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- ↑ No.5 Pumping Station Yerbillon, 13/11/02, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
- ↑ Baldwin engine off the line at Yerbillon, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
- ↑ "Railway Collision". The Northam Advertiser . Vol. IX, no. 760. Western Australia. 18 June 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 11 March 2019– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Lorman, Edna; Hutchinson, Joan (2004), Yerbillon: recollections of childhood years at Yerbillon, the number 5 pumping station of the Goldfields water supply system in Western Australia during the early years of the 20th century, Perth, W.A.: J. Hutchinson, retrieved 3 March 2016
- ↑ Blundell, Oswald; Hartley, Richard G. (2002), Interview with Oswald Blundell (sound recording), Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply History Project, Water Corporation of Western Australia, retrieved 18 October 2016
- ↑ Geary, Annie Margaret; Barton, Ruth (1980), Interview with Annie Geary (sound recording), retrieved 18 October 2016