Guard rail (rail transport)

Guard rail - additional train rail used to resist derailment. Article “Guard rail (rail transport)” in English Wikipedia has 33.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.76 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Guard rail (rail transport)”, its content was written by 35 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 120 times in English Wikipedia and cited 253 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #106792 in June 2023
• Global: #115300 in December 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #355747 in June 2023
• Global: #213062 in October 2024

There are 8 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		33.3804
2	German (de) Fangschiene		24.1976
3	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		18.1856
4	Russian (ru) Контррельс		16.8969
5	Chinese (zh) 护轨		5.2326
6	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		4.8096
7	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		2.9397
8	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		1.4751

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Guard rail (rail transport)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		188 066
2	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		172 127
3	German (de) Fangschiene		109 112
4	Russian (ru) Контррельс		97 304
5	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		22 509
6	Chinese (zh) 护轨		20 505
7	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		10 791
8	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		5 319

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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 "Guard rail (rail transport)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		1 104
2	German (de) Fangschiene		700
3	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		639
4	Russian (ru) Контррельс		265
5	Chinese (zh) 护轨		98
6	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		89
7	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		35
8	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		22

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		35
2	German (de) Fangschiene		28
3	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		24
4	Russian (ru) Контррельс		23
5	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		7
6	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		6
7	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		6
8	Chinese (zh) 护轨		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 "Guard rail (rail transport)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fangschiene		0
2	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		0
3	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		0
4	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		0
5	Russian (ru) Контррельс		0
6	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		0
8	Chinese (zh) 护轨		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 "Guard rail (rail transport)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Guard rail (rail transport)		120
2	Indonesian (id) Rel paksa		56
3	Japanese (ja) 脱線防止ガード		26
4	German (de) Fangschiene		23
5	Russian (ru) Контррельс		12
6	Chinese (zh) 护轨		8
7	Swedish (sv) Säkerhetsräl		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Контррейка		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Fangschiene
en	English Guard rail (rail transport)
id	Indonesian Rel paksa
ja	Japanese 脱線防止ガード
ru	Russian Контррельс
sv	Swedish Säkerhetsräl
uk	Ukrainian Контррейка
zh	Chinese 护轨

Best Rank

English: #355747 06.2023

Global: #213062 10.2024

Best Rank

English: #106792 06.2023

Global: #115300 12.2014

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