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Tangjiawan railway station

railway station in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ7682990 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tangjiawan railway station (Chinese: 唐家湾站; pinyin: Tángjiāwān Zhàn), formerly Jintang railway station (Chinese: 金唐站) during planning, is an elevated station of the Guangzhou–Zhuhai intercity railway (Guangzhu ICR). It is located in Tangjia Town, Xiangzhou, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, and is located directly in front of the Zhuhai College of the Beijing Institute of Technology and near the Zhuhai International Circuit.

The station entered service when all remaining stations in the Zhuhai section of the Guangzhu MRT opened on December 31, 2012.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Tangjiawan railway station” as railway station in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tangjiawan, railway and station.

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—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tangjiawan, railway and station providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Tangjiawan railway station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Nov 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7682990. Authority coordinates are 22.366, 113.546. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tangjiawan 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.