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- ↑ Railway Museum celebrates 90th anniversary of building Archived 28 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine Port Lincoln Times 2 May 2017
- ↑ Eyre Peninsula Railway Preservation Society Track & Signal May 2014 page 69
- ↑ Going Loco Eyre Peninsula Railway Preservation Society
- ↑ Eyre Peninsula News Catch Point issue 254 November 2019 page 10
- ↑ GWA donates locomotive to Port Lincoln Railway Museum Railway Digest January 2020 page 51