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- ↑ "Laura-Booleroo Centre Railway". Mount Barker Courier And Onkaparinga And Gumeracha Advertiser . Vol. 30, no. 1539. South Australia. 15 April 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 27 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "A New Railway". The Advertiser . Vol. LVIII, no. 17, 712. South Australia. 22 July 1915. p. 10. Retrieved 27 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
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- ↑ GLADSTONE AND LAURA RAILWAy 7 June 1884
- ↑ G F Vincent. "South Australia's Mixed Gauge Muddle" (PDF). National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide. pp. 8–10. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Gladstone's Railway History". Gladstone, Southern Flinders Ranges, SA. August 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2016.