User:Wongm

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My nickname is wongm.

I am from Victoria, Australia.

I am studying Telecommunications Technology / Computer Science and Software Development at Swinburne University of Technology.

Check out what music I listen to via the audioscrobbler project at http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/wongm/

I like both trains and photography - I have a stack of railway photographs at http://wongm.fotopic.net/

I have also been working on a history of the railways of Geelong as well - http://www.railgeelong.com/ - I intende to work some of the info into here as well.

Contents 1 Userboxes 2 Manifesto 3 Pages I've done 4 Maps 5 Frequently used references

[edit] Userboxes

Oooooh:

[edit] Manifesto

• Everyone in rail seems obsessed with passenger rail. Freight rail is what pays the bills kids.
• By extension, every article on a railway line seems to be based around a list of passenger trains that run on it.
• I need to go take the gas axe and a bunch of thermit rail joiner kits over to Rail transport in Victoria and associated lines.

[edit] Pages I've done

Some of the more notable creations and major edits...

• Energy in Victoria, and the associated navbox, former power stations, and former utility companies.

• cleaning up and expanding Geelong, Victoria and a lot of subpages...
  • Geelong Gas Company
  • Geelong Power Station, Victoria
  • Geelong city centre, Victoria
  • City of Greater Geelong
  • Westfield Bay City
  • Market Square Shopping Centre
  • Market Square, Geelong
  • Belmont, Victoria - a real biggie, almost bigger than the town article...
  • Corio Bay
  • Waterfront_Geelong
  • Point Henry smelter
  • Waurn Ponds, Victoria
  • Searoad - the car ferry
  • Highton, Victoria
  • Grovedale, Victoria
  • Bright and Hitchcocks
  • Corio Oval
  • Geelong Art Gallery
  • Geelong Performing Arts Centre
  • Geelong Post Office
  • Geelong Racecourse
  • Geelong Showgrounds
  • Geelong Town Hall
  • Johnstone Park, Geelong
  • Kardinia Park
  • Osborne House (Geelong)
  • T & G Building, Geelong

• Trains - cleanup of Rail transport in Victoria (this) and Railways in Melbourne (this) and subpages, as well as making or expanding heaps
  • Great Northern Rail Services
  • Victorian Railways
  • El Zorro (Railway)
  • Specialised Container Transport
  • Public Transport Corporation
  • Freight Australia

• Flemington Racecourse railway line, Melbourne: merge in stupid station stubs.
  • Railways in Melbourne: rewrite history by time not line.

• T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society - because of the...
  • T & G Building, Geelong

[edit] Maps

A few maps I have made...

The route of the former Rosstown Railway, Melbourne	Victorian network railway map	North Melbourne railway station diagram	Richmond railway station diagram
Inner Circle railway line diagram	Freight railways in Melbourne

[edit] Frequently used references

<ref name="newsrail-line">{{cite journal | year = 1990 | month = March | title = Tracks Across the State | author = Sid Brown | journal = Newsrail | publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) | pages = pages 71-76 }}</ref>

<ref name="vrhist" >{{cite web | title = VR timeline | work = http://www.victorianrailways.net/ | publisher = Mark Bau | url = http://www.victorianrailways.net/vr%20history/history.html | format = HTML | accessdate = 2008-02-05 }}</ref>

<ref name="sig" >{{cite book | last = Fisher | first = Peter | title = Victorian Signalling: by Accident or Design? | publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) | year = 2007 | isbn = 978 1 92089 250 0 }}</ref>

<ref name="rg">{{cite web | title = Geelong Line | work = Rail Geelong | publisher = Marcus Wong | url = http://www.railgeelong.com/lineguide.php?line=geelong | format = HTML | accessdate = 2008-02-05 }}</ref>

<ref name="ttt">{{cite book | last = Fiddian | first = Mark | title = Trains, Tracks, Travelers. A history of the Victorian Railways | publisher = South Eastern Independent Newspapers | year = 1997 | isbn = 1 875475 12 5 }}</ref>

<ref name="nrs">{{cite journal | year = 1997 | month = March | title = Rail Passenger Service Withdrawals Since 1960 | author = Chris Banger | journal = Newsrail | publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) | pages = pages 77 - 82 }}</ref>