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Basirhat railway station

Railway Station in West Bengal, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ56278594 ↗
Source-derived summary

Basirhat railway station(BSHT) is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system and operated by Eastern Railway. It is located at Basirhat on the Barasat–Hasnabad line in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Basirhat Station Map

"Basirhat Railway station" (Map). Google Maps.

Editorial summary

“Basirhat railway station” enters the record as railway Station in West Bengal, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Basirhat, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Basirhat, railway and station.
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Why this record matters

“Basirhat railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Basirhat, railway and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56278594. Authority coordinates are 22.650, 88.869. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Basirhat railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Basirhat railway station primary sources, Basirhat railway station archive and Basirhat research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Basirhat railway station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Basirhat railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.