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Shexian North railway station

railway station in She County, Huangshan, Anhui

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 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ20687889 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shexian North railway station (Chinese: 歙县北站) is a railway station in Shexian County, Huangshan, Anhui, China. It is an intermediate stop on both the Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway and the Hangzhou–Huangshan intercity railway.

Initially, no station was planned at this location. However, the station was later added to plans. The station opened with the Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway on 28 June 2015.

Editorial summary

“Shexian North railway station” enters the record as railway station in She County, Huangshan, Anhui. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shexian, North and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shexian, North and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20687889. Authority coordinates are 29.924, 118.405. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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  2. Expand the search: follow Shexian North railway station primary sources, Shexian North railway station archive and Shexian 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shexian North 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.