Talk:Western Australian Government Railways

message: : Ideally it would be good to get the Branch/named lines opening and closing dates where applicable.
If anyone is lurking around this article, it would be good to see some bits and pieces added or any possible links to the various enthusiasts websites would be great!User:SatuSuro 12:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I am keen to research and add more details of branch lines, sidings, stations, yards, locos etc but a bit unsure of the naming standards to keep the article police at bay. I also think a tighter category would be useful, something like 'Rail transport in Western Australia' or 'Railways of Western Australia' cheers Nachoman-au 05:13, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Good suggestion - the title of this art was known by most in the old days as 'the wagr', but for off-shoot arts would be good with something like 'Rail Transport of Western Australia' - as the dominant 'railroad' moniker supporters cannot come and do edits if we dont carry the 'railway' word! User:Satusuro 09:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the comments Satusuro. While poking around google I can across this good reference for Named Passenger trains in the WAGR era  Nachoman-au 13:56, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments

message: I have sent a personal message to grahamerec about the non wagr info - I am assuming thaat this art was not started as 'the history of rail transport in wa" but specifically the wagr - I would suggest a separate l;inked art for that title and the editing/moving of some of the stuff inserted here to an art with thaat broader picture.  also I really hadnt intended - on the creation of this article to include post wagr info either - the wagr existed within a particular window of time - I would suggest more recent incarnations deserve separate arts.  Comments from other editors would be appreciated. User:SatuSuro 12:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorporattion of non wagr info into this art

message: In the lead the article suggests that Public Transport Authority == Western Australian Government Railways. Is this actually true, or has someone added it because they were both government authorities and both ran railways? Wongm (talk) 13:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Transport Authority = Western Australian Government Railways 

message: Hello all! I have now just about completed an entirely new article for this page. It is currently offline and I just wanted to state my intentions and get some feedback before I go ahead with the upload. I have restructured and rewritten almost everything, but have preserved other users contributions, editing only where necessary to maintain continuity &c. I think that this article will bring the WAGR page in line with other railway company articles, such as that on the Great Western Railway. I have included sections on Geography, Engineering, Passenger and Freight services, Ancillary services, advertising, services to patrons, operational centres, preservation and more! 
Please feel free to scrutinise my other Wikipedia articles. The WAGR P and Pr Classes article was written by me in entirey, and I think it is of a high standard.
I am currently working on revisions, images and references, but hope to have it complete within the week. Regards! 
Corporal29 (talk) 10:31, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Article 

message: I have rearranged the named services into a sortable table (sort by destination, date or name). I started out just fixing a simple indentation issue and it escalated. I was careful to only use data that was already on Wikipedia but I'm not entirely sure that the Kalgoorlie services are correct. Possibly the remark for the Kalgoorlie Express should be shifted to The Kalgoorlie. Anybody know? Which ever one is correct, the big long remark would be better in that (currently non-existent) article.  Stepho  talk  09:27, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalgoorlie services 

message: I understand that the lines mentioned in history of operations were made dual gauge rather than being converted outright and that as such the statement is inaccurate. Peter Horn User talk 01:15, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Only the line from East Perth / Kwinana to Northam is dual gauge, most of it on new alignments.  East of Northam, the 3ft 6 in track was converted to standard gauge and partially realigned. Bahnfrend (talk) 12:32, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dual gauge? 

message: The Western Australian Government Railways Commission is just a rename of Western Australian Government Railways/Westrail and not a separate entity. See the Westrail 2000 annual report, which indicates it was known as the "Western Australian Government Railways Commission" some time before 18 December 2000. Also see the State Records Office, which says "On 17 December 2000, the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) freight division was sold to the Australian Railway Group along with the Westrail name and logo. The WAGR continued to operate as the Western Australian Government Railways Commission." This indicates that the Western Australian Government Railways Commission is not a separate entity to Westrail. Steelkamp (talk) 12:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No objection, having created the article(s), my response is restrained due to agf. Short lived variations also included the variant names in the earlier years, maybe not separate articles, as this merge and argument insist. JarrahTree 12:52, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: True, there were a whole bunch of different names in the first half of the 20th century as shown here. Steelkamp (talk) 14:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

text: sigh, you are quoting the item to me from what I utilised some years ago in the wagr article -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_Government_Railways#Name. There were significant issues in aspects of the name changes, and others very insignificant JarrahTree 00:52, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Western Australian Government Railways Commission]] into [[Western Australian Government Railways]]