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- ↑ Market Railway Gazette International February 1972 page 47
- ↑ TGR Orders Massive Power for Bell Bay Line Railway Transportation June 1972 page 9
- ↑ Oberg, Leon (1984). Locomotives of Australia 1850s-1980s. Frenchs Forest: Reed Books. pp. 284–285. ISBN 0-730100-05-7.
- ↑ First TGR Super Power Locomotive Delivered Railway Transportation January 1973 page 3
- ↑ Tasmanian Railways: 150 years in the making - Part 2 Australian Railway History issue 1014 August 2032 pages 13/14
- ↑ Tasmania Railway Digest June 1985 page 183
- ↑ Z Class Rail Tasmania
- ↑ Tasrail Loco Renumbering Railway Digest October 1998 page 36
- ↑ Heavy maintenance on new locomotives The Q Train