Talk:The Ghan

message: I've just completed a massive re-write of this article with the addition of sources. Some remaining issues:
* I know there needs to be more information about the construction of the new line in the 1980s, I just haven't been able to find much. It seems to have been drowned out with the coverage of the expansion to Darwin in 2004
* Ghan Preservation Society: doesn't seem to have a website. I've looked for some information on their work, especially in preserving some of the sidings, do you think it's worth including here?
 I found one citation that seems to cover their work adequately.
* What else? I'm sure the article could benefit from more work, but I'm not sure precisely what. Travellingcari (talk) 21:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh the benefits of being relatively more local (I'm now in the US). Thanks for that and for fixing the image spacing. Travellingcari (talk) 12:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

text: When the extension to Darwin was discussed in South Australia around 1993, it was mentioned that the Federal government had received the land for that railway line in the process of Federation. But soon there was World War I, then the Depression, then WWII and subsequently the change to freight being moved by trucks which caused the project not pursued. Then someone mentioned as a joke that the former, now late SA Premier John Bannon (originally a lawyer), should be used to take the Federal government to court to build the railway or return the land. That was in 1993. Things went quiet but then building started ten years later. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:5936:9A98:2E56:2E2A (talk) 00:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

text: It happens when all of the 'code' for the images is in one place of a page 'section' between headsing, and the total amount of images is more than the area in the 'section'. Fixed now, by moving them apart. Wongm (talk)
===Service Class===
I was just looking at The Overland and wondered whether we need to include the classes of service information here? I don't think so since that's more of information that someone would look for on The Ghan's website. Thoughts? Travellingcari (talk) 12:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: January 2008

message: I was just looking at The Overland and wondered whether we need to include the classes of service information here? I don't think so since that's more of information that someone would look for on The Ghan's website. Thoughts? Travellingcari (talk) 12:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Service Class

message: There is a need for explanation in either edit summary or here - as to what is going on - please help with explanations one way or other in AGF - cheers SatuSuro 05:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume good faith but I reverted back to the clean IP version as the first revert missed a chunk of the creation of the new line. I'm going offline, hope either of you can keep an eye out for further content removal tonight? TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 05:06, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent edits

message: One source for the train's name (see last paragraphs): . Jpatokal (talk) 05:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: Article Snowy Mountains Scheme cites reliable sources confirming it as the "the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia". 203.7.140.3 (talk) 00:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See notation above, didn't realise you put this in two spots. I added a note with dual citation. Thoughts? TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 01:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Snowy Mountains Scheme employed 100,000 people, cost $6 billion in today's prices and took 25 years to built. The railway employed 1,800 people, cost $1.3 billion and took 3 years. There is simply no comparison. CNN simply got it wrong. The media does get "facts" wrong on a regular basis. The weight of evidence is behind the Snowy and the competing claim should be removed. If there is a place for such a claim it is in Adelaide-Darwin Railway, not here. 203.7.140.3 (talk) 03:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  mmm, might have just found the source of CNN's issue, seems as if they chopped off the 2nd half of this sentence. Ignore for the moment that it's transcluded to an encyclopedia, appears to be copied from an RS. Am about to update with it and remove the conflicting tag since I think it will make sense then. It's the largest since the Snowys TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 03:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article contradicts another article

message: In its present form, this article is lacking in focus, and is therefore confusing, because it blurs the distinction between the train and the various railway lines over which the train has travelled.  For example, the article uses Template:Infobox Public transit, when it should be using Template:Infobox rail service.  Each of the railway lines in question either has, or should have, an article of its own.  I therefore intend, in the near future, to make some significant edits to this article (including changing the infobox), so as to sharpen its focus on the train. Bahnfrend (talk) 03:03, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Support separation - the confusion between the actual train, and the two lines is difficult enough - why not three separate articles? sats 09:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article focus 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on The Ghan. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20071011125555/http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/heritagensw/mar99/7_art.htm to http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/heritagensw/mar99/7_art.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
 --FranSisPac (talk) 12:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It would be helpful if somebody who knows how Wiki handles pronunciations would add them in the opening sentence.  People (i.e., from USA; don't know what the British would do) unaware of the train name's assumed derivation from Afghan camel drivers might tend to pronounce it as "Gaahn" (as in, say, gondola).Casey (talk) 05:48, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation