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Focus[edit]

Category:Australia articles missing geocoordinate data

Sandboxen[edit]

== User:Dave Rave/sandbox1 Play here
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox2 Sthn Highlands Mines
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox3 Scenic Railway, rough
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox4
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox5 - Mulwaree churches
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox6 - Upper Nepean
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox7 - Picton Loop Line
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox8 - Sydney Water
== User:Dave Rave/sandbox9 - sandbox
== User:Dave Rave/sandboxA - sandboxes sandbox

Bits[edit]

Template:Cite web
Template:NSW GNR
Wikipedia:COORD
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Help:Using the Wayback Machine {{wbm}}

-Template:Wayback- Template:Webarchive
Template:Track gauge
- sg = 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
- ussg = 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
- impsg = 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Rail gauge in Australia - link to [[WP:UNITS}
text–for hyphen - plain text
"hyphen test". pp. 10–20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
"ndash test". pp. 10–20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) - output is the same
trove search the provided wiki link plus ?searchTerm= - is so much better

panoramio view short version
Sydney Opera House - multi map options in infobox

Jamison Valley[edit]

"Jamison Valley". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

"Kedumba Valley". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

"Cedar Valley". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

"Walford Park". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

Approx. GDA94 Lat: -33 42 54 Approx. GDA94 Long: 150 18 04 -33.714987 150.306560

King's Tableland[edit]

Bodington to Queen Victoria Hospital

Modern developments[edit]

western edge road, track to Farm

talk of Kedumba Valley Rd

Blue Labyrinth (wilderness) W5 W5A W5B W5C W5D Erskine Ridge, Dallawang Ridge

McMahon's Point (lookout) into Burragorang Valley

Parish Cooba shows road from valley river up to little bridge on W5C

Parish Kedumba shows road from Pearces Creek up to McMahons Point, and a piece of the upper reach of W5C

parish maps megalong jamieson linden cyclops kedumba cooba speedwell bimlow werriberri burragorang

Trig station points

Burragorang Churches[edit]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_mountains_library_-_local_studies/8410626830/

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/wcaca1952n35314.pdf

Cox's River church
St Paulin's
St Paulinus'

Yerranderie[edit]

new Catholic church, 1910
new CofE church, 1911

Zig Zag[edit]

User:Dave Rave/NSWGR Zig Zag research

Zig Zag text.^[1]

[url=http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/sessionalview/sessional/act/1906-36.pdf Great Western Railway Deviation (Lithgow Zigzag) Act, 1906]

Citing NSW Env using cite web
Helensburgh text.^[2]

NSW Parliament[edit]

old version

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/fe1657bcbd0b25c9ca256df300077f63/05289319e31dba99ca256e450014aecf?OpenDocument

now using

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Pages/profiles/maher_michael-john.aspx

you'll have to search

NSW Heritage[edit]

the web site changes ... old rta/heritage details in the form of

url=http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4300179

are now accessed by using

url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=4300179

check the new listing, in case of not being listed anymore, and you could archiveurl the entry or just change it.

State or territory government historic places[edit]

{{Cite NSW SHR}} – for citing entries in the New South Wales State Heritage Register. This template should only be used for items of State significance
{{Cite QHR}} – for citing entries in the Queensland Heritage Register
{{Heritage Council of Western Australia}} – for citing entries in the Heritage Council of Western Australia Places Database

Adding Heritage[edit]

{{Infobox station
| embedded =
{{Infobox historic site | embed=yes
}}}}

{{Infobox tunnel
| extra =
{{Infobox historic site | embed=yes
}}}}

{{Infobox building
| embedded =
  {{Infobox dam | embed = yes 
  }}
}}

Cites[edit]

"Kedumba". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

Template:Cite web ref example with web url and substitue text ^[1] ^[2]

Template:Infobox Australian place blank

Template:Infobox Australian road

Template:Infobox mountain

Template:Cite book

Template:Citation

Template:Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography

Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography

^ "text style 1 with quotes". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ text style 2 without quotes

austlii[edit]

indexed list of acts

Template:Cite Legislation AU - Austlii
Template:Cite AustLII - Australian Legal Information Institute

text we are trying to cite.<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|gtcra1899n37370|Goulburn to Crookwell Railway Act 1899}}</ref>

test text with ref, shows html page with pdf embedded.^[1]^[2]

