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Notes
- 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 13.
- ↑ Thomas & Paterson 1984, p. 73.
- ↑ "Abington station on OS 25inch map Lanarkshire XLIII.13 (Crawford; Crawfordjohn; Lamington and Wandel)". National Library of Scotland. 1910. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ↑ RCH (1904) 1970, p. 13.
- ↑ Bradshaw 2012, pp. 96 & 97.
- ↑ McRae 1997, p. 22.
- ↑ Hurst 1992, p. 33 (ref 1579).
- ↑ British Railways Board 1974, p. 25.
- ↑ Yonge 2001, p. 10b.
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Further reading
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.