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Semt Garajı railway station

railway station in İzmir, western Turkey

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 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16961704 ↗
Source-derived summary

Semt Garajı previously Semt is a railway station in İzmir. The station is served by İZBAN. The current station was built between 2006–09 and opened on 30 August 2010.

Connections

ESHOT operates regional bus service, accessible from the station.

Editorial summary

“Semt Garajı railway station” enters the record as railway station in İzmir, western Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Semt, Garajı 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—2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Semt, Garajı and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Semt Garajı railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Semt, Garajı and railway 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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16961704. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2010.

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.

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 “Semt Garajı railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Semt Garajı railway station primary sources, Semt Garajı railway station archive and Semt 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 “Semt Garajı railway 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Semt Garajı 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.