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Zhuliao railway station

intercity railway station in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ116418481 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zhuliao railway station (Chinese: 竹料站; pinyin: Zhúliào Zhàn; Cantonese Yale: Jūkliuh Jaahm) is a railway interchange station between Guangzhou East Ring intercity railway and Suishen intercity railway located in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It opened on 29 September 2025.

Features

The station has a pair of elevated island platforms. There is also an interchange passage toward the nearby Line 14 station.

Layout

Entrances/exits

The station has 5 points of entry/exit. As this station is connected to the metro station, the entrances/exits of the intercity stations are lettered from D to distinguish from the entrances/exits of the metro station, which are lettered A-C. All exits are accessible via either ramps or elevators.

D: Guangcong 5th Road

E: (Not open)

F: (Not open)

G1: Guangcong 5th Road

G2: Guangcong 5th Road

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History

The station structure topped out on 4 April 2019, and the main structure of the side building topped out on 5 December 2020. On 2 February 2021, the station was named Zhuliao station.

On 29 September 2025, the station opened.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zhuliao railway station” is intercity railway station in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zhuliao, railway and station, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2019, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zhuliao, railway and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “intercity railway station in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China” 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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116418481. Authority coordinates are 23.350, 113.360. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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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  • 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 “Zhuliao railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zhuliao railway station primary sources, Zhuliao railway station archive and Zhuliao 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 “Zhuliao railway station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Zhuliao 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.