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Nerul railway station

Railway Station in Maharashtra, 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 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ15261704 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nerul is a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Around 1,00,000 people travel from Nerul towards Mumbai CSMT daily, and around 50,000 people travel in the Panvel direction every day. Nerul station is a terminus station for Port line and Trans-Harbour line, respectively.

It has 6 platforms. PF 1 is for trains going to Panvel or Terminating here. PF 2 is for trains going to Thane via Nerul. PF 3 is for trains Going towards CBD Belapur/Panvel. PF 4 is for trains Going towards CSMT/Goregaon. PF 5&6 are for Trains going to Uran.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nerul railway station” as railway Station in Maharashtra, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nerul, railway and station.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 99-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nerul, railway and station providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nerul railway station”, the useful work is to connect “railway Station in Maharashtra, India” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15261704. Authority coordinates are 19.034, 73.018. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nerul 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.