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Cuijk railway station

railway station in the Netherlands

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2478972 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cuijk is a railway station located in Cuijk, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 June 1883 and is located on the Maaslijn (Nijmegen–Venlo railway). The train services are operated by Arriva, a British multinational public transport company.

Train services

The following local train services call at this station:

Stoptrein: Nijmegen–Venlo–Roermond

Stoptrein: Nijmegen–Venray

Bus services

91: Haps–Mill–Odiliapeel–Volkel–Uden, operated by Arriva.

92: Grave–Mill–Haps–Cuijk–Oeffelt–Gennep–Oeffelt–Boxmeer–Overloon–Venray, operated by Arriva.

Editorial summary

“Cuijk railway station” enters the record as railway station in the Netherlands. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cuijk, railway 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—1883—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cuijk, railway and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Cuijk railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cuijk, 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 Q2478972. Authority coordinates are 51.727, 5.874. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1883.

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 “Cuijk railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cuijk railway station primary sources, Cuijk railway station archive and Cuijk 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 “Cuijk railway station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cuijk 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.