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Main article: WikiProject Australian railways

The purpose of this page is to provide more specific tagging information for Australia, in addition to tabulating data that can be incorporated into OSM or used as a resource. It will be broken down into two main sections. The section "National Overview and General Tagging" gives an introduction and overview to Australian railways/tramways and how to tag them. The section "Individual Railway Overview and Specific Tagging" gives specific railway-by-railway information; this includes a short overview of individual railroads, (OSM-relevant) operating/signal rules, and other tagging dependent on specific railways and tramways. In addition, anomalies from railway standards will be covered throughout this page.

In scope

All government and private railways 610mm (2') gauge and above
All private railways and industrial tramways 610mm (2') gauge and above
All tourist/museum railways and tramways 610mm (2') gauge and above
All government and private street tramways and light rail
Railways and tramways may be open, closed, abandoned or removed
Miniature railways between 127mm (5") and 600mm gauge.

Out of scope for all OpenRailwayMap projects

Aerial cableways
Monorails

National Overview and General Tagging

Key	Value	Property	Used On	Description
`operator=*`	<string>	Operators	Tracks, Buildings, Property (Landuse)	A listing of all the operators of this object. Multiple values are separated with a semicolon (;).
`operator:freight=*`	<string>	Freight Operators	Tracks	These operators can service freight on this line. Multiple values are separated with a semicolon (;).
`operator:passenger=*`	<string>	Passenger Operators	Tracks	These operators can service passengers on this line. Multiple values are separated with a semicolon (;).
`owner=*`	<string>	Owner	Objects with defined Operator	The actual owner of this object.
`ownership=*`	`ownership=private`	Privately owned	Objects with defined Operator/Owner	This object is owned by a private entity; does not have to be for-profit (this may include tourist railways and museums).
	`ownership=federal`	Commonwealth owned	Objects with defined Operator/Owner	This object is owned by the Commonwealth Government. This includes property of government-owned corporations such as the Australian Rail Track Corporation.
	`ownership=state`	State owned	Objects with defined Operator/Owner	This object is owned by a State or Territory Government. This includes property of state government agencies or state-owned corporations.
	`ownership=municipal`	Municipally owned	Objects with defined Operator/Owner	This object is owned by a local government. This includes property of local government agencies or council-owned corporations.

Individual Railroad Overview and Specific Tagging

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Conventional rail

Track owners forming part of or connected to the National Land Transport Network

Adelaide Metro

Airport Link

Airtrain

Australian Rail Track Corporation

Brookfield Rail

Genesee & Wyoming Australia

Public Transport Authority Western Australia

Queensland Rail

Transport Asset Holding Entity (Formerly RailCorp)

Maximum Speed

The maximum speed limits on track ways within the Greater Sydney Region including the Hunter and Illawarra. Information sourced from RailSafe.

Key	Value	Property	Used On	Description
`maxspeed=*`	<Speed>	Maximum speed	Tracks	The maximum speed for general traffic in a track section. In most cases it will be the same as the yellow general sign. Same format as defined on the main tagging page
`maxspeed:medium=*`	<Speed>	Maximum speed for certain passenger trains	Tracks	The maximum speed for certain passenger trains including but not limited to Tangaras, V Sets and K Sets. This speed is indicated by a square blue sign with white text alongside the track. This tag format is based upon a maxspeed vehicle class
`maxspeed:high=*`	<Speed>	Maximum speed for high speed trains	Tracks	The maximum speed for high speed trains including XPTs, Endeavours and Explorers. This speed is indicated by a square white sign with black text alongside the track. This tag format is based upon a maxspeed vehicle class

TasRail

VicTrack

Independent track owners not connected to the National Land Transport Network

BHP Billiton

Hancock Prospecting

Rio Tinto

Fortescue Metals Group

Owners of state government lines now closed

Commonwealth Railways

New South Wales Government Railways

South Australian Railways

Tasmanian Government Railways

Victorian Railways

Western Australian Government Railways

Independent track owners now closed

Silverton Tramway Company

Industrial tramways

Note: many of these were "railways" in all but name.

Queensland council tramways

Aramac Tramway
Ballara Tramway
Beaudesert Shire Tramway
Belmont Tramway
Buderim Tramway
Innisfail Tramway

Queensaland sugar tramways

Street tramways and light rail

Queensland

Brisbane tramways
Gold Coast light rail
Rockhampton tramways

New South Wales

Broken Hill tramways (not including the Silverton Tramway)
Maitland tramways
Newcastle tramways
Sydney tramways
Sydney light rail

South Australia

Adelaide tramways
Victor Harbour tramway

Tasmania

Hobart tramways
Launceston tramways

Victoria

Ballarat tramways
Bendigo tramways
Melbourne tramways

Western Australia

Fremantle tramways
Kangoorlie tramways
Leonora tramways
Perth tramways

Australia/Archive/OpenRailwayMap Tagging