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References
- ↑ Contracts & Tenders Railway Gazette 9 January 1953 page 53
- ↑ Pakistan Order Nine Australian-Built Diesel Locos: Similar to CR Units Railway Transportation February 1953 page 25
- ↑ £1m locomotive order Daily Telegraph 27 August 1953 page 3
- ↑ Australia's First Export Order for Diesel Power to go to Pakistan Railway Transportation October 1953 page 38
- ↑ Pakistan's CLP15 Class Locomotives Newsrail August 2014 pages 236-238