Rail transport in France

Rail transport in France - overview of rail transportation in France. Article “Rail transport in France” in English Wikipedia has 62.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Rail transport in France”, its content was written by 67 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 376 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 600 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1451 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #72198 in October 2022
• Global: #45996 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #309325 in December 2018
• Global: #108336 in June 2015

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, 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	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		65.9193
2	English (en) Rail transport in France		62.1458
3	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		59.0407
4	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		46.6313
5	Chinese (zh) 法國鐵路運輸		43.1033
6	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		42.2209
7	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		22.5901
8	Dutch (nl) Spoorvervoer in Frankrijk		16.2407
9	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		11.5977
10	Romanian (ro) Transportul feroviar în Franța		11.0197

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Rail transport in France" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		629 853
2	English (en) Rail transport in France		406 054
3	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		201 393
4	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		117 190
5	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		57 270
6	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		52 307
7	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		34 656
8	Chinese (zh) 法國鐵路運輸		10 215
9	Swedish (sv) Järnväg i Frankrike		8 717
10	Romanian (ro) Transportul feroviar în Franța		5 715

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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 "Rail transport in France" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rail transport in France		2 015
2	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		1 148
3	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		709
4	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		381
5	Chinese (zh) 法國鐵路運輸		197
6	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		152
7	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		134
8	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		88
9	Swedish (sv) Järnväg i Frankrike		38
10	Dutch (nl) Spoorvervoer in Frankrijk		33

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		171
2	English (en) Rail transport in France		67
3	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		40
4	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		20
5	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		19
6	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		14
7	Swedish (sv) Järnväg i Frankrike		13
8	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		12
9	Chinese (zh) 法國鐵路運輸		10
10	Dutch (nl) Spoorvervoer in Frankrijk		7

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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 "Rail transport in France" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Spoorvervoer in Frankrijk		1
2	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		0
3	English (en) Rail transport in France		0
4	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		0
5	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		0
7	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		0
8	Romanian (ro) Transportul feroviar în Franța		0
9	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		0
10	Swedish (sv) Järnväg i Frankrike		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 "Rail transport in France" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rail transport in France		600
2	French (fr) Transport ferroviaire en France		294
3	Japanese (ja) フランスの鉄道		169
4	Hungarian (hu) Franciaország vasúti közlekedése		159
5	Russian (ru) Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции		68
6	German (de) Schienenverkehr in Frankreich		57
7	Chinese (zh) 法國鐵路運輸		47
8	Swedish (sv) Järnväg i Frankrike		18
9	Romanian (ro) Transportul feroviar în Franța		17
10	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril en Francia		15

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#	Language	Value
de	German Schienenverkehr in Frankreich
en	English Rail transport in France
es	Spanish Ferrocarril en Francia
fr	French Transport ferroviaire en France
hu	Hungarian Franciaország vasúti közlekedése
ja	Japanese フランスの鉄道
nl	Dutch Spoorvervoer in Frankrijk
ro	Romanian Transportul feroviar în Franța
ru	Russian Железнодорожный транспорт во Франции
sv	Swedish Järnväg i Frankrike
zh	Chinese 法國鐵路運輸

Best Rank

English: #309325 12.2018

Global: #108336 06.2015

Best Rank

English: #72198 10.2022

Global: #45996 11.2015

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