Signalling block system

Signalling block system - system which enables the safe and efficient operation of railways to avoid collisions between trains. Article "Signalling block system" in English Wikipedia has 42.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 15 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Signalling block system", its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 615 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 289 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4460 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36119 in August 2020
• Global: #16668 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #217797 in November 2021
• Global: #20686 in September 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	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		53.4325
2	German (de) Streckenblock		53.3275
3	Chinese (zh) 閉塞 (鐵路)		44.8978
4	English (en) Signalling block system		42.4836
5	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		31.7691
6	Dutch (nl) Blokstelsel		30.5888
7	Slovak (sk) Traťové zabezpečovacie zariadenie		25.9377
8	Korean (ko) 폐색		25.011
9	Indonesian (id) Petak jalan		21.8373
10	French (fr) Block-système		21.4119

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Signalling block system" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		1 858 408
2	German (de) Streckenblock		346 660
3	English (en) Signalling block system		254 828
4	Chinese (zh) 閉塞 (鐵路)		209 807
5	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		109 675
6	French (fr) Block-système		101 238
7	Dutch (nl) Blokstelsel		45 226
8	Italian (it) Blocco ferroviario		42 846
9	Korean (ko) 폐색		36 335
10	Czech (cs) Traťové zabezpečovací zařízení		20 169

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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 "Signalling block system" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		6 443
2	English (en) Signalling block system		2 430
3	German (de) Streckenblock		1 731
4	Chinese (zh) 閉塞 (鐵路)		1 255
5	French (fr) Block-système		311
6	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		281
7	Korean (ko) 폐색		243
8	Slovak (sk) Traťové zabezpečovacie zariadenie		166
9	Indonesian (id) Petak jalan		100
10	Dutch (nl) Blokstelsel		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 "Signalling block system" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		151
2	German (de) Streckenblock		122
3	English (en) Signalling block system		69
4	French (fr) Block-système		66
5	Chinese (zh) 閉塞 (鐵路)		57
6	Dutch (nl) Blokstelsel		56
7	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		33
8	Slovak (sk) Traťové zabezpečovacie zariadenie		17
9	Italian (it) Blocco ferroviario		11
10	Catalan (ca) Bloqueig (ferrocarril)		9

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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 "Signalling block system" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Bloqueig (ferrocarril)		0
2	Czech (cs) Traťové zabezpečovací zařízení		0
3	German (de) Streckenblock		0
4	English (en) Signalling block system		0
5	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		0
6	French (fr) Block-système		0
7	Galician (gl) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		0
8	Indonesian (id) Petak jalan		0
9	Italian (it) Blocco ferroviario		0
10	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		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 "Signalling block system" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 閉塞 (鐵路)		1 809
2	Japanese (ja) 閉塞 (鉄道)		1 257
3	German (de) Streckenblock		432
4	English (en) Signalling block system		289
5	French (fr) Block-système		173
6	Indonesian (id) Petak jalan		126
7	Korean (ko) 폐색		119
8	Spanish (es) Bloqueo (ferrocarril)		87
9	Dutch (nl) Blokstelsel		66
10	Czech (cs) Traťové zabezpečovací zařízení		42

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bloqueig (ferrocarril)
cs	Czech Traťové zabezpečovací zařízení
de	German Streckenblock
en	English Signalling block system
es	Spanish Bloqueo (ferrocarril)
fr	French Block-système
gl	Galician Bloqueo (ferrocarril)
id	Indonesian Petak jalan
it	Italian Blocco ferroviario
ja	Japanese 閉塞 (鉄道)
ko	Korean 폐색
nl	Dutch Blokstelsel
sk	Slovak Traťové zabezpečovacie zariadenie
zh	Chinese 閉塞 (鐵路)

Best Rank

English: #217797 11.2021

Global: #20686 09.2012

Best Rank

English: #36119 08.2020

Global: #16668 10.2004

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