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Đồng Hới station

railway station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ527753 ↗
Source-derived summary

Đồng Hới station is one of the main railway stations on the North–South railway (Reunification Express) in Vietnam. It serves the city of Đồng Hới, the provincial capital of Quảng Trị Province, (formally of Quảng Bình Province). The station is 450 km south of Hanoi, 160 km north of Huế, 1280 km north of Saigon station. The station is located 3 km West, inland, from the coast and downtown.

Editorial summary

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

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—1280—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Đồng, station and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station” 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

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 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q527753. Authority coordinates are 17.469, 106.600. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1280.

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 “Đồng Hới station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Đồng Hới station primary sources, Đồng Hới station archive and Đồng 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 “Đồng Hới station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Đồng Hới 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.