Timeline of railway history

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Timeline of railway history

Quality:

Timeline of railway history - history of railways in choronological order. Article “Timeline of railway history” in English Wikipedia has 58.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Timeline of railway history”, its content was written by 245 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 369 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 257 times in English Wikipedia and cited 842 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #7552 in December 2015
  • Global: #13692 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #78123 in February 2018
  • Global: #138286 in February 2018

There are 2 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Timeline of railway history
58.5114
2French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
42.6184
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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 "Timeline of railway history" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Timeline of railway history
1 452 919
2French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
198 115
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of railway history" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Timeline of railway history
2 780
2French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
445
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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 "Timeline of railway history" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Timeline of railway history
245
2French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
124
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Timeline of railway history" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Timeline of railway history
0
2French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
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 "Timeline of railway history" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Chronologie des chemins de fer
585
2English (en)
Timeline of railway history
257
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Timeline of railway history
frFrench
Chronologie des chemins de fer

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#78123
02.2018
Global:
#138286
02.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7552
12.2015
Global:
#13692
12.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Timeline of railway history from Wikipedia articles about History of rail transport, Steam locomotive, 2025 in rail transport, Diolkos and 2024 in rail transport. Whereas reading the article about Timeline of railway history people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rut, Richard Trevithick, Reisszug, Funicular and Diolkos.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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