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Kumedpur Junction railway station

railway station in West Bengal

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 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ60178135 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kumedpur Junction railway station is a railway Junction station on the Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. This station connects Katihar Junction with Howrah–New Jalpaiguri railway route. It is situated at Telgram, Kumedpur of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Total 33 trains including a number of express trains stop at Kumedpur Junction railway station.

Editorial summary

“Kumedpur Junction railway station” enters the record as railway station in West Bengal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kumedpur, Junction and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kumedpur, Junction and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kumedpur Junction railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kumedpur, Junction and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60178135. Authority coordinates are 25.433, 87.804. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Kumedpur Junction railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kumedpur Junction railway station primary sources, Kumedpur Junction railway station archive and Kumedpur 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 “Kumedpur Junction railway station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kumedpur Junction 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.