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- 1 2 Metropolitan Meat Platforms railway station NSWrail.net, accessed 18 August 2024
- ↑ Olympic Park railway line NSWrail.net, accessed 19 August 2024
- ↑ METROPOLITAN MEAT INDUSTRY BOARD Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW: 1901-2001). Trove. National Library of Australia. 15 June 1917, accessed 18 August 2024
- ↑ "Sydney-Newcastle Suburban & Interurban Timetable" State Rail Authority of New South Wales June 1984 page 120
- ↑ Abattoirs railway line NSWrail.net, accessed 19 August 2024
- ↑ "Goodbye Tin Hare" Railway Digest February 1985 page 40
- ↑ New South Wales railways : diagram map, 1951 / issued by the Commissioner for Railways. Trove, National Library of Australia. 1951, accessed 19 August 2024