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Zhichun Lu station

Beijing Subway station in Haidian, 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 authorityQ6124697 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zhichun Lu Station (Chinese: 知春路站; pinyin: Zhīchūnlù Zhàn) is an interchange station between Line 10 and Line 13 of the Beijing Subway.

Station layout

The line 10 station has an underground split island platform. The line 13 station has two at-grade side platforms.

Exits

There are five exits, lettered A, B, F, G1, and G2. Exits A, B, G1, and G2 are accessible.

Editorial summary

“Zhichun Lu station” enters the record as beijing Subway station in Haidian, Beijing. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zhichun, station and Beijing can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-09-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zhichun, station and Beijing.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6124697. Authority coordinates are 39.975, 116.334. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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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  • 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 “Zhichun Lu station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zhichun Lu station primary sources, Zhichun Lu station archive and Zhichun 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 “Zhichun Lu station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Zhichun Lu 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.