Bank engine

Assisting engine - locomotive used to assist trains up steep inclines. Article “Bank engine” in English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Bank engine”, its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 258 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 310 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1018 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #60027 in April 2008
• Global: #15020 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #224253 in October 2010
• Global: #214624 in March 2011

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		38.6708
2	English (en) Bank engine		35.5508
3	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		21.3808
4	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		21.2243
5	Spanish (es) Locomotora de refuerzo		18.7887
6	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		15.7781
7	Czech (cs) Postrk		13.1288
8	Chinese (zh) 輔助機車		11.8304
9	Ukrainian (uk) Локомотив-штовхач		10.9425
10	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		6.3391

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bank engine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bank engine		411 880
2	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		191 031
3	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		85 203
4	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		71 712
5	Chinese (zh) 輔助機車		24 391
6	Czech (cs) Postrk		18 752
7	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		11 547
8	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		9 509
9	Swedish (sv) Pålok		4 356
10	Ukrainian (uk) Локомотив-штовхач		2 652

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bank engine" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bank engine		1 593
2	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		673
3	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		331
4	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		253
5	Chinese (zh) 輔助機車		120
6	Czech (cs) Postrk		56
7	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		24
8	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		17
9	Spanish (es) Locomotora de refuerzo		16
10	Swedish (sv) Pålok		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bank engine" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bank engine		133
2	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		33
3	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		28
4	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		15
5	Chinese (zh) 輔助機車		12
6	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		8
7	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		8
8	Ukrainian (uk) Локомотив-штовхач		8
9	Czech (cs) Postrk		6
10	Swedish (sv) Pålok		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bank engine" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Postrk		0
2	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		0
3	English (en) Bank engine		0
4	Spanish (es) Locomotora de refuerzo		0
5	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		0
6	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		0
7	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		0
8	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		0
9	Swedish (sv) Pålok		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Локомотив-штовхач		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bank engine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bank engine		310
2	German (de) Schiebelokomotive		285
3	Japanese (ja) 補助機関車		230
4	Chinese (zh) 輔助機車		101
5	Russian (ru) Локомотив-толкач		44
6	Czech (cs) Postrk		26
7	Ukrainian (uk) Локомотив-штовхач		10
8	Spanish (es) Locomotora de refuerzo		5
9	Finnish (fi) Työntöveturi		4
10	Polish (pl) Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu		2

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Postrk
de	German Schiebelokomotive
en	English Bank engine
es	Spanish Locomotora de refuerzo
fi	Finnish Työntöveturi
ja	Japanese 補助機関車
pl	Polish Lokomotywa pracująca na popychu
ru	Russian Локомотив-толкач
sv	Swedish Pålok
uk	Ukrainian Локомотив-штовхач
zh	Chinese 輔助機車

Best Rank

English: #224253 10.2010

Global: #214624 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #60027 04.2008

Global: #15020 11.2003

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