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Updating the Inland Railway page

We at the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development have noticed that this page is not up-to-date and contains some factual inaccuracies, dead links and some project information gaps. There have been recent announcements and actions moving the Inland Railway project along, including the formation of the Inland Rail Implementation Group and an Australian Government committment of $300 million as first stage investment in the project.

Recent resources with information and updates about the project

Below are some resources with more information and updates about the Inland Rail project:

Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (24 April 2014). "Inland Rail". Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development. Retrieved 28 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Truss, Warren (7 March 2014). "Inland Rail Implementation Group getting things moving" (Press release). Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. {{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Australian Rail Track Corporation, Inland Rail Alignment Study, Australian Rail Track Corporation {{citation}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Truss, Warren (28 November 2013). "Inland Rail Starts Here and Now" (Press release). Archived from the original on 5 March 2014.
Truss, Warren; Briggs, Jamie (13 May 2014). "Investing in Freight Rail for the 21st Century" (Press release). Archived from the original on 11 June 2014.

Citations to provide more detailed parameters for references and to fix dead links in External links section

More than half of the external links on the Inland Railway page are currently deadlinks, below are the citations to fix the dead links, including archiveurls. The resources above provide more up-to-date information and could supplement these links.

Anderson, John (5 April 2001). Australian Australian Inland Rail Expressway (AIRE) Conference (Speech). Dinner Adddress. Dubbo. Archived from the original on 28 July 2008.
Howard, John (23 June 1998). "Inland Railway one step closer" (Press release). Archived from the original on 31 August 2000.
Ove Arup & Partners; TMG International (February 2001), Audit of the Inland Railway Proposal - Parkes to Brisbane Report (PDF), Australian Rail Track Corporation, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2005 {{citation}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 20 August 2006 suggested (help)
"Support growing for inland railway plan". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. AAP. 7 September 2006. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012.
The Australian Inland Rail Expressway, AIRE, April 2006, archived from the original on 17 June 2006
Ove Arup & Partners; TMG International (February 2001), Audit of the Inland Railway Proposal - Parkes to Brisbane Report (PDF), Australian Rail Track Corporation, archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2008

Dept.Infrastructure (talk) 23:55, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't this sentence a bit nonsensical?

First, I won't edit myself, I left Wikipedia long ago. Second, my proposal to you is to re-read the 2nd sentence under 'Overview'. It says there:

Isolated sections of the line would be built with dual gauge sleepers to facilitate a change of gauge or conversion to dual gauge at a later date.

We all know that Australia is committed to standard gauge, so why not delete the 'change of gauge or' part, such that the definite statement would be

Isolated sections of the line would be built with dual gauge sleepers to facilitate a conversion to dual gauge at a later date.

Otherwise you're saying that they keep the backdoor open for a change of gauge of the line (or sections of it - to narrow or broad gauge?!), which isn't very likely, after all.