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- ↑ The station name is sometimes quoted with -by-the-Sea, and sometimes without. Quick (2022) records that the company timetables, Bradshaw, and tickets were all without and that it was mainly the Railway Clearing House that used it in their Handbook of Railway Stations, [1] [2] the station running in boards were all without, [3]
- 1 2 3 Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 332. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- 1 2 The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. p. 392. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
- ↑ "Newbiggin station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ↑ "Newbiggin station on OS 25 inch map Northumberland (Old Series) LXV.10 (Ashington; Newbiggin By The Sea; Woodhorn Demesne)". National Library of Scotland. 1905. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ↑ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 40. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
- ↑ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 32 (ref 1523). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
- ↑ "Northumberland Line Station Guides: Ashington". Nothumberland County Council. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
