Talk:Localities on the Trans-Australian Railway

Article upgrade / proposal for merging
I have undertaken a comprehensive audit of current and historical references for the information in the list and placed it in a table. I did this because:


 * reference 1 is unverifiable


 * reference 2 is an old commercial trip guide, not close to an official source


 * reference 3 is 5 years older than currently available (not a major problem) but information in the article is inconsistent with it


 * distances are given from Coonamia, which is 92 km beyond the Trans-Australian Railway – they should be from Port Augusta, where the railway starts


 * some superseded names are provided but they are not all consistent with official sources and not consistent with early records; contemporary records are the preferable sources


 * text under the heading "Access" is unreferenced and may not be out of date.

Because of the unavailability of access to the first two references, I have updated to new ones, corrected the distances, deleted mention of alternative placenames (they are shown on the Commonwealth Railways map that I have added) and incorporated duplicative details previously in a table in the Trans-Australian Railway article showing naming after seven prime ministers.

Given that only one of the 51 stations (Kalgoorlie) is now staffed and elsewhere almost all infrastructure has been removed, I don't believe a separate article listing the localities is justified. I therefore propose this article for merging.

Please comment! SCHolar44 (talk) 10:00, 16 April 2020 (UTC)