Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: There were always plans to build the line to Darwin , but by the time the line to Alice Springs was built , " The Ghan " was losing money .
Output:
Although there were plans from the beginning to extend the line to Darwin , by the time the extension to Alice Springs had been completed , " The Ghan " was losing money and the plans for further extension to Darwin were suspended indefinitely .