Main line (railway)

Main line - a track that is used for through trains or is the principal artery of the system from which branch lines, yards, sidings and spurs are connected. Article “Main line (railway)” in English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 1 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 “Main line (railway)”, its content was written by 27 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 310 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 686 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2597 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #213068 in December 2007
• Global: #18398 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #398058 in March 2018
• Global: #226448 in March 2012

There are 14 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	German (de) Hauptbahn		24.828
2	Urdu (ur) مین ریلوے لائن		23.5114
3	English (en) Main line (railway)		21.6721
4	Polish (pl) Główna linia kolejowa		17.1794
5	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		16.1347
6	Danish (da) Hovedbane		15.2033
7	Japanese (ja) 本線		10.5833
8	Chinese (zh) 正线		9.0773
9	Swedish (sv) Stambana		8.6138
10	Georgian (ka) სარკინიგზო მაგისტრალი		3.3675

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Main line (railway)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 本線		226 577
2	English (en) Main line (railway)		203 756
3	German (de) Hauptbahn		137 617
4	Swedish (sv) Stambana		91 440
5	Polish (pl) Główna linia kolejowa		87 580
6	Korean (ko) 간선철도		46 374
7	Chinese (zh) 正线		35 640
8	Finnish (fi) Päärata		29 533
9	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		15 116
10	Georgian (ka) სარკინიგზო მაგისტრალი		11 393

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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 "Main line (railway)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Main line (railway)		1 546
2	Japanese (ja) 本線		1 496
3	German (de) Hauptbahn		614
4	Swedish (sv) Stambana		290
5	Chinese (zh) 正线		184
6	Korean (ko) 간선철도		97
7	Finnish (fi) Päärata		65
8	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		49
9	Danish (da) Hovedbane		27
10	Polish (pl) Główna linia kolejowa		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hauptbahn		73
2	Japanese (ja) 本線		58
3	Swedish (sv) Stambana		33
4	English (en) Main line (railway)		27
5	Finnish (fi) Päärata		25
6	Chinese (zh) 正线		18
7	Danish (da) Hovedbane		16
8	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		15
9	Polish (pl) Główna linia kolejowa		13
10	Korean (ko) 간선철도		12

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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 "Main line (railway)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 本線		2
2	Danish (da) Hovedbane		1
3	Finnish (fi) Päärata		1
4	Swedish (sv) Stambana		1
5	German (de) Hauptbahn		0
6	English (en) Main line (railway)		0
7	French (fr) Voie mère		0
8	Georgian (ka) სარკინიგზო მაგისტრალი		0
9	Korean (ko) 간선철도		0
10	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		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 "Main line (railway)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Hauptbahn		1 000
2	English (en) Main line (railway)		686
3	Chinese (zh) 正线		425
4	Japanese (ja) 本線		160
5	Korean (ko) 간선철도		114
6	Swedish (sv) Stambana		81
7	Dutch (nl) Hoofdspoorweg		45
8	Polish (pl) Główna linia kolejowa		25
9	French (fr) Voie mère		22
10	Danish (da) Hovedbane		19

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Hovedbane
de	German Hauptbahn
en	English Main line (railway)
fi	Finnish Päärata
fr	French Voie mère
ja	Japanese 本線
ka	Georgian სარკინიგზო მაგისტრალი
ko	Korean 간선철도
nl	Dutch Hoofdspoorweg
pl	Polish Główna linia kolejowa
simple	Simple English Main line
sv	Swedish Stambana
ur	Urdu مین ریلوے لائن
zh	Chinese 正线

Best Rank

English: #398058 03.2018

Global: #226448 03.2012

Best Rank

English: #213068 12.2007

Global: #18398 03.2004

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