User:NE2/important railway articles

The assessment system doesn't have quite enough granularity.

Rail transport

Physical things:

• Train
  • Locomotive
    • Dieselisation
    • Railway electrification system
    • Steam locomotive
  • Railroad car
• Railway line (what the...)
  • Permanent way: historical development
  • Maintenance of way?
  • Rail tracks
    • Rail gauge
  • Train station

Concepts and practices:

• Rail transport operations
  • Bank engine
  • Rail yard
  • Railway signalling
  • Train dispatcher (rename Train dispatching?)
  • Train wreck
• Passenger rail transport?
  • Cable car (railway)
  • High-speed rail
  • Rapid transit
  • Tram
• Freight rail transport
  • Containerization
• Railway company (repurpose to talk about train operators as opposed to line owners?)
  • Arrangements between railroads
  • Rolling stock
  • Railway regulation?

Other:

• History of rail transport
  • Timeline of railway history
• Rail transport by country (just an index)
• Railfan
  • Rail transport modelling
• Glossary of rail terminology

For reference, the Library of Congress Classification uses (under technology/railroad engineering and operation):

• Railway construction
• Railway equipment and supplies
• Railway operation and management
• Local and light railways
  • Elevated railways and subways
• Electric railways
• High speed ground transporation