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Xi'an Beizhan station

metro station in Xi'an, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ10902792 ↗
Source-derived summary

Xi'an Beizhan station (Chinese: 西安北站; lit. 'Xi'an North railway station') is a metro station served by Line 2, Line 4 and Line 14 of Xi'an Metro. The station opened on 16 September 2011.

Editorial summary

“Xi'an Beizhan station” enters the record as metro station in Xi'an, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Xi'an, Beizhan and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Xi'an, Beizhan and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10902792. Authority coordinates are 34.381, 108.934. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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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  • Jurisdictional context
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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 “Xi'an Beizhan station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Xi'an Beizhan station primary sources, Xi'an Beizhan station archive and Xi'an 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

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Xi'an Beizhan 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.