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Proposed change/move

Latest comment: 6 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

The parent categories - and the categories in the US and UK have rail freight.

Freight rail as found in Australian categories is not consistent any other usage in similar categories.

So in process of changing, and moving all into different word order.

Allowing for response for short time. JarrahTree 23:55, 6 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

In the event of no responses will basically create the new category, and change article cats, and then put this up for deletion, unless there are other comments or arguments available for the eccentric wording. JarrahTree 03:54, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Netural-->Support. I generally prefer Freight Rail as this is generally how it is used in industry (refer for example https://www.artc.com.au/projects/freight-on-rail-group/), but there is conflict too (eg http://www.forg.com.au). Considering we dont have freight shipping (it is sea freight) and freight air (we have air freight) then this is helping to move toward a consistent approach across the industry then I support it. However, the opposite use, Passenger rail, is perhaps going to pose issues as we would never say rail passenger services etc. James.au (talk) 00:40, 8 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

reply - thanks for that - it is more to be in line with 'found' categories - father, grandfather - JarrahTree 04:36, 8 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

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