- NEEDS WORK

BS doesn't work FARK

text we are trying to cite.<ref>[http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/gtcra1899n37370.pdf Goulburn to Crookwell Railway Act 1899]</ref>

test text with ref, shows just the pdf.^[3]

Holbrook text at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/ctgra1900n85334/ works at
<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU | NSW | num_act |ctgra1900n85334| Culcairn to Germanton Railway Act 1900}}</ref>

QPR[edit]

I was going to do something here but I think it's been fixed

Template:Sfn[edit]

Using the shortened footnote template when the author is not known[edit]

Template {{Sfn}} links on the |year= and |last= parameters. This is set by the |ref=harv parameter. This can be changed if the authors name is not known by setting a new ref parameter using the {{sfnref}} template: |ref={{sfnref|xxx|yyy}}

The Sun is pretty big,{{sfn|Miller|2001|p=23}} but the Moon is not so big.{{sfn|Brown|2000|p=46}} The Sun is also quite hot.{{sfn|Miller|2001|p=46}} The Moon is also quite cool.{{sfn|Scientific American|78|p=47a}} == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == *{{citation | last=Brown | first=R | year=2000 | title=Size of the Moon | magazine=Scientific American | issue=78 | volume=51}}. *{{cite book| title=Size of the Moon| ref={{sfnref|Scientific American|78}} | year=2000 | magazine=Scientific American | issue=78 | volume=51}}. *{{cite book | ref=harv | last=Miller | first=E | year=2001 | title=The Sun | publisher=Academic Press }}

Template:Harvard citation documentation#Shortened footnote

also harv and harvnb can be used in ref /ref to use a name ref

Use[edit]

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=}}
{{Use Australian English|date=}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Use American English|date=June 2024}}

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Hidden[edit]

Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap

Download coordinates as:

testing hidden text, to include unwieldy GPS notes while not displaying them

Hidden

16°55′30″S 145°46′15″E / 16.9251°S 145.7707°E16°53′13″S 145°41′48″E / 16.8870°S 145.6967°E

Hidden begin

16°55′30″S 145°46′16″E / 16.9251°S 145.7710°E / -16.9251; 145.7710 (Cairns other station)16°53′13″S 145°41′52″E / 16.8870°S 145.6977°E / -16.8870; 145.6977 (Redlynch other station)

Maplink[edit]

hmmm, why does this work, or not ?

| image2   ={{maplink
|frame=yes
|frame-width=260
|frame-height=280
|frame-align=center
|zoom=13
|type=shape
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Making new pages - working on[edit]

Making new pages - Sydney Water[edit]

NSWGR links[edit]

Template:Rwsa
Template:StnlnkA|Lucasville John Lucas (Australian politician)
sg
ussg
impsg

New Railway Pages[edit]

Using Wikipedia:Notability (Railway lines and stations)#Stations I won't make an entry for each station, though it has managed to pass for some, so I'll expand the listing for the line that contains the stations.

ARTC reports ...

A neat entry with dates, mileages and lengths of everything.^[1]

User:Dave Rave/Barbers Creek railway bridge
User:Dave Rave/Bluff River railway bridge, Sandy Flat
User:Dave Rave/Bolivia railway station
User:Dave Rave/Railway bridges in New South Wales
User:Dave Rave/Cooma Monaro Railway
User:Dave Rave/Cowra railway station
User:Dave Rave/Cuttings in New South Wales
User:Dave Rave/Dorrigo railway station
User:Dave Rave/Glenreagh railway station
User:Dave Rave/Gundagai railway station
User:Dave Rave/Gunning railway station
User:Dave Rave/Holbrook railway station, New South Wales
User:Dave Rave/Inverell railway station
User:Dave Rave/South Australian Railways 300 class
User:Dave Rave/Sydney Railway Company
User:Dave Rave/Warialda railway station
User:Dave Rave/sandbox1 general and Echo Point
User:Dave Rave/sandbox2 Southern Highlands Mines like LKnapman us working on
User:Dave Rave/sandbox3 scenic railway
User:Dave Rave/sandbox4 Wiki examples
User:Dave Rave/sandbox5 Rural Hospital of WA
User:Dave Rave/NSWGR Tunnels

