Rail transport

Quality:

Rail transport - conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. Article “Rail transport” in English Wikipedia has 90.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 158 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4354^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8153^rd most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Rail transport” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rail transport”, its content was written by 1199 registered users of English Wikipedia (4354^th place) and edited by 2839 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8153^rd place).

The article is cited 10893 times in English Wikipedia (1823^rd place) and cited 37580 times in all languages (4485^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #413 in July 2002
• Global: #655 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4295 in May 2010
• Global: #7159 in May 2010

There are 42 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	Estonian (et) Raudteetransport		92.8334
2	Chinese (zh) 鐵路運輸		91.5079
3	English (en) Rail transport		90.8373
4	Indonesian (id) Transportasi rel		87.245
5	Japanese (ja) 鉄道輸送		82.3204
6	Tamil (ta) இருப்புப்பாதைப் போக்குவரத்து		75.7723
7	Portuguese (pt) Transporte ferroviário		71.8352
8	Polish (pl) Transport kolejowy		57.55
9	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт		56.3318
10	Malay (ms) Pengangkutan rel		53.6366

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rail transport		9 581 645
2	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт		2 074 026
3	Portuguese (pt) Transporte ferroviário		919 851
4	Polish (pl) Transport kolejowy		874 355
5	Chinese (zh) 鐵路運輸		661 474
6	Arabic (ar) نقل بالسكك الحديدية		558 460
7	Turkish (tr) Demiryolu ulaşımı		448 938
8	German (de) Bahn (Verkehr)		398 822
9	Ukrainian (uk) Залізничний транспорт		278 132
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vận tải đường sắt		218 292

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rail transport		15 298
2	Chinese (zh) 鐵路運輸		2 028
3	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт		1 900
4	Turkish (tr) Demiryolu ulaşımı		695
5	German (de) Bahn (Verkehr)		634
6	Portuguese (pt) Transporte ferroviário		508
7	Polish (pl) Transport kolejowy		507
8	Persian (fa) ترابری ریلی		366
9	Vietnamese (vi) Vận tải đường sắt		294
10	Indonesian (id) Transportasi rel		234

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rail transport		1 199
2	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт		272
3	German (de) Bahn (Verkehr)		169
4	Chinese (zh) 鐵路運輸		122
5	Polish (pl) Transport kolejowy		110
6	Turkish (tr) Demiryolu ulaşımı		82
7	Ukrainian (uk) Залізничний транспорт		71
8	Italian (it) Trasporto ferroviario		70
9	Galician (gl) Ferrocarril		67
10	Portuguese (pt) Transporte ferroviário		63

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rail transport		5
2	Serbian (sr) Željeznički saobraćaj		4
3	Polish (pl) Transport kolejowy		2
4	Chinese (zh) 鐵路運輸		2
5	Arabic (ar) نقل بالسكك الحديدية		1
6	Basque (eu) Trenbide-garraio		1
7	Galician (gl) Ferrocarril		1
8	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Залізничний транспорт		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Temir yoʻl transporti		1

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

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