Light railway

Light railway - railway built at lower costs and to lower standards. Article “Light railway” in English Wikipedia has 32 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.68 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Light railway”, its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 202 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2710 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #85146 in November 2006
• Global: #6301 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #208397 in March 2009
• Global: #167953 in October 2008

There are 9 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	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		34.7704
2	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		34.3095
3	German (de) Light Railway		32.4424
4	English (en) Light railway		32.0104
5	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		27.0808
6	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		22.6741
7	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		16.7787
8	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		11.354
9	Danish (da) Nærbane		1.4019

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Light railway" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		761 210
2	English (en) Light railway		163 008
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		46 768
4	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		37 192
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		35 949
6	Danish (da) Nærbane		7 423
7	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		7 058
8	German (de) Light Railway		5 410
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		418

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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 "Light railway" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		2 620
2	English (en) Light railway		604
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		271
4	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		206
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		79
6	German (de) Light Railway		14
7	Danish (da) Nærbane		10
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		10
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		0

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		89
2	English (en) Light railway		61
3	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		45
4	German (de) Light Railway		21
5	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		18
6	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		16
7	Danish (da) Nærbane		7
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		2
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		1

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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 "Light railway" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		1
2	Danish (da) Nærbane		0
3	German (de) Light Railway		0
4	English (en) Light railway		0
5	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		0
6	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		0
7	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		0
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		0
9	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		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 "Light railway" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 軽便鉄道		1 199
2	French (fr) Chemin de fer secondaire		663
3	Chinese (zh) 輕便鐵路		406
4	English (en) Light railway		202
5	Dutch (nl) Lokaalspoorweg		116
6	Danish (da) Nærbane		97
7	German (de) Light Railway		13
8	Swedish (sv) Lokalbana		9
9	Arabic (ar) سكة حديد خفيفة		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سكة حديد خفيفة
da	Danish Nærbane
de	German Light Railway
en	English Light railway
fr	French Chemin de fer secondaire
ja	Japanese 軽便鉄道
nl	Dutch Lokaalspoorweg
sv	Swedish Lokalbana
zh	Chinese 輕便鐵路

Best Rank

English: #208397 03.2009

Global: #167953 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #85146 11.2006

Global: #6301 09.2003

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