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- ↑ "Rugby Locomotive Testing Station". Traintesting. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ↑ https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-03/Rugby%20Locomotive%20Testing%20Station%20List.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ Locomotive Testing Station (1948). British Pathé. 13 April 2014. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022– via YouTube.