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Swanage railway station

railway station in Swanage, Dorset, England, UK
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Swanage railway station

Summary

Swanage railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.95% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month, #177 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Swanage railway station is located in Swanage[3].
  • Swanage railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Swanage railway station's image is recorded as Dorset swanage station.jpg[5].
  • Swanage railway station's image is recorded as 050402 084 swanage railway.jpg[6].
  • Swanage railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[7].
  • Swanage railway station's connecting line is recorded as Swanage Railway[8].
  • Swanage railway station's operator is recorded as Swanage Railway[9].
  • Swanage is named after Swanage railway station[10].
  • Swanage railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Herston Halt railway station[11].
  • Swanage railway station's Commons category is recorded as Swanage railway station[12].
  • Swanage railway station's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 50.6102, 'longitude': -1.96145, 'precision': 0.014155771831663}[13].
  • Swanage railway station's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ft63q[14].
  • Swanage railway station's located on linear feature is recorded as Swanage Branch[15].
  • Swanage railway station's number of platform tracks is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+2'}[16].
  • Swanage railway station's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6953679[17].
  • Swanage railway station's date of official opening is recorded as +1885-05-20T00:00:00Z[18].
  • Swanage railway station's number of platform faces is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+2'}[19].
  • Swanage railway station's historic county is recorded as Dorset[20].
  • Swanage railway station's RailScot location ID is recorded as S/Swanage[21].

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Geography

Swanage railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. It is located in Swanage[3].

Designation and Status

Swanage railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[7].

History and Context

Swanage is named after Swanage railway station[10].

Why It Matters

Swanage railway station ranks in the top 0.95% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month, #177 of 18,574).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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