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      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Recently there have been 2 news items totally unrelated to rail and thus have absolutely no place on this rail forum.

    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/goondiwindi-silo-collapse-triggers-farm-safety-warning

    and

    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/buckingham-palace-starts-selling-its-own-gin

    There are quite probably others.

    Why are they here? Can these please be blocked?
    Posted: 22 Jul 2020 16:24

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      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson
    Posted: 22 Jul 2020 16:26
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Here's another:

    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/huawei-banned-from-uk-5g-network-from-2021
    Graham4405

    Nope that technology is deployed on the UK rail network.
    Posted: 22 Jul 2020 16:28
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Here's another:

    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/huawei-banned-from-uk-5g-network-from-2021

    Nope that technology is deployed on the UK rail network.
    bevans
    I know, but I see no reference to that in the article.

    I might just start submitting every news item I can lay my hands on...
    Posted: 22 Jul 2020 16:31
      petan Chief Commissioner

    Location: Waiting to see a zebra using a zebra crossing!
    I might just start submitting every news item I can lay my hands on...
    Graham4405
    Good idea Graham! This one about a new approach to finding underground water on Queensland’s drought-fatigued Granite Belt, is interesting, especially as that area has copped both drought and fires  deep:-new-approach-to-find-underground/12470064
    Posted: 22 Jul 2020 20:02
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    I might just start submitting every news item I can lay my hands on...
    Good idea Graham! This one about a new approach to finding underground water on Queensland’s drought-fatigued Granite Belt, is interesting, especially as that area has copped both drought and fires  deep:-new-approach-to-find-underground/12470064
    petan

    LOL you guys can submit what you like and it will be reviewed as all the articles are.  We also let some fun stuff through too!
    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 15:47
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    LOL you guys can submit what you like and it will be reviewed as all the articles are.
    bevans
    So how did the articles mentioned above get through?

    I'm also a bit miffed that the article I posted in the TL153 thread later appeared in the news as a "Letter from the Editor", complete with my edits for correctness (spelling, punctuation).
    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 22:10
      Dangersdan707 Chief Commissioner

    Location: On a Thing with Internet
    LOL you guys can submit what you like and it will be reviewed as all the articles are.
    So how did the articles mentioned above get through?

    I'm also a bit miffed that the article I posted in the TL153 thread later appeared in the news as a "Letter from the Editor", complete with my edits for correctness (spelling, punctuation).
    Graham4405
    Interesting thats still happening here, how unsurprising though. A seeming repeat of the RRA facebook posts debacle from some time back.

    Anyway, the most irrelevant new item dissections that are being started are ones from overseas with posters being like 'why don't we do this here', 'this show how far backwards we are' and so on. Irrelevant topics to us, relevant to overseas. Those are the ones that grind my gears.
    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 09:19

    Last edited by Dangersdan707 on 24 Jul 2020 09:20; edited 1 time in total
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Geez you guys are harsh.

    So what would you prefer to see?

    By way of stats we have 10,000+ news item reads per week coming from social media links and about the same directly.  What does this mean?  it means people are heavily reading the news articles on this site.

    Anyhow back to the readers.
    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 09:24
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    So what would you prefer to see?
    bevans
    I'd like to see the News feature limited to rail related news or at very least any non-rail related news be categorised as such rather than categorised incorrectly as rail news. Then I can filter it out.

    I don't care about social media, I don't use the likes of Farcebook.
    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:57
      DCook Chief Train Controller

    Location: The standard state
    I must extend this complaint to all those English rail museum articles, why are they on Railpage
    I subscribed to the railway preservation news feed for Australian articles, shouldn't those English articles be under international news
    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 16:53
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    I must extend this complaint to all those English rail museum articles, why are they on Railpage
    DCook

    Railpage is a railway forum, they are railway news articles.
    I subscribed to the railway preservation news feed for Australian articles, shouldn't those English articles be under international news
    DCook

    They would seem to be railway preservation articles, so surely they belong in the Railway Preservation feed? I guess it could be split between Australia and the rest of the world...
    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 21:29
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson
    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:35
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Now we have this in the UK section:
    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/white-house-approves-second-kansas-city-southern-international-bridge
    Rolling Eyes
    Graham4405

    Corrected for USA
    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:37
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Now we have this in the UK section:
    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/white-house-approves-second-kansas-city-southern-international-bridge
    Rolling Eyes

    Corrected for USA
    bevans
    There's a bug then, I'm still seeing it even though I don't subscribe to USA news.
    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 12:44
      TomBTR Chief Train Controller

    Location: near Sydney
    Now we have this in the UK section:
    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/white-house-approves-second-kansas-city-southern-international-bridge
    Rolling Eyes

    Corrected for USA
    There's a bug then, I'm still seeing it even though I don't subscribe to USA news.
    Graham4405
    Shows as USA for me. Someone must have used the Mortein.
    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 20:57
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Now we have this in the UK section:
    https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/white-house-approves-second-kansas-city-southern-international-bridge
    Rolling Eyes

    Corrected for USA
    There's a bug then, I'm still seeing it even though I don't subscribe to USA news.
    Shows as USA for me. Someone must have used the Mortein.
    TomBTR
    As @bevans said he had corrected it to USA, I was seeing it as USA after that, but it was still showing for me when it shouldn't. After logging off and back on it no longer shows.
    Posted: 03 Aug 2020 21:07
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    When you say subscribe please explain?
    Posted: 04 Aug 2020 09:18
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    When you say subscribe please explain?
    bevans
    Under
    News feed
    Personalise your home page news feed by filtering on keyword and/or news topic.

    I don't have a tick in the box beside USA
    Posted: 04 Aug 2020 22:22

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      freightgate Minister for Railways

    Location: Albury, New South Wales
    Some variations on news do exist but also cool to read about other transport projects.

    They do throw in some interesting by the by items too. I actually some here to read the news around rail more than any other site.
    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 19:37
      Dangersdan707 Chief Commissioner

    Location: On a Thing with Internet
    Some variations on news do exist but also cool to read about other transport projects.

    They do throw in some interesting by the by items too. I actually some here to read the news around rail more than any other site.
    freightgate
    However most of the threads started on such topic go like the following.

    'This just shows HOW BACKWARDS and Dated we are and how little we care about Rail. We really NEED to step up our game. Also Why don't we do this here? I think we should.'

    Stay on the topic of the article in its context or just if you want to ask questions and have a discussion in the vain of the comment I paraphrased based on may people here, do it in the armchair section.
    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 20:06
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Some variations on news do exist but also cool to read about other transport projects.

    They do throw in some interesting by the by items too. I actually some here to read the news around rail more than any other site.
    freightgate
    Yep, there is an "Other Transport" news category for these.
    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 21:03
      freightgate Minister for Railways

    Location: Albury, New South Wales
    Are stats available on the readership of news articles in the site would be keen to see.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2020 14:09
      bevans Site Admin

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Are stats available on the readership of news articles in the site would be keen to see.
    freightgate

    Approximately 45,000 reads per week across the news items with 20k of the reads coming from Social Media links.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2020 15:07
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Why is this https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/toot-still-fighting-to-save-the-rails in Queensland Rail News?
    Posted: 25 Aug 2020 23:02

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