Speed records in rail transport

Quality:

Railway speed record - Wikimedia list article. Article “Speed records in rail transport” in English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 154 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.8 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Speed records in rail transport” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Speed records in rail transport”, its content was written by 318 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 840 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 317 times in English Wikipedia and cited 789 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5805 in April 2007
• Global: #4740 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9885 in April 2015
• Global: #14082 in April 2015

There are 12 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	English (en) Speed records in rail transport		72.1833
2	Spanish (es) Récord de velocidad ferroviario		66.862
3	German (de) Geschwindigkeitsweltrekorde für Schienenfahrzeuge		66.6623
4	Simple English (simple) Railway speed record		51.2959
5	Chinese (zh) 軌道車輛速度紀錄		43.6444
6	French (fr) Record de vitesse sur rail		42.6703
7	Polish (pl) Lista rekordów prędkości pojazdów szynowych		37.4085
8	Dutch (nl) Snelheidsrecord voor railvoertuigen		31.6773
9	Russian (ru) Рекорды скорости на рельсах		23.239
10	Italian (it) Record di velocità su rotaia		14.5822

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speed records in rail transport		2 029 986
2	German (de) Geschwindigkeitsweltrekorde für Schienenfahrzeuge		724 811
3	French (fr) Record de vitesse sur rail		474 807
4	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道の最高速度記録の歴史		420 567
5	Russian (ru) Рекорды скорости на рельсах		287 285
6	Chinese (zh) 軌道車輛速度紀錄		208 481
7	Italian (it) Record di velocità su rotaia		114 406
8	Polish (pl) Lista rekordów prędkości pojazdów szynowych		35 314
9	Spanish (es) Récord de velocidad ferroviario		10 282
10	Simple English (simple) Railway speed record		3 883

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) Speed records in rail transport		13 439
2	German (de) Geschwindigkeitsweltrekorde für Schienenfahrzeuge		2 496
3	French (fr) Record de vitesse sur rail		1 402
4	Russian (ru) Рекорды скорости на рельсах		915
5	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道の最高速度記録の歴史		776
6	Chinese (zh) 軌道車輛速度紀錄		640
7	Italian (it) Record di velocità su rotaia		414
8	Spanish (es) Récord de velocidad ferroviario		235
9	Polish (pl) Lista rekordów prędkości pojazdów szynowych		176
10	Simple English (simple) Railway speed record		93

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Speed records in rail transport		318
2	French (fr) Record de vitesse sur rail		181
3	German (de) Geschwindigkeitsweltrekorde für Schienenfahrzeuge		153
4	Chinese (zh) 軌道車輛速度紀錄		69
5	Italian (it) Record di velocità su rotaia		36
6	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道の最高速度記録の歴史		33
7	Russian (ru) Рекорды скорости на рельсах		22
8	Polish (pl) Lista rekordów prędkości pojazdów szynowych		12
9	Simple English (simple) Railway speed record		6
10	Dutch (nl) Snelheidsrecord voor railvoertuigen		5

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	French (fr) Record de vitesse sur rail		5
2	English (en) Speed records in rail transport		4
3	German (de) Geschwindigkeitsweltrekorde für Schienenfahrzeuge		0
4	Spanish (es) Récord de velocidad ferroviario		0
5	Italian (it) Record di velocità su rotaia		0
6	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道の最高速度記録の歴史		0
7	Korean (ko) 열차의 속도 기록		0
8	Dutch (nl) Snelheidsrecord voor railvoertuigen		0
9	Polish (pl) Lista rekordów prędkości pojazdów szynowych		0
10	Russian (ru) Рекорды скорости на рельсах		0

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

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