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- ↑ "Federal City Express" The Sydney Morning Herald 17 September 1936
- 1 2 Stokes, HJW (1984). Railways of the Canberra and Monaro Districts. Canberra: Australian Railway Historical Society, ACT Division. pp. 20, 21.