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References[edit]

^ "RAILWAYS IN BRITISH POSSESSIONS". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXXV, no. 12, 103. New South Wales, Australia. 3 March 1877. p. 8. Retrieved 31 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

Bibliography[edit]

text for bibliography starts with <ref>{{Citation | author1=Oberg, Leon | title=Locomotives of Australia, 1854 to 2007 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8453422 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=Rosenberg Publishing | edition=4th | isbn=978-1-877058-54-7 |pages=261-263}}</ref> so there

Oberg, Leon (2007), Locomotives of Australia, 1854 to 2007 (4th ed.), Rosenberg Publishing, pp. 261–263, ISBN 978-1-877058-54-7

My Library[edit]

Rail[edit]

Bayley, William A. (William Alan) (1972). Lapstone Zig Zag Railway. Austrail Publications. ISBN 0-909597-07-3. - 2 copies
Bayley, William A. (William Alan) (1973). Lithgow Zig Zag Railway : Blue Mountains, New South Wales (3rd ed.). Austrail Publications. ISBN 0-909597. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help) - that's a short isbn #
Bayley, William A. (William Alan) (1979). Sydney in the SteamTime. Austrail Pubs. ISBN 0-909597-22-7.
Bentley, James; Belbin, Phillip (1988). Black smoke, blue mountains : the great Zig Zag railway. Robert Brown & Associates. ISBN 978-0-949267-58-0.
Bentley, James; Bentley, Judy (1992). The Lithgow Zig Zag (2009 ed.). Pictorial Press. ISBN 1-876561-49-1.
Butcher, Richard K (2004). Murphy, Lorraine (ed.). The great Eveleigh railway workshops : a personal reminiscence (1st ed.). Richard Butcher. ISBN 978-0-646-43400-1.
Langdon, Mark (2006). Conquering the Blue Mountains. Eveleigh Press. ISBN 978-1-876568-30-6.
Longworth, Jim; Australian Railway Historical Society. New South Wales Division (July 2008). Boilers, Beauforts and Bogies : Chullora locomotive and rolling stock workshops, 1913-2000. Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division (published 2009). ISBN 978-0-9805106-1-4.
Love, Ray; Langdon, Mark (2017). Byways of steam 31 : on the railways of New South Wales. Eveleigh Press. ISBN 978-1-876568-46-7.
McNicol, Steve (1986). Beyer Peacock in South Australia. Railmac Publications. ISBN 0-949817-57-0. - 2 copies
McNicol, Steve (1992). Yass railway portfolio. Railmac Publications. ISBN 0-949817-77-5.
Newland, John R (2008). The Goondah-Burrinjuck Railway : the story of the 2-foot gauge railway together with a description of the construction of Burrinjuck Dam, and of the people who built the dam (3rd ed.). Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division. ISBN 978-0-9805106-2-1.
Reid, John, (collator.); Tumba Rail (issuing body.); Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage (issuing body) (2013). Tumbarumba line in retrospect. [Wagga Wagga, New South Wales] [Tumba Rail & Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage]. Retrieved 21 November 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Ellis, Denny; Australian Railway Historical Society. New South Wales Division; Ellis, Denny (2005). A railwayman's journey. Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division. ISBN 0-9757870-0-4.

Other[edit]

Duvollet, Mindah (2016). A place called Weatherboard : reminiscences of Wentworth Falls (Edition 2 ed.). Wentworth Falls, NSW Blue Mountains Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-9944688-0-2.
Pells, P. J. N; Hammon, Philip J (2009). The burning mists of time : a technological and social history of mining in Katoomba. WriteLight. ISBN 978-0-9775639-6-8.

[1] "Great Western Railway Deviation (Lithgow Zigzag) Act, 1906" (PDF).

[2] "Heritage NSW".

[3] "text style 1 with quotes". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[4] text style 2 without quotes

[5] Goulburn to Crookwell Railway Act 1899 (NSW)

[6] tcra1899n37370/ num_act.html [ gtcra1899n37370] NSW num_act

[7] Goulburn to Crookwell Railway Act 1899

[8] "RAILWAYS IN BRITISH POSSESSIONS". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXXV, no. 12, 103. New South Wales, Australia. 3 March 1877. p. 8. Retrieved 31 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

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