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- ↑ Monarto to Sedan Railway Adelaide Advertiser 11 October 1919
- ↑ Sedan South Australian History
- ↑ Port Augusta track extension project Pichi Richi Railway
- ↑ "SA Murray Lands Renaissance" Railway Digest page 15
- ↑ "South Australia" Railway Digest July 1996 page 37
- ↑ Newland, Andrew; Quinlan, Howard (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. pp. 53, 56. ISBN 0-909650-49-7.
- ↑ Monarto South - Monteith track diagram SA Track & Signal