British Rail

British Rail - British state-owned rail transport operator (1948–1997). This company is the 2393^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business. Article “British Rail” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 75.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 20 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “British Rail”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 950 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

British Rail is on the 2393^rd place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 134 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 9358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #4711 in July 2023
• Global: #368 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #164444 in January 2008
• Global: #48705 in June 2008

There are 25 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) British Rail		92.3659
2	Portuguese (pt) British Rail		75.4901
3	Simple English (simple) British Rail		72.2499
4	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		59.3613
5	German (de) British Rail		42.1754
6	Norwegian (no) British Rail		36.7746
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		31.4947
8	Hebrew (he) בריטיש רייל		31.1464
9	Spanish (es) British Rail		29.9842
10	Swedish (sv) British Rail		29.982

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

The most popular language versions of the article "British Rail" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Rail		2 999 084
2	German (de) British Rail		225 884
3	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		194 381
4	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		123 691
5	French (fr) British Rail		62 158
6	Italian (it) British Railways		60 022
7	Dutch (nl) British Rail		44 446
8	Polish (pl) British Rail		39 670
9	Russian (ru) British Rail		37 515
10	Simple English (simple) British Rail		31 364

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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 "British Rail" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Rail		14 145
2	Simple English (simple) British Rail		1 072
3	German (de) British Rail		985
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		698
5	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		673
6	French (fr) British Rail		217
7	Italian (it) British Railways		190
8	Spanish (es) British Rail		155
9	Russian (ru) British Rail		112
10	Dutch (nl) British Rail		96

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Rail		453
2	German (de) British Rail		61
3	French (fr) British Rail		54
4	Dutch (nl) British Rail		49
5	Italian (it) British Railways		39
6	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		34
7	Simple English (simple) British Rail		34
8	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		29
9	Hungarian (hu) British Railways		28
10	Czech (cs) British Rail		23

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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 "British Rail" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Rail		2
2	Italian (it) British Railways		2
3	French (fr) British Rail		1
4	Catalan (ca) British Rail		0
5	Czech (cs) British Rail		0
6	German (de) British Rail		0
7	Esperanto (eo) British Rail		0
8	Spanish (es) British Rail		0
9	Persian (fa) بریتیش ریل		0
10	Finnish (fi) British Rail		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 "British Rail" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) British Rail		5 751
2	German (de) British Rail		577
3	Simple English (simple) British Rail		512
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		367
5	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		309
6	French (fr) British Rail		232
7	Russian (ru) British Rail		218
8	Spanish (es) British Rail		185
9	Italian (it) British Railways		179
10	Turkish (tr) British Rail		157

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan British Rail
cs	Czech British Rail
de	German British Rail
en	English British Rail
eo	Esperanto British Rail
es	Spanish British Rail
fa	Persian بریتیش ریل
fi	Finnish British Rail
fr	French British Rail
he	Hebrew בריטיש רייל
hu	Hungarian British Railways
it	Italian British Railways
ja	Japanese イギリス国鉄
ko	Korean 브리튼 철도
nl	Dutch British Rail
no	Norwegian British Rail
pl	Polish British Rail
pt	Portuguese British Rail
ru	Russian British Rail
simple	Simple English British Rail
sv	Swedish British Rail
tr	Turkish British Rail
uk	Ukrainian British Rail
vi	Vietnamese Đường sắt Anh
zh	Chinese 英国铁路

Best Rank

Portuguese: #164444 01.2008

Global: #48705 06.2008

Best Rank

Portuguese: #4711 07.2023

Global: #368 11.2001

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