It is the home of railway content – text, maps, images, documents, links, etc.
Think of it almost as a way of organising and storing all the bits and pieces together.
There are 6 primary post/content types, the links below explain a bit more about each:
Note: the pages are not the content, just the explanations. The dummy post are listed as menu drop downs under each of the explanation pages.
There will be natural relationships between entries, and each will have a specific set of relevant data. For example, rolling stock may have a manufacturer, owners, and liveries (single or many over time). A station may have different facilities such as fuelling or a workshop. A train may be international or local, a passenger train or freight train.
The nuance in language, relationships, and data elements is easy enough to change – this is an educated guess at how they should work together. At some point, it might be necessary to have additional data, like signals or important figures. Some things may collapse into each other. That’s ok too.
Some decisions about how certain data is stored may be needed, e.g. vehicle models are a relational taxonomy for rolling stock, meaning you can click on a class and see all relevant posts. It could function as a “wiki” or be used as a story-telling machanism. Right now, it’s role is capturing info and getting realtionships right. The end result can be something quite different.
A story could work like this: