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Rotvoll Station

railway halt in Trondheim, Norway, on the Trondheim–Hell part of the Nordland Line (orig. Meråker Line)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4578170
Source-derived summary

Rotvoll is a railway station on the Nordland Line at Rotvoll in Trondheim Municipality, Norway. It is served by the Trøndelag Commuter Rail operated by SJ Norge with hourly service to Trondheim and Steinkjer.

The station is located beside the Equinor offices at Rotvoll.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rotvoll Station” is railway halt in Trondheim, Norway, on the Trondheim–Hell part of the Nordland Line (orig. Meråker Line). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rotvoll, Station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1909-01-01. For this dossier, Rotvoll, Station and railway is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “railway halt in Trondheim, Norway, on the Trondheim–Hell part of the Nordland Line (orig. Meråker Line)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4578170. Authority coordinates are 63.437, 10.481. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Rotvoll 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.