Folligny station
railway station
Folligny station (French: Gare de Folligny) is a railway station serving the town Folligny, Manche department, northwestern France. It is situated on the Lison–Lamballe railway.
Services
The station is served by regional trains to Granville, Argentan, Caen, Paris and Rennes.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Folligny station” is railway station. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Folligny, station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “railway station” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
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 Dec 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q605114. Authority coordinates are 48.830, -1.407. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.
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This entry incorporates text from “Folligny 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.