Talk:List of closed railway stations in Melbourne

message: I'm probably speaking out of line here, as I haven't edited this page at all, nor read the talk page in great detail, but perhaps the page name could be changed to "History of Melbourne railways" or something similar? --Chuq 06:31, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a good page to have, but as a seperate one from this I think, because there are so many closed stations/lines they deserve their own page. The history page would invlove the development of the existing network probably, and would be the next stage in the Melbourne railways work. Hypernovean 06:46, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

text: It's not a history of Melbourne railways. It's a list of closed stations. There's certainly a need for an article on the former, and I've collated information to write a fairly good article on at least the early part of that history, but it doesn't belong in with this one. Ambivalenthysteria 13:08, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page name? 

message: Is there any chance that any of you would be able to get a picture of General Motors station for that article? I'd go take it myself, but it's too far to walk from either Dandenong or Hallam, and there doesn't appear to be any way to get to it by other public transport. Ambivalenthysteria 09:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I know we now have a photo of it on Wikipedia, but anyway: If anyone is thinking of getting there via Public Transport, don't. The only way to get there via public transport is to get off at either Dandenong or Hallam stations, walk all the way to Princes Hwy, walk down Progress St to the other side of the crossing [which has no pedestrian gates], walk down a 1km track then do the normal business of walking on the tracks and climbing up onto one of the derelict platforms (then doing that again to go between platforms, as the pedestrian bridge is now fenced off). The only way to get there is by road - there is no bus route that goes nearby, and it's in an isolated location. Somebody in the WWW 06:59, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: I thought I'd read somewhere that this was electified, but it would probably make more sense if it wasn't. Ambi 12:23, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fairly certain it wasn't too, though I assumed it was at one stage. TPK 13:32, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Warburton

message: Ok, lets branch this off into a seperate discussion. As well as the Metfink ones and the Vicrailstations ones, we can also get some photos from here, which according to  are public domain as long as the photographer is credited. Somebody in the WWW 02:45, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding Metfink, he did agree that any of the GMH photos could be used, as well as photos from the rest of his site, but please don't use too many, as the agreement (or my understanding of it) was that we could use any, but not all, photos from his site. He also has a metf2ink website which has much higher quality pictures, but I am not sure if we could use anything other than the GMH photos (one of which I've uploaded from there). But as we get more sources for pictures, it won't be much of a problem. T.PK 04:12, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't used many of his photos, and on some pages (ie: Laburnum railway station, Melbourne I've replaced his photos with photos from other sources (including some taken by me). Somebody in the WWW 06:44, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: <sigh> I think we are going to have to delete the metfink and other non-free images we're using. Someone has just added :Image:Aircraft-metfink.jpg to WP:PUI (as ), and now it is probably going to be deleted. Anyone here willing to go out and take some GFDL/PD photos on their own? Somebody in the WWW 02:05, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Damnit. I knew they weren't going to last forever, but I didn't realise they were already being deleted. I've had bad luck lately in that every time I'm near a station, I either don't have my camera, or the conditions are too overcast or dark to take a good shot. I guess I just got lucky the day I did the Alamein line. If we can get a decent day in the next couple of weeks, I might go down for the day and spend it doing one of the longer ones. Ambi 02:54, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: We could probably get the vicrailstations ones up as , as vicrailstations (Ross) said that he doesn't mind other sites using his photos as long as he is credited. Could we get away with that, or would that just get deleted? I have some photos of some stations, but I don't really want them released under the GFDL as Wikipedia forces for images you hold copyright on (I would prefer to use another free licence). Somebody in the WWW 09:33, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That wouldn't work, either. I've seen a bunch of noncommercial images on that image deletion page. What license were you thinking of licensing your photos under? If it's a more stringent license, then you're out of luck, but if it's a more lenient license, then multilicensing is easy enough...User:Dysprosia licenses hers under some obscure one that I've never heard of. Ambi 10:19, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. I guess we'll just have to get busy ourselves. Alternatively, another solution may be to post about this situation on Railpage. While the serious collectors like Metfink and Ross may be unwilling to license theirs under the GFDL, we may be able to get some more amateurish gunzels who'd be willing to. Ambi 10:19, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Try posting on Railpage then.  may help.Somebody in the WWW 10:25, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: Did you guys see that? I read it and considered keeping it for WP, but you're obviously ahead of the Age anyway. ;) I think this might be it:  pfctdayelise 06:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture of Deepdene station would be nice. It is probably out of copyright, too, considering the station closed in 1927. The suggestions about lines that might be reopened in the future are interesting, too, but I think we've already got the rest. :) Ambi 07:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent article in the Age's summerA2 section 

message: from reading this article i was thinking the name is abit miss leading, the article also covers closed lines and rebuilt stations, perhaps somthing along the line of List of closed Melbourne rail infustructure would work better? also is it possible to archive some of this talk page? --Dan027 12:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's necessary. It is, primarily, a list of closed stations, but also provides the list of closed lines for context. Rebecca 05:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article atleast requires some revision, i have plans to do this in the future, before i started on it the name change might be benificial, it might not fit the article in its current form, but why cant it in the future?, just from using it myself ive found it very hard to read, why do we need to have a closed line then the stations from that line in seperate boxes? this could be solved by adding acouple of extra collums into one of them, then merging them together? im not 100% sure what would work but in its current state it does my head in. --Dan027 10:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why. It sets out the lines that have closed as an overview, and then goes through the stations in chronological order, being a list of stations. I would personally find the alternative much more confusing (For one, it doesn't take into account the number of stations on still-open lines that have closed). Rebecca 03:14, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name change 

message: I'm not sure where this line started or ended (or when), but there was a train line that went through Ormond (west to east).  In the map below you can see a strip of park land between Princes Park and EE Gunn (the park just North of North Rd and adjacent to the frankston train line).  This park land was where the train line was.  
I think the line went out to Oakliegh.
Anyone know more details?
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=-37.898579~145.02923&style=h&lvl=15&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shniken (talk • contribs).
:It was the Rosstown Railway.
:—Philip J. Rayment 04:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elsternwick-Oakliegh Line 

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