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References
- 1 2 3 "Station Name: Carr Mill". Disused Stations. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ↑ Quick 2009, p. 116.
- ↑ "Ambitious proposals for a new railway station at Woodchurch". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ↑ Bowman, Jamie (5 March 2024). "Woodchurch to get new railway station under Mayor's election pledge". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
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- Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
