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Nibong Tebal railway station

railway station in Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

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 authorityQ13653167 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nibong Tebal railway station is a Malaysian railway station located at and named after the town of Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang. The old railway station in Nibong Tebal was demolished on 26 January 2010 for undergoing renovations due to electrification and double tracking of the KTM rail line, which the old 10m iron railway bridge across the Krian River was also demolished and replaced with a new bridge.

Editorial summary

“Nibong Tebal railway station” enters the record as railway station in Nibong Tebal, Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nibong, Tebal 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nibong, Tebal and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Nibong Tebal railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nibong, Tebal and railway 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 Q13653167. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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 “Nibong Tebal railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nibong Tebal railway station primary sources, Nibong Tebal railway station archive and Nibong 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 “Nibong Tebal railway station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Nibong Tebal 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.