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Kim railway station

railway station in Gujarat, India

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 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ60368377 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kim railway station is a railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Kim railway station is 24 km far away from Surat railway station. Passenger, MEMU and few Express/Superfast trains halt at Kim railway station.

Nearby stations

Kudsad is nearest railway station towards Mumbai, whereas Kosamba Junction is nearest railway station towards Vadodara.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kim railway station” as railway station in Gujarat, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where railway, station and Gujarat 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 Gujarat, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60368377. Authority coordinates are 21.400, 72.927. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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

This entry incorporates text from “Kim railway 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.