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Shuangbai Road station

metro station in Shanghai, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ62005360 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shuangbai Road (simplified Chinese: 双柏路; traditional Chinese: 雙柏路; pinyin: Shuāngbǎi Lù) is a metro station on the Line 15 of the Shanghai Metro. Located at the intersection of Shuangbai Road and South Lianhua Road in Minhang District, Shanghai, the station was scheduled to open with the rest of Line 15 in 2020. However, the station eventually opened on 23 January 2021 following a one-month postponement. Since Dec. 30, 2021, this station has become the terminal station of short-route trains, in place of West Huajing station.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shuangbai Road station” as metro station in Shanghai, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shuangbai, Road 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—2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shuangbai, Road 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 “Shuangbai Road station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Shanghai, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q62005360. Authority coordinates are 31.085, 121.417. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shuangbai Road 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.