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SHIA railway station

railway station in Tangerang, Indonesia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ44368381 ↗
Source-derived summary

SHIA Station or Soekarno–Hatta International Airport Station (BST) (Indonesian: Stasiun Bandara Soekarno–Hatta) is a railway station within the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport complex in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, serving the Soekarno–Hatta Airport Commuter Line and inter-terminal airport skytrain. It is located between the airport's Terminal 1 to the south and Terminal 2 to the north.

This station serves airport passengers going to Batu Ceper Station, Duri Station, BNI City Station, to Manggarai Station. The station began serving passengers on 26 December 2017 and was inaugurated on 2 January 2018.

Building and layout

SHIA station is nestled in an integrated building, which can accommodate about 3500 passengers. The station has two platforms, both equipped with full-height platform screen doors. There are a passenger lobby, four escalators and two elevators placed across the terminal building. The station is equipped with facilities such as ticket counters (only Debit or Credit Card is acceptable), public spaces, electronic gates, waiting rooms, commercial rooms, restrooms, prayer rooms, the rail administrator room, and a skytrain station. The station yard can accommodate four trains of 10 carriages.

The ground floor of the building is fully used for the Soekarno-Hatta Airport rail link station.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “SHIA railway station” is railway station in Tangerang, Indonesia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through SHIA, railway and station, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-12-26. For this dossier, SHIA, railway and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Tangerang, Indonesia” 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

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 Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q44368381. Authority coordinates are -6.127, 106.652. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “SHIA railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow SHIA railway station primary sources, SHIA railway station archive and SHIA 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 “SHIA railway station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “SHIA 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.