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Nantong West railway station

railway station in Nantong, Jiangsu

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 revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ34640706 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nantong West railway station (Chinese: 南通西站) is a railway station in Tongzhou District, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

History

This station opened with the Shanghai–Suzhou–Nantong railway on 1 July 2020. The Yancheng–Nantong high-speed railway was opened in Yancheng–Nantong high-speed railway 2020.

Future

The under construction Nantong–Ningbo high-speed railway will include a stop here.

Metro station

Nantong Metro Line 1 has served this station since 10 November 2022.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nantong West railway station” is railway station in Nantong, Jiangsu. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nantong, West and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nantong, West and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Nantong, Jiangsu” 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 Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q34640706. Authority coordinates are 32.104, 120.761. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2022.

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