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- ↑ "XPT Washplant Officially Opened" Railway Digest July 1994 page 8
- ↑ "Locomotive, Diesel Shunting 7301". Department of Environment & Heritage. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2024.