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Guangxi Men station

Beijing Subway Line 12 and Line 13 station

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Guangxi Men station is an interchange station between Line 12 and Line 13 of the Beijing Subway. The Line 13 station opened on January 28, 2003, whilst the Line 12 station opened on December 15, 2024.

Editorial summary

“Guangxi Men station” enters the record as beijing Subway Line 12 and Line 13 station. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guangxi, station and Beijing 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—2003, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guangxi, station and Beijing.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Guangxi Men station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Guangxi, station and Beijing 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 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2024.

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 “Guangxi Men station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Guangxi Men station primary sources, Guangxi Men station archive and Guangxi 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 “Guangxi Men 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 “Guangxi Men 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.