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Notes
- ↑ Mixed trains at this time meant a mixture of first and second class carriages and the train probably stopped at every station. By contrast first class trains has only first class carriages and stopped at only first class stations
Citations
- ↑ Osborne & Osborne 1838, p. 43.
- ↑ Whishaw 1842, p. 128.
- ↑ "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Cheshire XLIX.7 (Minshull Vernon; Tetton; Warmingham; Wimboldsley)". National Library of Scotland. 1909. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ↑ Drake 1837, p. 96.
- ↑ Osborne & Osborne 1838, pp. 66-67 & 86.
- ↑ Bradshaw 2012, pp. 34–37.
- ↑ "What the railways are doing". The Railway Magazine (343): 77. January 1926.
- ↑ "The why and the wherefore". The Railway Magazine. 85 (506): 140. August 1939.
- ↑ Quick 2022, p. 318.
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