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Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station

light rail station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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 revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ10876033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kaisyuan Jhonghua station (Chinese: 凱旋中華站; Hanyu Pinyin: Kǎixuán Zhōnghuá Zhàn; Tongyong Pinyin: Kǎisyuán Jhonghuá Jhàn) is a light rail station of the Circular line of the Kaohsiung rapid transit system. It is located in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Station overview

This is a street-level station with two side platforms. It is located at the junction of Jhonghua 5th Road and Kaisyuan 4th Road.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station” is light rail station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kaisyuan, Jhonghua and light, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-10-16. For this dossier, Kaisyuan, Jhonghua and light is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “light rail station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan” 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.

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 Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10876033. Authority coordinates are 22.594, 120.311. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station primary sources, Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station archive and Kaisyuan 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 “Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kaisyuan Jhonghua light rail 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.