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References
- ↑ 1st station page on disused-stations.org.uk
- ↑ 2nd station page on disused-stations.org.uk
- ↑ Mention of the Dinorwic Railway on a Welsh slate mining website
- ↑ Information on the Padarn Railway on the Penmorfa website
- ↑ Jones, Mark: Lost Railways of North Wales, page 152. Countryside Books, 2008
- ↑ Website listing many signal boxes in the UK
- ↑ The station's listed building entry on the register
