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Charny station

railway station in Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est, Lévis, Quebec, Canada

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 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3096200 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charny station is a Via Rail station in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 2326 rue de la Gare in the borough of Charny. It is staffed and is wheelchair-accessible. The station is served by one train per day in each direction on the Montreal–Quebec line Corridor service. The station was once a stop on the Montreal–Gaspé train until 2013, and the Ocean until 2014, when that service moved its local stop to Sainte-Foy station.

Editorial summary

“Charny station” enters the record as railway station in Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est, Lévis, Quebec, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charny, station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charny, station and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Charny station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charny, station and railway 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 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3096200. Authority coordinates are 46.714, -71.270. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2014.

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • 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 “Charny station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Charny station primary sources, Charny station archive and Charny 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 “Charny station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Charny 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.