Gannes station
railway station
The Gannes station (Gare de Gannes) is a railway station on the Paris-Nord–Lille line located in the commune of Gannes in the Oise department, France. The station is served by TER Hauts-de-France trains.
The station was first opened in 1846 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord Railway Company). The station formerly had a marshalling yard, used by the surrounding small rural industry. The station was closed in 1940, and was reopened at the Liberation of France. The station building was abandoned and torn down in the 1970s.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gannes station” as railway station. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q684137. Authority coordinates are 49.572, 2.438. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1846 and 1940.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Gannes 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.