User:Aaron-Tripel

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 [nl]. 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

magnum opus

.

I have a great interest in

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

Articles created from scratch

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

(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

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

Three foot six inch gauge railways and Category:2 ft 6 in gauge railways

:

Forked from

Three foot gauge railways and Category:3 ft gauge railways

(Most of its content was contributed by User:Jackdude):

Three foot gauge railways in the United Kingdom
Three foot gauge railways in the United States

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:
- Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways in the United Kingdom
- Two foot gauge railways in Australia
- Two foot gauge railways in the United States
- 600 mm gauge railways in Germany

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

:

Gebishi Railway