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Pringy station

railway station in Pringy, Haute-Savoie, France

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 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2448329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pringy station (French: Gare de Pringy) is a railway station located in Pringy, Haute-Savoie, south-eastern France. The station was opened in 1884 and is located on the Aix-les-Bains–Annemasse railway. The trains serving this station are operated by SNCF.

Train services

As of 2024, trains on the following routes call at Pringy:

Léman Express L2 : hourly service between Annecy and Coppet.

TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: rush-hour service between Annecy and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pringy station” as railway station in Pringy, Haute-Savoie, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pringy, station and railway.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pringy, station and railway providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Pringy station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Pringy, Haute-Savoie, France” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2448329. Authority coordinates are 46.011, 6.176. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884 and 2024.

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 “Pringy station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pringy station primary sources, Pringy station archive and Pringy 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 “Pringy station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Pringy 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.