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Swarzewo railway station

railway station in Gnieżdżewo, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ635524 ↗
Source-derived summary

Swarzewo railway station is a railway stop serving the village of Swarzewo, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1903 and is located on the Reda–Hel railway. The train services are operated by Polregio.

The station used to be known as Schwarzau (Westpreußen). The station used to be located on the Swarzewo–Krokowa railway which was dismantled in 2005 after losing passenger traffic in 1989 and freight traffic in 1991.

Modernisation

The station was rebuilt in 2014 as part of the modernisation of the Reda–Hel railway.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

Regional services (R) Władysławowo - Reda - Gdynia Główna

Regional services (R) Hel - Władysławowo - Reda - Gdynia Główna

During the summer months long-distance services also operate to/from Hel.

References

This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of September 2016.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 2005, 1989, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Swarzewo, railway and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Gnieżdżewo, Poland” 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

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 Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q635524. Authority coordinates are 54.754, 18.374. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903, 2005, 1989 and 1991.

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

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Swarzewo 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.