RailZone Australia

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Skip to our 'about us' page, find out how to make a donation, or read on... RailZone Australia provides a portal to electronic web-based forums, mailing-lists, etc. for the discussion of any matter relating to rail transport and railway modelling. This website also acts as a disseminator of and sharing resource for data and information via those forums and also via image galleries and links to other websites which are designed to further assist railway enthusiasts and railway modellers. Whilst our website is proudly located in Australia, we aim to support rail enthusiasts and modellers everywhere regardless of location... The key purpose of the resources located here at RailZone Australia are to help you raise and discuss railway-related subject matter since sharing of skills, experience and information are how we can all learn more about railways and associated interests. Unlike another forum-based railway enthusiast site (based in Melbourne, Australia) which is administered to de-value diversity in the rail enthusiast community and discourage genuine grass-roots involvement with railway transport from all walks of life (based on the site owner's mission statement), we are the opposite. Without bona-fide grass-roots enthusiasm from rail enthusiasts and railway modellers in all places where railways exist, the railway enthusiast and modelling community can't and won't continue to grow and develop. We will never ban people from using the resources provided by our website providing that every visitor to our website demonstrates the same level of courtesy and respect to other people that they would expect other people to show to them! We will never bombard you with annoying banner advertising for any form of commercial and/or pornographic profit-making scam promoted through cash-for-click style money-grabbing websites, or for other things which are irrelevant to the core purpose of our website. We may show you links or banners promoting things that are directly relevant to this aims of this website and which are of interest to the railway enthusiast and/or railway modelling community at large, but we will never allow or permit our website to be used for blatant commercial advertising. Our website is not geared around being dependent on commercial advertising and sponsorship for it's long-term survival - that would be completely against the true spirit of the Internet which is for fair and equal sharing of information to everyone who is interested. We are happy to accept genuine offers of sponsorship (remember to 'un-poison' the email address!) and will look at each offer of sponsorship on it's merits. As we are based in Australia, and are looking to offer support primarily to the railway enthusiast and railway modelling community in Australia and New Zealand, any offers of sponsorship emanating from organisations in these two countries will have a higher priority. Our website is not devoted to pushing quality over quantity (or the other way around) since both need to balance each other out. If we took a high-brow approach to the railway enthusist and railway modelling community and started making judgements on moral grounds we would not create much interest except to make people annoyed and go somewhere else to share they're skills and experiences. The amount of 'quality vs quantity' in any particular thread or discussion in any of the forums or with the material uploaded into the galleries depends entirely on you as as a contributor - we don't set any moral standards which you must follow as we want the site to be open and available to all railway enthusiasts and railway modellers without shutting our or alienating anyone who is genuinely interested. Otherwise our website cannot be fair and equitable to as many people as possible. Our web-based forums are unmoderated and open to all railway enthusiasts and railway modellers worldwide. If you have a railway-related website of your own, you are welcome to mention it to other people and share details about it. We will not censure you because you want to promote another railway enthusiast website, nor will we censure you from talking about 'taboo' subjects that are specific to railways such as derailments, incidents in which persons have been fatally injured, etc. or even discussions about matters such as terrorism, security, etc. In short, RailZone Australia isn't some sort of railway-specific conservapedia which wants to tell you how to think! Note that this website is reachable using a few different site names. The main ones are: www.railzone.org - forums.railzone.org - galleries.railzone.org