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- Notes
- 1 2 Quick (2009), p. 243.
- ↑ Hartless, Adrian (April 2019). "2.Sandbach Route". Lines North of Stoke to Crewe, Congleton and Leek. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781910356296.
XXI.The goods station was north of the passanger station and closed from 4th May 1964.
- ↑ Jeuda (2012), p. 33.
- ↑ Quick (2009), p. 204.
- 1 2 Jeuda (2012), p. 34.
- ↑ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 304.
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