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- ↑ "Alloa Junction on 25 inch map Stirlingshire XXIV.2 (St. Ninians)". National Library of Scotland. 1862. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ↑ "Grand Cheap Pleasure Excursion" . Stirling Observer. 12 June 1851. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Bradshaw, George (1855). Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock.
- ↑ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. pp. 5 & 70 (refs 0151 & 3083). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.