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Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station

railway station in Vendôme, France

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3089660 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station is a high-speed railway station located in Vendôme and Villiers-sur-Loir, Loir-et-Cher, central France. The station was opened in 1990 and is located on the LGV Atlantique. The train services are operated by SNCF.

It is located 5 km northwest of Vendôme, closer to the small town Villiers-sur-Loir. The 178 km journey from Paris Montparnasse to Vendome TGV takes 42 minutes.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station” as railway station in Vendôme, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. The account is most persuasive where Vendôme, Villiers-sur-Loir and station can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Vendôme, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Q3089660. Authority coordinates are 47.822, 1.021. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

Critical limits

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.

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 “Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station primary sources, Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station archive and Vendôme 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 “Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Vendôme–Villiers-sur-Loir TGV 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.