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Chaotianmen station

metro station in Chongqing, 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 revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ10566667 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chaotianmen is a station on Line 1 of Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing Municipality, China. It is located in Yuzhong District and opened on 31 December 2020.

Station structure

There are an island platform and two side platforms at this station, which adopts the Spanish solution to separate boarding and alighting passengers.

Editorial summary

“Chaotianmen station” enters the record as metro station in Chongqing, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chaotianmen, station and metro 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—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chaotianmen, station and metro.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Chaotianmen station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chaotianmen, station and metro 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 Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10566667. Authority coordinates are 29.567, 106.582. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Chaotianmen station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chaotianmen station primary sources, Chaotianmen station archive and Chaotianmen 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Chaotianmen 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.