Third rail

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Third rail

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Third rail - type of electricity transmission of railways, particularly common in metro networks, one pole has a third rail, and the other pole is grounded and connected to the two primary rails. Article “Third rail” in English Wikipedia has 57.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10.15 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Third rail” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Third rail”, its content was written by 423 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1373 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2333 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7813 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #545 in October 2003
  • Global: #2780 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #31416 in December 2017
  • Global: #39600 in December 2017

There are 32 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Stromschiene
70.7562
2Polish (pl)
Trzecia szyna
59.0895
3English (en)
Third rail
57.4897
4Indonesian (id)
Rel ketiga
49.1465
5Chinese (zh)
第三軌供電
48.7636
6Esperanto (eo)
Kontaktrelo
33.9801
7Russian (ru)
Контактный рельс
33.3894
8Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
31.9916
9French (fr)
Troisième rail
26.8736
10Simple English (simple)
Third rail
25.9879
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Third rail" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Third rail
2 744 391
2Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
899 872
3German (de)
Stromschiene
674 521
4Russian (ru)
Контактный рельс
544 133
5Chinese (zh)
第三軌供電
267 076
6Polish (pl)
Trzecia szyna
247 017
7French (fr)
Troisième rail
180 730
8Spanish (es)
Tercer riel (alimentación)
131 026
9Italian (it)
Terza rotaia
107 809
10Dutch (nl)
Derde rail
83 772
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Third rail" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Third rail
8 618
2Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
2 783
3German (de)
Stromschiene
1 675
4Chinese (zh)
第三軌供電
989
5Russian (ru)
Контактный рельс
903
6French (fr)
Troisième rail
536
7Dutch (nl)
Derde rail
502
8Polish (pl)
Trzecia szyna
374
9Spanish (es)
Tercer riel (alimentación)
351
10Italian (it)
Terza rotaia
176
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Third rail" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Third rail
423
2German (de)
Stromschiene
217
3Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
151
4Chinese (zh)
第三軌供電
87
5French (fr)
Troisième rail
77
6Polish (pl)
Trzecia szyna
62
7Dutch (nl)
Derde rail
52
8Italian (it)
Terza rotaia
50
9Russian (ru)
Контактный рельс
44
10Spanish (es)
Tercer riel (alimentación)
34
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Third rail" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Third rail
3
2Polish (pl)
Trzecia szyna
2
3German (de)
Stromschiene
1
4Finnish (fi)
Virtakisko
1
5French (fr)
Troisième rail
1
6Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
1
7Simple English (simple)
Third rail
1
8Arabic (ar)
السكة الثالثة
0
9Azerbaijani (az)
Kontakt relsi
0
10Catalan (ca)
Tercer carril
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Third rail" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Third rail
2 333
2Chinese (zh)
第三軌供電
907
3Japanese (ja)
第三軌条方式
870
4German (de)
Stromschiene
739
5French (fr)
Troisième rail
369
6Italian (it)
Terza rotaia
325
7Russian (ru)
Контактный рельс
284
8Dutch (nl)
Derde rail
250
9Korean (ko)
제3궤조
180
10Indonesian (id)
Rel ketiga
167
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
السكة الثالثة
azAzerbaijani
Kontakt relsi
caCatalan
Tercer carril
csCzech
Napájecí kolejnice
daDanish
Strømskinne
deGerman
Stromschiene
enEnglish
Third rail
eoEsperanto
Kontaktrelo
esSpanish
Tercer riel (alimentación)
etEstonian
Toiterööbas
faPersian
ریل سوم
fiFinnish
Virtakisko
frFrench
Troisième rail
huHungarian
Harmadik sín
idIndonesian
Rel ketiga
itItalian
Terza rotaia
jaJapanese
第三軌条方式
kaGeorgian
საკონტაქტო რელსი
koKorean
제3궤조
msMalay
Rel ketiga
nlDutch
Derde rail
noNorwegian
Strømskinne
plPolish
Trzecia szyna
ptPortuguese
Terceiro carril
ruRussian
Контактный рельс
simpleSimple English
Third rail
skSlovak
Napájacia koľajnica
svSwedish
Strömskena
thThai
รางที่สาม
trTurkish
Üçüncü ray
ukUkrainian
Контактна рейка
zhChinese
第三軌供電

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#31416
12.2017
Global:
#39600
12.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#545
10.2003
Global:
#2780
10.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Third rail

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