British Rail

Quality:

British Rail - British state-owned rail transport operator (1948–1997). This company is the 2431^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 227^th most popular company in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “British Rail” in Simple English Wikipedia has 72 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5410^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 227^th most popular in business in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2431^st most popular in business.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3359^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “British Rail”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5410^th place) and edited by 978 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

British Rail is on the 227^th place in local ranking of business in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2431^st place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 512 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5232^nd place) and cited 9738 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5 in May 2010
• Global: #367 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1078 in May 2010
• Global: #48892 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, 2026 (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		98.3632
2	Portuguese (pt) British Rail		74.9973
3	Simple English (simple) British Rail		72.0308
4	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		59.3391
5	German (de) British Rail		41.1577
6	Norwegian (no) British Rail		36.6628
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		31.3175
8	Hebrew (he) בריטיש רייל		30.5259
9	Spanish (es) British Rail		29.4931
10	Swedish (sv) British Rail		29.4291

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Rail		3 158 468
2	German (de) British Rail		235 045
3	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		204 822
4	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		137 719
5	French (fr) British Rail		64 545
6	Italian (it) British Railways		62 312
7	Dutch (nl) British Rail		45 326
8	Polish (pl) British Rail		40 899
9	Russian (ru) British Rail		39 066
10	Czech (cs) British Rail		29 506

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) British Rail		12 016
2	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		734
3	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		722
4	German (de) British Rail		587
5	Simple English (simple) British Rail		405
6	French (fr) British Rail		176
7	Italian (it) British Railways		166
8	Spanish (es) British Rail		135
9	Polish (pl) British Rail		87
10	Russian (ru) British Rail		71

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Rail		469
2	German (de) British Rail		61
3	French (fr) British Rail		58
4	Dutch (nl) British Rail		51
5	Italian (it) British Railways		40
6	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		36
7	Simple English (simple) British Rail		35
8	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		34
9	Hungarian (hu) British Railways		30
10	Czech (cs) British Rail		25

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	English (en) British Rail		8
2	Czech (cs) British Rail		1
3	Japanese (ja) イギリス国鉄		1
4	Chinese (zh) 英国铁路		1
5	Catalan (ca) 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

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information