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References and Bibliography

Some of the sources used to verify the information contained in these pages are:

ah
Correspondence with Alan Hegler.
ARHS-bul
Australian Railway Historical Society; Bulletin; various editions
ausrollingstock
Yahoo group "ausrollingstock" at groups.yahoo.com/group/ausrollingstock/.
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Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division); Newsrail; monthly periodical; various editions.
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Australian Railway Historical Society (South Australian Division); Recorder; monthly periodical.
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Baggage, Jack and Barrington, Rodney; The History of Pichi Richi Railway; Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society Inc; 1984.
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Banger, Chris and Medlin, Peter; Ninety years of The E Cars - Part 2; Newsrail; September 1996.
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Beckhaus, John; Commonwealth Railways Passenger Cars; Modelling the Railways of SA Convention.
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Beckhaus, John; CR Passenger fleet; Unpublished Draft.
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Beckhaus, John; SAR Broad Gauge Passenger fleet; Unpublished Draft.
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Beckhaus, John; SAR Narrow Gauge Passenger fleet; Unpublished Draft.
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Beckhaus, John; SAR Railcar fleet; Unpublished Draft.
blc
Details extracted from Barry Lewis Collection records at National Railway Museum.
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Mack, David; Little Coastal Railways of the Adelaide plains, Hyde Park Press; 1986.
cc
Correspondence with Chris Ca[enter.
CP_mm.yyyy
Catchpoint Magazine edition mm.yyyy (month.year). Catchpoint is produced by the Port Dock Station Railway Museum.
cr_nnnn
Commonwealth Railways Central Office File nnnn. - most of these are stored at the National Archives of Australia series B300.
cr_plan
Commonwealth Railways Rollingstock Plan.
db
Correspondence with Dylan Badenoch.
dc
Correspondence with Doug Colquhoun.
dc
Correspondence with Doug Johnson.
dp
Parsons D.B; 3'6" Gauge Passenger Rolling Stock of South Australian Railways; Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin; 1958.
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Fitzgerald, Anthony; Australian National's GM Class; Australian Model Railway Magazine, April 1997.
GA
General Appendix.
gh
Correspondence with Geoff Hann. .
jb
Correspondence with John Beckhaus.
jbo
Correspondence with John Bollans.
jbo
Correspondence with John Green.
jh_nnl
Jim Harvey The Never-Never Line, The story of the North Australia Railway.
gp
Correspondence with Gerald Petrie.
GSR
Great Southern Railway Literature and Press Releases.
hw
Correspondence with Hugh Williams.
kb
Correspondence with Kym Bird, also included reference to historic articles
md
Michael Dix correspondence.
md
Correspondence with Matthew Reid of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
MN
Monthly Notice - The Commonwealth Railways issues published notices on a monthly basis to staff.
MERM
Mile End Railway Museum
NAA
National Archives of Australia - normally will be followed by a series reference number.
newsrail
Newsrail Magazine edition mm.yyyy (month.year).
NRM
National Railway Museum correspondence.
ph
Correspondence with Paul Quinn.
ph
Correspondence with Peter Hinksman.
pk
Correspondence with Peter Knife, or referenced in his book "Peninsula Pioneer"
pl
Correspondence with Phil Leonard.
pm
Correspondence with Peter Medlin.
pmi
Correspondence with Peter Michalak.
pq
Correspondence with Paul Quinn.
pr
Correspondence with Philippa Rogers.
PTT
Public Time Table.
railsa
RailSA Australia Forums - formerly at "www.railsa.org"
rpf
Railpage Australia Forums at www.railpage.com.au.
RRC
South Australian, Commonwealth and Australian National Railways Rollingstock Record Cards. These were large cardboard cards, one per vehicle, maintained by the workshops that showed all major alterations and repairs done to that vehicle. They are generally a lot more accurate than the computerised "TIMS" records. See the "TIMS" reference for more details.
SAR
South Australian Railways record or docket reference.
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South Australian Railways; Annual report to Parliament; South Australian Parliamentary Paper No.47.
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South Australian Railways; Rollingstock Record Cards; Port Dock Museum Collection.
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South Australian Railways Institute; South Australian Railways Institute Magazine; periodical; various editions.
sf
Correspondence with Steve Ford.
sh
Correspondence with Stuart Hicks.
sm
Correspondence with Steven Moritz.
SN
Special Notice.
st
Correspondence with Simon Thompson.
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Smith, Roderick Named Carriages; Rail news Victoria; March 1998
th
Correspondence with Trevor Horman.
TIMS/WMS
Information extracted from Australian Nationals Computerised Traffic Information Management System (TIMS) The records that have been extracted from TIMS, and the Computerised Wagon Monitoring System (WMS), are not always very accurate. Frequently significant alterations did not make it into the system. An example is the upgrade of "Ghan" cars. These cars only show the date of the work order for modifications being issued in 1988 with very little information about when the actual work took place. For some cars this was not until 18 months later. Port Augusta still maintained paper based manual rollingstock record cards of changes long after they supposedly moved over to "TIMS", so generally "TIMS" shows the date the work was approved/proposed rather than when it was actually carried out.
Vline-news
State Transport Authority of Victoria; V/LINE News, journal.
wh
Correspondence with Wayne Hoskin.
WN
Weekly Notice.
WTT
Working Time Table.