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- ↑ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 234. OCLC 931112387.
- ↑ "Adwalton Wakefield". Lost Railways West Yorkshire. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
