Born in the Netherlands in 1976. As a teenager, I was a volunteer on one of the first Dutch narrow gauge railway preservation initiatives, the Pony- en Motortram 't Joppe [nl]. The latter Dutch Wikipedia article was my first Wikipedia contribution ever, as an anonymous user.
I started on the English Wikipedia on 5 November 2011 with creating the Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa article, which I consider my magnum opus.
I have a great interest in narrow gauge railways, especially the Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways.
Apart from contributing to the WikiProject Trains I use Wikipedia for my other interests like geopolitics, personal development and history.
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When I first discovered the narrow gauge railway aricle, the "Narrow gauge railways by country" section had grown extremely large, containing over 100,000 bytes ([1]). From 28 July 2013 I started forking many countries into their own respective articles and expanded its contents:
I moved the remainder in the narrow gauge railways by continent articles and created the Navbox Narrow gauge railways by continent:
The narrow gauge railway article was now reduced to less than 20,000 bytes. Then I continued to create narrow gauge railways by country articles:
Forked from Three foot six inch gauge railways and Category:2 ft 6 in gauge railways:
Forked from Three foot gauge railways and Category:3 ft gauge railways (Most of its content was contributed by User:Jackdude):
Started from list of track gauges and Category:600 mm gauge railways / Category:2 ft gauge railways, much research on the internet and contributions of other editors:
Forked from list of track gauges and Category:750 mm gauge railways / Category:900 mm gauge railways:
From History of rail transport in Morocco:
From Kunming–Hai Phong Railway:
