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References
- ↑ "Goodbye TPO" Railway Digest October 1985 page 292
- ↑ "North & North Coast Timetable Changes" Railway Digest October 1985 page 296
- ↑ "The Last Up North Coast Mail" Railway Digest January 1986 page 25
- ↑ "Melbourne-Sydney Standard Gauge Relief Trains" Australian Railway History April 2012