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- ↑ Solomontown Railway Station Adelaide Advertiser 14 July 1937
- ↑ Port Pirie Archived 2016-02-28 at the Wayback Machine National Railway Museum
- ↑ Newland, Andrew; Quinlan, Howard (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 57. ISBN 0-909650-49-7.