Talk:Rail transport in Australia

message: Does Australia have a High-speed rail? It is not listed in the article? --Avinesh Jose   T   11:29, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you call 160 km/h high-speed - this is the fastest service speed. I have been working on an article on the various high speed rail proposals Australian has seen. Wongm (talk) 06:57, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't know it. Which is the article? --Avinesh Jose   T   06:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just finished it now: High-speed rail in Australia. Wongm (talk) 02:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  High-speed rail 

message: In Rail_transport_in_Australia#Iron_ore the article says "Read the internet articles" - which ones? 
There are no links or references. I would love to read the articles but without links ... 210.80.142.30 (talk) 00:36, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The phrase made no sense, so I have reworded it. http://www.railways.pilbara.net.au/ is a good railfan site about the railways of the area. Wongm (talk) 01:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Read the internet articles 

message: In the "Milestones" section the rail gauges are presented differently, sometimes in feet and inches first, sometimes with metric measures first and sometimes with the names "standard gauge" and "broad gauge" and sometimes not. I think it would be preferable to have a consistent layout. Compare this:
*1932 –  (Standard gauge) Sydney-Brisbane railway completed with the opening of bridge at Grafton
*1937 – Trans-Australian Railway extended to Port Pirie and the  (broad gauge) railway from Adelaide to Redhill extended to Port Pirie
*1954 - first main line electrification, from Dandenong to Traralgon in Victoria
*1962 – Albury to Melbourne  (standard gauge) railway opened, completing the Sydney-Melbourne railway
*1968 – Kalgoorlie to Perth  (standard gauge) railway opened
*1969 – Broken Hill to Port Pirie  (standard gauge) railway opened, completing the Sydney-Perth railway
*1980 – Tarcoola, South Australia to Alice Springs  (standard gauge) railway opened
*1982 –  Adelaide to Crystal Brook, South Australia  (standard gauge) railway opened
*1995 – Melbourne-Adelaide railway  (standard gauge) railway completed
*2004 – Adelaide-Darwin railway  (standard gauge) railway completed
With this:
*1932 – Standard gauge Sydney-Brisbane railway completed with the opening of bridge at Grafton
*1937 – Trans-Australian Railway extended to Port Pirie and the  (broad gauge) railway from Adelaide to Redhill extended to Port Pirie
*1954 - first main line electrification, from Dandenong to Traralgon in Victoria
*1962 – Albury to Melbourne standard gauge railway opened, completing the Sydney-Melbourne railway
*1968 – Kalgoorlie to Perth standard gauge railway opened
*1969 – Broken Hill to Port Pirie standard gauge railway opened, completing the Sydney-Perth railway
*1980 – Tarcoola, South Australia to Alice Springs standard gauge railway opened
*1982 – Adelaide to Crystal Brook, South Australia standard gauge railway opened
*1995 – Melbourne-Adelaide railway standard gauge railway completed
*2004 – Adelaide-Darwin railway standard gauge railway completed
The second example is more consistent and less cluttered. Therefore I think it would be preferable. What do others think? Michael Glass (talk) 11:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presentation of rail gauges 

message: Is there anywhere a list of heritage and tourist railways in Australia? -- Riggenbach (talk) 23:54, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heritage and tourist railways 

message: As an overall comment on the Rail Transport in Australia category, it looks like a bit of organisation and structuring would be helpful.  I am willing to help with this but might need to get some tutorial assistance from some more experienced wikipedians to help me out.  Are there any wikipedians wiling to do so.  Would this warrant a wikipedia project category, as a sub project to Transport in Australia and the overall Australia project?  Let me know thoughts either here or my talk page.  Thanks  Jamesbushell.au (talk) 09:40, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd just ask questions at WP:AWNB and see what happens. People tend to have broad and overlapping interests, so it might be worth a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian Roads to inform people if a conversation or collaboration starts. I've also thought there's a body of work in matching up the articles and improving the consistency. I've mostly looked at SA railways, and Rail transport in South Australia looks like it was written by several separate people who didn't read what was already written, but I haven't had time to think about planning a coherent article yet. The other states might be just as bad. --Scott Davis Talk 11:58, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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message: The summary has information that could be considered as opinion. Specifically the statement: "Rail transport in Australia has often been neglected in favour of the Australian road transport network." is an opinion of the author and not necessarily a statement of fact and could be subject of disagreement. While it may be true not everyone may agree. I suggest this be removed. (Footballzs (talk) 04:21, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening summary 

message: Adelaide–Darwin Railway is problematic as an article title because the "Railway" per se does not exist.
Over the past few weeks I have been checking the use of the name in a number of websites. None of them use Adelaide–Darwin Railway. This is shown, for example, on the website of One Rail, as owner and operator of the Tarcoola–Darwin line – https://1rail.com.au/#services: 
*"... intermodal services on the Adelaide to Darwin corridor, servicing Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine & Darwin"
*"the Adelaide-to-Darwin rail corridor"
One Rail also uses the term "Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line":
*"We operate in South Australia, the Northern Territory, which includes the Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line, ...".
I asked two industry executives and three railway historians, "What terminologies do you use for the various  railway infrastructures between Adelaide and Darwin?" None of them used the term "Adelaide–Darwin railway". Three of them specifically brought it up as a term that wasn't or shouldn't be used (one even wrote "There is NO Adelaide–Darwin railway!"). I received several operational documents which showed the only use of "railway" was "TAR" – Trans-Australian Railway.
I therefore propose that the article Adelaide–Darwin Railway be renamed to Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor.
The map opposite reflects the terms discussed. (It can be changed if necessary.)
I look forward to your comments.  Cheers, Simon   💬  at 13:38, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: And finally: the Adelaide–Darwin "Railway"