeet, Netherlands) (Dutch)
- South Western Railway (South Africa) (German)
- Southern Province Railway (German)
- Swakopmund–Windhoek line (German)
- Vicicongo line (German)
The Narrow Gauge Railways by Country Project edit
When I first discovered the narrow gauge railway aricle, the "Narrow gauge railways by country" section had grown extremely large, containing over 100,000 bytes ([1]). From 28 July 2013 I started forking many countries into their own respective articles and expanded its contents:
- Narrow gauge railways in Austria
- Narrow gauge railways in Croatia
- Narrow gauge railways in Denmark
- Narrow gauge railways in Estonia
- Narrow gauge railways in Finland
- Narrow gauge railways in Hungary
- Narrow gauge railways in Latvia
- Narrow gauge railways in Lithuania
- Narrow gauge railways in Norway
- Narrow gauge railways in Poland
- Narrow gauge railways in Russia
- Narrow gauge railways in Sweden
- Narrow gauge railways in Ukraine
I moved the remainder in the narrow gauge railways by continent articles and created the Navbox Narrow gauge railways by continent:
- Narrow gauge railways in Africa
- Narrow gauge railways in Asia
- Narrow gauge railways in Europe
- Narrow gauge railways in North America
- Narrow gauge railways in Oceania
- Narrow gauge railways in South America
The narrow gauge railway article was now reduced to less than 20,000 bytes. Then I continued to create narrow gauge railways by country articles:
- Narrow gauge railways in Albania
- Narrow gauge railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Narrow gauge railways in Cyprus
- Narrow gauge railways in France
- Narrow gauge railways in Germany
- Narrow gauge railways in Italy
- Narrow gauge railways in Kazakhstan
- Narrow gauge railways in Luxembourg
- Narrow gauge railways in Serbia
- Narrow gauge railways in Slovenia
- Narrow gauge railways in Spain
- Narrow gauge railways in the Netherlands
- Narrow gauge railways in Turkey
Other edit
Forked from Three foot six inch gauge railways and Category:2 ft 6 in gauge railways:
- Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United States
- Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United Kingdom
Forked from Three foot gauge railways and Category:3 ft gauge railways (Most of its content was contributed by User:Jackdude):
Started from list of track gauges and Category:600 mm gauge railways / Category:2 ft gauge railways, much research on the internet and contributions of other editors:
- Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways with subsequent forks:
Forked from list of track gauges and Category:750 mm gauge railways / Category:900 mm gauge railways:
From History of rail transport in Morocco:
- Narrow gauge railways in former French Morocco with major copy-edit
- Narrow gauge railways in former Spanish Morocco with major copy-edit
From Kunming–Hai Phong Railway: