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- ↑ "Trains With Names" . The Scotsman. Scotland. 4 April 1936. Retrieved 22 November 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Rambling Bens and glens of Easter Ross" . Birmingham Daily Post. England. 5 September 1964. Retrieved 23 November 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.