Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Categories
The following (necessarily incomplete) list shows the majority of categories relevant to this WikiProject.
- Category names in bold highlight major subject areas (to aid list navigation)
- Indented bullets show subcategories within a parent category
- Large sub-category sets (eg 'xxx by county') are summarised to avoid swamping the list
- Sub-categories belonging to multiple parents (from this list) are shown once, under the 'most appropriate' parent
- Project members are encouraged to add omissions to the list
Top-level parent categories
[edit]The following high-level categories are generally not used for individual articles as more appropriate subcategories can be found within them:
Railway lines, stations and geography
[edit]These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in the United Kingdom:
- Category:Railway lines in the United Kingdom
- Category:Rail transport in England
- Category:Rail transport in ... county
- Category:Rail transport in London
- Category:Rail transport in Northern Ireland
- Category:Rail transport in Scotland
- Category:Heritage railways in Scotland
- Category:Railway accidents in Scotland
- Category:Railway companies of Scotland
- Category:Railway lines in Scotland
- Category:Disused railway stations in Scotland
- Category:SPT railway stations
- Category:Railway stations in ... county
- Category:Railway stations in Scotland
- Category:Rail transport in Wales
- Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom
- Category:Disused railway goods stations in the United Kingdom
- Category:Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
- Category:Beeching closures
- Category:Disused railway stations in England
- Category:Disused railway stations in Northern Ireland
- Category:Disused railway stations in Scotland
- Category:Disused railway stations in Wales
- Category:Disused railway stations in ... county (all the above countries except Northern Ireland)
- Category:Railway stations in England
- Category:Railway stations in ... county
- Category:Railway stations in London
- Category:Railway stations in Wales
- Category:Railway stations in Scotland
- Category:Network Rail managed stations
- Category:Railway stations serving airports in the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway stations serving harbours and ports in the United Kingdom
- Category:United Kingdom railway station stubs
Railway companies
[edit]These are subcategories of Category:Railway companies of the United Kingdom:
- Category:Big four British railway companies
- Category:British joint railway companies
- Category:British Rail
- Category:Beeching closures
- Category:British Rail regions
- Category:Thameslink
- Also several subcategories regarding rolling stock, see separate section below.
- Category:Broad gauge (7 feet) railway companies
- Category:Community railway lines in the United Kingdom
- Category:Early British railway companies
- Category:Minor British railway companies - those not grouped in 1923
- Category:Post-privatisation British railway companies
- Category:Pre-grouping British railway companies - duplicates links through Big Four Companies above
- Category:Railtour operators of the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway companies of Scotland
- Category:Railway scrapyards in the United Kingdom
These are categories from other areas that have also been used by articles within the scope of this project:
Locomotives and rolling stock
[edit]These are subcategories of Category:Locomotives. Most are also subcategories of the appropriate company categories listed above.
- Category:Broad gauge (7 feet) railway locomotives
- Category:Diesel locomotives
- Category:Electric locomotives
- Category:Experimental locomotives
- Category:Fictional locomotives
- Category:Individual locomotives
- Category:Locomotives by builder
- Category:Locomotives by railway
- Category:Eurotunnel locomotives
- Category:Locomotives of the Glasgow and South Western Railway
- Category:Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives
- Category:Metropolitan Railway locomotives
- Category:Northern Ireland Railway locomotives
- Category:War Department locomotives
- Category:British Rail locomotives
- Category:Great Western Railway locomotives
- Category:London and North Eastern Railway locomotives
- Category:London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives
- Category:Caledonian Railway locomotives
- Category:Highland Railway locomotives
- Category:Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotives
- Category:London and North Western Railway locomotives
- Category:Midland Railway locomotives
- Category:North London Railway locomotives
- Category:Northern Counties Committee locomotives
- Category:Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway locomotives
- Category:Southern Railway (UK) locomotives
- etc.
- Category:Locomotives by wheel arrangement
- Category:Steam locomotives
These are subcategories of Category:Rolling stock:
- Category:Coaching stock
- Category:Multiple units
- Category:British Rail coaching stock
- Category:Rolling stock manufacturers
- Category:High-speed trains
Heritage railways
[edit]These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in Great Britain:
- Category:Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
These are subcategories of Category:Railway stations in England:
- Category:Heritage railway stations in England
- Category:Heritage railway stations in ... county
Other categories
[edit]These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport:
- Category:People in rail transport
- Category:Rail transport magazines
- Category:Fiction about rail transport
- Category:Fictional locomotives
- Category:Fictional trains
- Category:The Railway Series – see Wikiproject Thomas for full list of sub-cats
- Category:Rail infrastructure
- Category:Level crossings
- Category:British railway junctions
- Category:Railway bridges
- Category:Railway engine sheds
- Category:Railway freight terminals
- Category:Railway lines
- Category:Narrow gauge railways
- Category:Four foot gauge railways
- Category:Metre gauge railways
- Category:Minimum gauge railways
- Category:Narrow gauge locomotives
- Category:Three foot gauge railways
- Category:Three foot six inch gauge railways
- Category:Two foot gauge railways
- Category:Two foot nine inch gauge railways
- Category:Two foot six inch gauge railways
- Category:Two foot three inch gauge railways
- Category:Narrow gauge railways
These are subcategories of Category:Rail transport in Great Britain:
- Category:Railway workshops in the United Kingdom
- Category:Eurostar
- Category:Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- Category:Named passenger trains of the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway accidents in the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway museums in the United Kingdom
- Category:Railway towns in England
- Category:Railway tunnels in the United Kingdom
These are categories from other areas that have also been used by articles within the scope of this project:
- Category:British railway-related lists
- Category:Railway Acts
- Category:Railway stations by year of establishment
- Category:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1835, etc.
- Category:Rail trails in the United Kingdom
- Category:1806 births, etc.
- Category:1859 architecture, etc.