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National Telecom MRT station

monorail station in Bangkok, Thailand

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 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ123537477 ↗
Source-derived summary

National Telecom station (Thai: สถานีโทรคมนาคมแห่งชาติ, RTGS: Sathani Thora Khamanakhom Haeng Chat) is a Bangkok MRT station on the Pink Line. The station is located on Chaeng Watthana Road, near the National Telecom Headquarters and the Ministry of Justice in Lak Si district, Bangkok. The station has four exits. It opened on 21 November 2023 as part of trial operations on the entire Pink Line.

Editorial summary

“National Telecom MRT station” enters the record as monorail station in Bangkok, Thailand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Telecom and station 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Telecom and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123537477. Authority coordinates are 13.887, 100.576. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “National Telecom MRT 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.