Introduction to the Railway Knowledge Base
This Wiki has been conceived out of a need to see a more organised way of presenting information on the web about rail heritage matters in New Zealand. The key to unlocking that came after I developed a new way of presenting the railway network in a compact way using a spreadsheet. This has now been successfully translated into a wiki table that you can see here and accessible from a link on the main page. I hope to have the North Island completed by June 2021 which will then provide some 3000 pages where any information relating to railway tracks and facilities can be saved in a very structured way, and quickly found again.
While this first step only deals with railway facilities, have a look at the Vision link to get an idea of where this wiki could head. To begin with I want to build up a glossary of terms so that users can get to understand railway terms from a more technical perspective rather than just a common usage one as that can sometimes lead to much confusion.