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Am proposing to make some changes around this page, and some associated ones.
the title is currently misleading - as there were several independent railways on the EP - the Port Lincoln Division of the SAR (Also ANRC Central, Eyre Peninsula Lines), the BHP Proper Bay- Coffin Bay Tramway, the WHyalla Tramway, the Commonwealth Railways/ANRC/ARTC Port Augusta to Whyalla Line, and several other short railways for local purposes.
therefore - I would suggest that this page become "Eyre Peninsula Railways/Tramways" and link off to other pages with titles consistent as above.
Please post your thoughts and ideas here
Sulzer55 ( talk) 10:17, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
As Sulzer55 observed, the title is misleading, as there were several independent railways on the EP. He added, "I would suggest that this page become 'Eyre Peninsula Railways/Tramways'."
I think the article title should be "Eyre Peninsula Railways", i.e. the plural of the present title, reflecting the content of the article.
I'm familiar with the significance of the term "tramway" in mining contexts, and I believe the article should mention the term in a historical context. However, the term isn't used by the present owners and would only complicate the title for non-specialised readers; it only needs to be covered in the body of the article.
I'm doing some research to update the article and it looks logical to structure the content under headings of "Lines in the north-east" (i.e., the GFG Alliance lines and ARTC Port Augusta to Whyalla); and "Lines in the west and south", i.e. GWA's gypsum and grain hauling. As a start, to fill in a couple of evenings I've researched and prepared a map showing the current situation and tracked down an SAR map of 1953; both are now uploaded from Wikimedia. This will be easier to follow, I believe, than the schematic.
Comments welcome! SCHolar44 ( talk) 17:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Oppose, this article is about the former SAR and latterly GWA narrow gauge railway. The other lines have their own stand alone articles, namely Coffin Bay Tramway, Whyalla Steelworks and Whyalla railway line. Kesseusoo ( talk) 08:09, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Just to let people know: I had literally finished an upgrade of the present article that encompassed all the lines on the peninsula when the cessation of wheat haulage was forecast. I held off until the somewhat delayed consultant report came out and announcements had been made -- hope springs eternal! I thought I might only have to put things in the past tense (OK, I exaggerate a little) but in fact it has led to quite profound changes in content and structure of my draft. The article will be finished in the next couple of weeks. I’m hoping to publish on 1st June, with a slight feeling of irony.
Please contact me if my intention conflicts with any plans of yours. Cheers, SCHolar44 ( talk) 02:36, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
I refer to your reversion of my recent edit and your edit summary (i.e. "citation is provided about rebranding of Genesee & Wyoming Australia to One Rail Australia on the GWA article") I disagree with your action for the following reason. The requirement that the reader has to go to another article to find a citation (i.e. Reference no. 28) for a name change is very unreasonable. Also, if the name change is of any importance, should not Genesee & Wyoming Australia be immediately renamed and all of the relevant links be upgraded?
Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 06:56, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
...Genesee & Wyoming Australia (GWA) will be renamed One Rail Australia...
...Genesee & Wyoming Australia, the freight rail operator is now known as One Rail Australia.
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Eyre Peninsula Railway's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "merger":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:22, 16 October 2022 (UTC)