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- ↑ "Disused Stations: Knaresborough Hay Park Lane". Disused Stations. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 253. OCLC 931112387.
