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- ↑ "Satellite View - near former Temple Court railway station". Google Maps. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
- ↑ "The Shale Mine - THE ERECTION OF RAILWAY LINE". Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette. 6 December 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 30 August 2022.