Wikivoyage:Rail expedition

The Rail Expedition is an expedition to improve our coverage on all forms of passenger rail travel, be they heritage railways or high speed rail, the shortest urban rail systems or the Trans Siberian Railway.

Short term Goals

 * Add metro maps to the dynamic maps of cities or at least svg. based network plans
 * Add markers for the intercity train stations (lots of them have wikipedia articles, so the Wikidata link does a lot of the heavy lifting, for those that do not, use Openstreetmap or other maps to get coordinates)
 * Improve the coverage of "rail travel in x" either by improving the "by train" sections or by spinning of "rail travel in x" articles
 * Remove third party links and whenever possible give information equal to or better than the replaced link

Long term Goals

 * Turn Wikivoyage into the first reference for voyagers who prefer rail
 * Catch up with an surpass other guides, particularly Seat 61 (already the case for some countries and regions)
 * Have a map for every light and heavy urban rail system integrated into all dynamic maps; work together with Wikidata and Openstreetmap to keep them virtually self-updating
 * Make railroads great again

Dedicated country rail travel articles

 * High-speed rail in China
 * High-speed rail in South Korea
 * Rail travel in India
 * Rail travel in Japan
 * Seishun 18 Ticket
 * Trans-Siberian Railway
 * Rail travel in Europe
 * European rail passes
 * Rail travel in France
 * Rail travel in Germany &mdash; guide, but in need of some updates to keep with the times
 * Rail travel in the United Kingdom
 * Rail travel in Ireland
 * Rail travel in the Netherlands &mdash; guide
 * Rail and bus travel in Sweden
 * Rail travel in Switzerland
 * Rail travel in Canada
 * Across Canada by train
 * The Canadian &mdash; itinerary, has a map with major stations marked
 * Rail travel in the United States
 * Amtrak Cascades &mdash; itinerary, has a map with all stations marked
 * California Zephyr &mdash; itinerary
 * Empire Builder &mdash; itinerary, has a map with all stations marked
 * Rail travel in Australia
 * Across Australia by train
 * Rail travel in New Zealand

Rail itineraries
While it cannot be our goal to cover every last commuter train, we do have itineraries for the more famous and longer distance trains

With

 * Algiers Metro
 * Beijing Subway
 * Chicagoland
 * Chicago "L"
 * Metra
 * Delhi Metro
 * London Undergorund
 * New York City Subway
 * Paris Metro
 * MRT (Singapore)

Without

 * Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro line, Mecca (however, WP claims it to only be operational during the five days of Hajj)

Some/all lines missing

 * Yerevan Metro (Charbakh branch)
 * Most S-Bahns --> see talk page
 * RER line C
 * Istanbul (Tünel is missing completely)
 * San Francisco Bay Area
 * SMART

German Light Rail Systems not showing up on the map

 * Nuremberg Tram
 * Bielefeld Stadtbahn
 * Potsdam Tram
 * Dresden Tram
 * Halle Tram
 * Basel Tram (also reaching Saint-Louis (Haut Rhin) and Weil am Rhein)
 * Jena tram

Article ideas and requests
Do we want more itineraries for travel by rail? I know of some named passenger rail lines in the USA and Canada that don't yet have itineraries: Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" (Chicago/Memphis/New Orleans), "Coast Starlight" (Seattle/Los Angeles), and "Maple Leaf" (NYC/Toronto), and VIA's "The Ocean" (Montreal/Halifax). --Robkelk (talk) 16:07, 5 July 2018 (UTC) There's also VIA's Winnipeg/Churchill run, but those tracks have been washed out for over a year. The Canadian government has ordered they be repaired or sold to someone who will repair them, though, so this itinerary might still be worthwhile. --Robkelk (talk) 21:16, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Milestones
Fourth of July 2018 &mdash; Expedition left the station

Expedition members

 * Hobbitschuster
 * MSG17
 * Selfie City
 * Blackcurrant9