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Reconvilier railway station

railway station in Switzerland

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 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ30240674 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reconvilier railway station (French: Gare de Reconvilier) is a railway station in the municipality of Reconvilier, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Sonceboz-Sombeval–Moutier line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at Reconvilier:

Regio: hourly service between Moutier and Biel/Bienne; increases to half-hourly on weekdays between Malleray-Bévilard and Sonceboz-Sombeval at various times during the day.

Editorial summary

“Reconvilier railway station” enters the record as railway station in Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reconvilier, railway 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—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Reconvilier, railway and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30240674. Authority coordinates are 47.235, 7.227. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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.

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