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References
- ↑ "Whitchurch Halt – a 1950's wayside halt". GWR Modelling. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ↑ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 426. OCLC 931112387.
