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Three years ago i wrote a thread on the other platform about #Wikidata loves #railways:
Based on items about railway stations linked through the "adjacent station" property (https://wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P197) we can query beautiful topological maps of railway lines.
For Austria there is a lot of work to do: https://w.wiki/dTi (edited Query 2024-07: https://w.wiki/AbEg)
[Three years later, we can see a lot of work is done, not everything accurate but things are growing]
i have started with my personal favourite lines in Lower Austria -
@kamptalbahnfans
, Franz-Josefs-Bahn, Tullnerfeldbahn are already modelled in Wikidata. https://w.wiki/dTm
The Wikidata items about railway stations not only contains the adjacent stations, the connecting lines or coordinates, there are also different identifiers stored like the
@unsereOEBB
station code or a date when a station was dissolved: https://w.wiki/dTn
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The Wiki*Community has already done a lot of documentation about railways in Austria, e.g. the
@Wikipedia
pages about the lines or some pages about stations and of course many pictures stored on
@WikiCommons
. The Wikidata items link all these information.
Having a good Wikidata station item the {{Wikidata Infobox}} on commons creates a great infobox for all the Austrian railway station categories like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bahnhof_Greifenstein-Altenberg
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There is a rail link between Narvik and Singapore in #Wikidata: https://w.wiki/4Fx5
And i promise[d in 2021]: when the Wikidata rail network is closed in Austria, this train will take a line through and not around it. ;-)
Two years later, much more railway line data in Wikidata show up a direct connection between Norway and Singapure through Russia.
(Due to the fact so many here boost this post: this query wasn't built by myself, unfortunately i don't know whom to give the credits! 
)
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so, now i have brought in here this beloved thread, i don't need my account overthere anymore. 
