Talk:Rail gauge in Australia

message: This article was nominated for CSD as a short article lacking context. Given that it then consisted of one line, that is understandable. However, it had a couple of links in What Links Here and as an Australian, I had some background in it. I have created it as an Australian rail stub. It still needs more referencing. Capitalistroadster 07:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CSD nomination

message: I indend to expand his article into either Rail gauge in Australia or Gauge standardisation in Australia, with discussion of the various gauge standardisation proposals that have appeared over the years. Not just the origins of the gauges.
Eg:
* the 1921 Royal Commission into Gauge Standardisation
* The 1940s Clapp plan.
* Work on the 1960s - 1970s Kalgoolie - Perth and Broken Hill - SA links to form the Transcontinental line.
A few sources found so far:
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Feel free to jump in and help! Wongm (talk) 10:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: For over a century, newspapers and parliaments in Australia debated two issues:
* cheaper railways using narrower gauges.
* the inconvenience of the break of gauge.
Thus South Australia considered building more  than they actually did, with possibly more breaks of gauge.
Thus Victoria considered in the 1870s building large section of the country network in either  or 2' 9".  This is separate from the small lengths of  lines actually built in the 1900s.
Thus Queensland also considered introducing 2' 9" to reduce costs compared to their original .       
Tabletop (talk) 02:56, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: South Australia also considered at least one 2'6" line, as did NSW, while the original plans for Vic included substantially more 2'6" lines. --Michael Johnson (talk) 01:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stillborn gauges 

message: If someone feels up to it I think a detailed map or maps showing the different gauges in Australia would greatly help the article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.180.127 (talk) 02:01, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Clapp map in the article now has a legend listing gauges.   Tabletop (talk) 14:31, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: :: In 1922, 273 inventions to solve the break of gauge had been rejected, and none adopted.
:: In 1933, 140 devices were rejected.
How can the number of rejections go DOWN from 1922 to 1933?   Tabletop (talk) 12:44, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rejections 

message: I question weather fisherman islands is actually a break of gauge. there is no transference of goods between gauges here. it is a dual gauge line, but they run straight from port to destination.
Pga1965 (talk) 10:42, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  is Fisherman Islands a break of gauge? 

message: I have done some work to expand the section on the origins of the gauge muddle, in particularly to draw on the scholarship of Mills.  Given how significant the decisions between 1849 and 1853 were I think the level of detail given is justified.  I also added reference to the context within the British Empire at the time.    I think some further small amendments could be made to indicate the changing views of the development of railway technology in that period which saw the apparent technical benefits of broad gauge all but evaporate; this is I think a secondary consideration when that key to the history was the advice and understanding of the importance of a common gauge and the subsequent inability of the figures involved to bring this to fruition. Australia was not alone in this problem. Tjej (talk) 01:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  early history and origins of the gauge muddle 

message: Is Murray Basin project about rail standardisation? iamthinking2202 (please ping on reply if you would be so kind) 01:06, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. SCHolar44 (talk) 01:35, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murray Basin project