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- ↑ "Tramway Review: The Historical Journal of the LRTA". Light Rail Transit Association . Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ Claydon, Geoffrey (June 1997). "Sixty Years of the LRTA". Light Rail & Modern Tramway, pp. 227–228.
- ↑ "A new look for TAUT – and a new publisher" (also concerning Tramway Review). Tramways & Urban Transit , July 2007, p. 244.