Zig Zag Railway guide books, 1992, 1997, 1999.
The Lithgow Zig Zag Railway, 1976, 3rd ed., Zig Zag Trust and Zig Zag Railway.
Colonial Engineer, John Whitton 1819-1898, and the Building of Australia's Railways, Robert Lee, 2000, Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division.
Black Smoke, Blue Mountains, James Bentley, 1988, Robert Brown & Associates.
Full Steam across the Mountains, Phil Belbin & David Burke, 1981, Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division.
Making the Railways, David Burke, 1995, State Library of NSW Press, Sydney
The Greatest Public Work, The New South Wales Railway - 1848 to 1889, Robert Lee, 1988, Public works Department, NSW History Project.
Thirty-five Years on the New South Wales Railways, the work of the late Mr. John Whitton, CE, Engineer-in-Chief of the New South Wales Railways, John Rae, Sydney 1898.
The Great Zig Zag Railway at Lithgow, William A. Bayley, 1977, Austrail Publications, Bulli.
Lithgow Zig Zag Railway, William A. Bayley, Austrail Publications, Bulli.
Blue Mountains Railways, William A. Bayley, 1980, Locomotion Productions.
Lapstone Zig Zag Railway, William A. Bayley, 1975, Austrail Publications, Bulli.
Bridges Down Under, Don Fraser, 1995, Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division.
Along Parallel Lines, A History of the Railways of New South Wales, John Gunn, 1989, Melbourne University Press.
C17 An Ipswich Portfolio, John Burgess, 1982, Railmac Last of the Tribe, Ken Mitchell, 1986, ARHS QLD.
Brunswick Street, Bowen Hills & Beyond. Railways of Northern Suburbs of Brisbane, John Kerr, 1988, ARHS QLD.
Triumph of Narrow Gauge, History of Queensland Railways, John Kerr, 1990, Boolarong Publications.
Steam Locos & Railcars of S.A. Railways, by Fluck, Sampson & Bird, 1986, Mile End Railway Museum.
Narrow Gauge Memories, The Locomotives, Steve McNicol, 1993, Railmac.
Locomotives of Australia, Leon Oberg, Kangaroo Press, 1996.
An Australian Diesel Locomotive Pocketbook, Peter J. Clark, 1973, ARHS NSW
Viaducts on Australian Railways, William A.Bayley, Austrail Publications,Bulli.
All Stations West, The story of the Sydney-Perth standard gauge railway. G.H.Fearnside, 1970, Haldane Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.
Passenger Cars of the NSWR, L.A.Clark, 1972, Traction Publications.
Rails in the Hills, A History of the railway from Midland to Karragullen, WA 1891 - 1949, E.G. Webb, 1996, Kalamunda & Districts Historical Society Inc.
Locomotives in the Tropics - Vol. 2 by John Armstrong, ARHS, Queensland Division, 1994
Railway News, NSW School Railway Clubs Association. Nov. 1970, April 1988.
Zig Zag Railway archives.
Railway Stations and Industrial siding in the Lithgow Valley, Allan Gargill, 1977, Lithgow District Historical Society.
Nothing Like it in the World, The Men who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000.
Conquering the Blue Mountains, 2006, Mark Langdon, Eveleigh Press