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Yancundong station

Beijing Subway station in Fangshan, Beijing

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ39085456 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yancundong station (simplified Chinese: 阎村东站; traditional Chinese: 閻村東站; pinyin: Yáncūn Dōng Zhàn) is an interchange station on Fangshan Line and Yanfang Line of the Beijing Subway. It was opened on December 30, 2017.

Station layout

The station has elevated dual-island platforms with a cross platform interchange. Fangshan line trains serve the inner platforms whilst Yanfang line trains serve the outer platforms. On one side, terminating Fangshan line trains interchange with Yanfang line trains heading to Yanshan, whilst on the other, terminating Yanfang line trains interchange with Fangshan line trains heading to Dongguantou South.

Exits

There are 4 exits, lettered A1, A2, B1, and B2. Exits A2 and B2 are accessible.

Editorial summary

“Yancundong station” enters the record as beijing Subway station in Fangshan, Beijing. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yancundong, station and Beijing 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—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-12-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yancundong, station and Beijing.
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Why this record matters

“Yancundong station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yancundong, station and Beijing 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 Q39085456. Authority coordinates are 39.728, 116.095. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Yancundong 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.