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326:"New Services from 1 June"
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344:Australian Railway History
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313:"More Rail Services End"
192:From 1957, the Sydney to
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274:Cooke, David (1984).
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359:January 1989 page 20
304:August 1985 page 229
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70:State Rail Authority
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355:"Last Passengers"
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346:April 2012
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564:The Fish
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