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- ↑ "Requiem for a Mail" Railway Digest January 1989 page 14
- ↑ "Last Passengers" Railway Digest January 1989 page 20
- ↑ "Melbourne-Sydney Standard Gauge Relief Trains" Australian Railway History April 2012