Railway air brake

Railway air brake - fail-safe power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium. Article “Railway air brake” in English Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.14 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Railway air brake” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Railway air brake”, its content was written by 182 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 503 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1115 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4640 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14250 in March 2005
• Global: #25426 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29416 in July 2013
• Global: #41152 in July 2013

There are 17 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	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		75.1502
2	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		60.8607
3	Italian (it) Freno continuo automatico Westinghouse		59.0416
4	English (en) Railway air brake		55.214
5	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		49.477
6	French (fr) Frein automatique		40.6594
7	Catalan (ca) Fre Westinghouse		26.9326
8	Indonesian (id) Rem udara kereta api		17.0972
9	Spanish (es) Freno Westinghouse		14.8273
10	Finnish (fi) Paineilmajarru (rautatietekniikka)		14.5945

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Railway air brake" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railway air brake		1 598 162
2	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		599 411
3	Japanese (ja) 空気ブレーキ		404 617
4	Russian (ru) Воздушный тормоз Вестингауза		141 285
5	French (fr) Frein automatique		127 314
6	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		90 914
7	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		88 908
8	Chinese (zh) 空气制动 (铁路)		39 689
9	Italian (it) Freno continuo automatico Westinghouse		31 322
10	Dutch (nl) Westinghouserem		29 985

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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 "Railway air brake" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railway air brake		5 594
2	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		1 531
3	Japanese (ja) 空気ブレーキ		773
4	Russian (ru) Воздушный тормоз Вестингауза		522
5	French (fr) Frein automatique		446
6	Italian (it) Freno continuo automatico Westinghouse		390
7	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		378
8	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		275
9	Chinese (zh) 空气制动 (铁路)		201
10	Dutch (nl) Westinghouserem		95

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railway air brake		182
2	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		105
3	French (fr) Frein automatique		40
4	Russian (ru) Воздушный тормоз Вестингауза		36
5	Japanese (ja) 空気ブレーキ		34
6	Dutch (nl) Westinghouserem		20
7	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		15
8	Finnish (fi) Paineilmajarru (rautatietekniikka)		14
9	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		13
10	Hungarian (hu) Westinghouse-fék		10

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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 "Railway air brake" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railway air brake		7
2	Finnish (fi) Paineilmajarru (rautatietekniikka)		1
3	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		1
4	Catalan (ca) Fre Westinghouse		0
5	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		0
6	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		0
7	Spanish (es) Freno Westinghouse		0
8	French (fr) Frein automatique		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Westinghouse-fék		0
10	Indonesian (id) Rem udara kereta api		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 "Railway air brake" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)		1 356
2	English (en) Railway air brake		1 115
3	Japanese (ja) 空気ブレーキ		1 099
4	Chinese (zh) 空气制动 (铁路)		309
5	French (fr) Frein automatique		215
6	Korean (ko) 공기제동		154
7	Russian (ru) Воздушный тормоз Вестингауза		101
8	Dutch (nl) Westinghouserem		86
9	Czech (cs) Samočinná tlaková brzda		63
10	Polish (pl) Hamulec zespolony		37

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Fre Westinghouse
cs	Czech Samočinná tlaková brzda
de	German Druckluftbremse (Eisenbahn)
en	English Railway air brake
es	Spanish Freno Westinghouse
fi	Finnish Paineilmajarru (rautatietekniikka)
fr	French Frein automatique
hu	Hungarian Westinghouse-fék
id	Indonesian Rem udara kereta api
it	Italian Freno continuo automatico Westinghouse
ja	Japanese 空気ブレーキ
ko	Korean 공기제동
ms	Malay Brek udara keretapi
nl	Dutch Westinghouserem
pl	Polish Hamulec zespolony
ru	Russian Воздушный тормоз Вестингауза
zh	Chinese 空气制动 (铁路)

Best Rank

English: #29416 07.2013

Global: #41152 07.2013

Best Rank

English: #14250 03.2005

Global: #25426 03.2003

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