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List of EuroCity services

I've created this article, based on the list that was on the EuroCity pages, to try and make it more informative and current. It's a work in progress, so it's still incomplete and a bit messy - any contributions to completing the page would be welcome. I noticed that a number of people are creating new articles for specific TEE/EC services, so this ties neatly into that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArtVandelay13 (talk • contribs) 16:58, 6 March 2013

Lists of rail accidents

I've removed all unreferenced items from the List of rail accidents (before 1880). I tagged all but one item as far back as September 2010, the other item was tagged in April 2011. All removed items have been copied to the talk page, so the information hasn't been lost. They can be re-added once references have been found. This shouldn't be hard, as railway accidents were often reported in contemporary newspapers. I give fair warning that I intend to treat all other lists of rail accidents linked from Lists of rail accidents in a similar manner. Mjroots (talk) 21:07, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

All lists have now been culled of completely unreferenced entries. These have been placed on the relevant talk page to enable research and referencing. Some culled entries may not be notable enough for inclusion, but that is a different issue. Mjroots (talk) 08:59, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I've given the List of rail accidents (before 1880) a going over. IMHO, these lists are of the type that would benefit from the use of flagicons, but consensus is against them. Therefore I've come up with a solution to identifying the country where the accident took place. Your comments are invited before I rework other lists. Feel free to work on the lists yourself . Mjroots (talk) 08:50, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

20-20 Vision - Talyllyn Railway

Hi all. We are asking around 20 wikis to create an article on Talyllyn Railway in their own language, and I wonder if we could have your help to inspire wikiprojects similar to this one on other language wikis? The railway is one of 20 articles on a little multilingual project called The 20-20 Vision of Wales Challenge. Or, if you speak other languages then please help by writing about Talyllyn. Thanks all; My Talk Page is quite useful if you need more info. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Naming convention for railway stations in India

As like for railway stations in UK and Poland, is there any naming convention exist for railway stations in India? One common guideline followed was "XXXXX railway station", i.e., Name of the railway station suffixed by "railway station" in lower caps. What about junction stations in India? Earlier there was a similar issue raised at India notice board and ended without a clear consensus, which resulted in existence of ambiguity of such pages. Articles on junction stations in India either has "XXXXX railway station" or "XXXXX Junction railway station"? In such cases, while editing or moving difference of opinion erupts between article creators of primary/major contributor of the article, as there exist no specific guideline(s) on relevant project page. How should they be named? If any guideline framed it'll helpful. --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)^(Support) 20:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

You already posted this at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (stations)‎#Naming convention for railway stations in India; per WP:MULTI, please can we discuss in one place? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:20, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Unidentified diesel locomotive issues

Since User:Michael Barera narrowed down a category on one of my images from "Unidentified locomotives" to "Unidentified diesel locomotives," it made me want to search for others.

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  "XT3?" Looks fairly identifiable to me.
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  Same one.

There are other trains with number that would seem to make them easy to identify. I also saw three others with bad names from Fiji that I'm considering renaming. Can anybody help with these? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

The little badge on the front doesn't show "XT3" but "ХТЗ" - those are Cyrillic letters, Х Т З, and the Russian Wikipedia has a (redirected) page of that name, ru:ХТЗ, where we find that they are the initials of the first three words of "Харьковский тракторный завод имени Серго Орджоникидзе" or "Харьковский тракторный завод им. Серго Орджоникидзе". --Redrose64 (talk) 19:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh, and the first two syllables of "тракторный" - i.e. "трактор" - is pronounced similarly to "tractor"; I'm sure it has the same meaning. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:12, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Aha, so c:Category:Kharkiv Tractor Plant is one place to put them. The Ukrainian Wikipedia also has a (redirected) page, uk:ХТЗ, which is larger than the Russian one. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:22, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Awesome! I created Category:Unidentified diesel locomotives while creating the manufacturer-specific Category:Unidentified EMD diesel locomotives, which I created in part as a place to put eight photographs taken in the 1960s by my father and grandfather. If anyone could identify any of these eight locomotives (especially the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad E-units that are tantalizingly close to being easily identifiable), I would really appreciate it. Locations, railroads, dates (months and years, save for one "circa"), and even some specific trains are known, so hopefully these clues might help. Once again, I would really, really appreciate any identifications that can be made. Thanks! Michael Barera (talk) 20:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Good for you. I can't identify that many of them, but some of them look vaguely familiar. In the meantime, I tagged two of those images for renaming, both of which are in Rail transport in Fiji, one of which was renamed, although one of them is an old DYK image, so I hope the redirect for this one doesn't cause any glitches there. That'll give me just one more to go. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 21:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Photo opportunity in Philadelphia

Apparently the first of the new Viewliner baggage cars is parked at the Race Street Yard adjacent to 30th Street Station. No idea how much longer it's going to be there. If anyone's in the Philadelphia area it'd be a nice picture to have. Mackensen (talk) 02:13, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Crap! Why is the good stuff so often in places I can never be? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 02:55, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

South Africa streetcars: double-decked and on tracks?

I recently saw a picture book of South Africa c. 1960. It clearly had double decked city transport, and rail tracked vehicles doing that. The livery showed    below half and    top half. Any wikilinks? -DePiep (talk) 23:14, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Double-deck tramcars were quite normal for Great Britain back in the days before everybody except Blackpool got rid of them. Blackpool still run a few of their old double-deckers - the "Balloon" cars of 1934/35 (pic). --Redrose64 (talk) 23:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh yes. Have a look at the article for the National Tramway Museum. Britmax (talk) 23:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

From what I've seen, Hong Kong seems to have more of them. In fact I was always under the impression they got most of them from their former colonizers. As for South Africa, didn't they use the second deck to segregate non-white commuters? I remember reading "Horsecars, Cable Cars and Omnibuses," by John H. White Jr. or something similar, and it had a picture of a double-decker horsecar with racially segregated decks. I would think the same policies applied to the streetcars. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 00:08, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Double-deck tramcars appear to have been the norm in South Africa. I have created a number of articles about them. They can be found in Category:Tram transport in South Africa. All of the articles have an image, and also a commonscat link to more images on commons, many of which I uploaded myself. Bahnfrend (talk) 07:30, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me. I just added the WikiProject Streetcars tag to that category. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 16:14, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Station disambiguation (June 2014)

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Station disambiguation (June 2014). --Redrose64 (talk) 09:50, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Subterranea Britannica discussion

I started a discussion regarding the links to http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ (with Template:Subbrit at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Subterranea_Britannica. I figured this notice would help provide people with some more insight than me. Thanks. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:21, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Disused-stations

Template:Disused-stations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Redrose64 (talk) 08:47, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Further to the above, please see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Subterranea Britannica. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:35, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Trains At Wikimania 2014 (updated version)

Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

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The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:

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