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Metro Light Rail

Hi - thanks for doing that to the MLR page. The duplication wasn't done by me - I did all the research and put it into the MLR page where it was originally. It was someone else who copied it into the Metropolitan Goods Line page. Despite your work, though, I think you've taken a bit too much out of the article. The MLR article now only covers construction of the line to Darling Harbour. The freight lines from Darling Harbour to Sefton were built a long time after the Darling Harbour line was built, and that needs to be mentioned. It need only be a few sentences outlining this as well as the opening of the Darling Harbour line. I have a lot of newspaper articles on the proposals, building and opening of the light rail that I can add to the history section at some stage. Also, I'm tempted to get rid of some of the images and/or tables at the moment. There's too much clutter in the article. JRG 12:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I tried to find articles about the conversion of the line from freight to line rail - which government ministers were behind it, which companies kick started it - but as you probably know there is limited info on the web for this. If you have articles that can contribute it would be great to add these. I was going to have a look in the state library at old SMH articles of the time.

If you can see parts of the info which I removed that are relevant to this article - remember it should be primarily focused on the light rail side of things, then add it back in. It would be good to take this to Good Article status, it shouldn't be too hard of a jump. Nomadtales 00:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I've had access to Factiva for a while and was able to get hold of them then. I believe I've got about 20 different articles covering different proposals for the line's use going back to the mid-1980s. Among earlier considerations was to join it up as part of the CityRail network, or to turn the line into a busway! The existing proposal came about because of Olympics funding from the Federal Government to revitalise the Pyrmont area.

You might want to have a look at what I wrote on the Summer Hill article (in the transport section) and there's a couple of articles on the recent extension proposal to Dulwich Hill/Summer Hill which you might like to expand on. There's also this page on the upgrade of Jubilee Park station, though it may be more appropriate on the station page.

We also desparately need some photos. There was a dodgy fair use one from Star City station here before and it got deleted, and I've taken some station photos from the stations at the far end of the line, but we need some photos of rollingstock, maybe one of the goods line beyond Lilyfield to illustrate expansions, and maybe a ticket (for a future "fares" section or the like). I can't really help - I've taken what I can - but given that the LR is in the city it shouldn't be too hard to take some photos of stations and trams. JRG 03:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Duns Creek

Duns Creek is a suburb of the Port Stephens Council LGA and is officially recognised as a suburb according to the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.[1] It used to be a collection of farms until some of them were subdivided into smaller residential blocks but it is most definitely not a town. To be honest, it really doesn't fall into the Wikipedia definition of a suburb either but it's more close to a suburb than it ever will be to a town. --AussieLegend 09:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Timeline

Is there anyway to fix the year and name text? They look absolutely horrible and grainy -- especially hard to read. --TheSeer (TalkˑContribs) 05:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Melanesia assessment

I noticed your posts on the Melanesia pages. I created an article, Copra dummies. How can I get it assessed in terms of Melanesian/PNG importance? I thought it would be good to get it assessed by someone else for quality and importance. Thanks, Lester 22:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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Swamp Ghost

Any new info about her? Is she still sitting in Lae? Fightin' Phillie (talk) 00:10, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Walka

I've used photos of signs previously, at One Mile, New South Wales in support of confusion over the suburb's name, and at Tanilba Bay, New South Wales as support for information about Tanilba House. I have no doubt that others will have some issues about the lack of references for this article but I don't see anything controversial about what you've written that really requires citations and I can't see why the information sign isn't a valid reference. Sometimes you just can't find references and I think a photo that can be viewed immediately is far better verification than a book that can only be found in a library or obscure bookshop. --AussieLegend (talk) 11:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

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Sydney meetup

Hi, I got your name from this list, and thought you might be interested in a meetup in Sydney at the Alexandria Hotel tomorrow. I hope you can join us. Sorry for the late notice. --99of9 (talk) 11:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nomadtales, it would be good to meet with you and chat about PNG. I've set up another meetup page for 10 January, Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/January 2013, however my wife and I will be happy to come and meet you anywhere near a NSW train line.(wmau:User:John_Vandenberg/January_2013) John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Main Southern railway line, New South Wales

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