British Rail Class 55

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British Rail Class 55

Quality:

British Rail Class 55 - class of 22 Co′Co′ 3300-hp twin-engined diesel-electric locomotives. Article “British Rail Class 55” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “British Rail Class 55”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 125 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 501 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2836 in May 2025
  • Global: #35762 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #12909 in July 2018
  • Global: #139951 in May 2011

There are 9 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)
British Rail Class 55
72.5354
2Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
61.5004
3Dutch (nl)
Class 55
51.0136
4German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
28.9371
5Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
27.9406
6Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
23.3722
7Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
4.9069
8Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
4.0516
9Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
3.0058
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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 "British Rail Class 55" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
British Rail Class 55
1 530 057
2German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
44 099
3Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
28 880
4Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
10 553
5Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
9 256
6Dutch (nl)
Class 55
4 585
7Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
1 217
8Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
1 171
9Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
616
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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 "British Rail Class 55" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
British Rail Class 55
8 697
2German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
669
3Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
224
4Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
101
5Dutch (nl)
Class 55
49
6Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
39
7Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
37
8Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
16
9Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
10
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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 "British Rail Class 55" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
British Rail Class 55
254
2German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
22
3Dutch (nl)
Class 55
18
4Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
8
5Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
5
6Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
5
7Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
2
8Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
2
9Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
2
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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 "British Rail Class 55" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
British Rail Class 55
4
2German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
0
3Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
0
4Dutch (nl)
Class 55
0
5Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
0
6Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
0
7Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
0
8Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
0
9Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
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 "British Rail Class 55" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
British Rail Class 55
235
2Simple English (simple)
British Rail Class 55
125
3Dutch (nl)
Class 55
63
4German (de)
BR-Klasse 55
33
5Japanese (ja)
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
23
6Portuguese (pt)
British Rail Class 55
8
7Russian (ru)
British Rail Class 55
7
8Chinese (zh)
英國鐵路55型柴電機車
5
9Swedish (sv)
British Rail Class 55
2
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Scores

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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
BR-Klasse 55
enEnglish
British Rail Class 55
jaJapanese
イギリス国鉄55形ディーゼル機関車
nlDutch
Class 55
ptPortuguese
British Rail Class 55
ruRussian
British Rail Class 55
simpleSimple English
British Rail Class 55
svSwedish
British Rail Class 55
zhChinese
英國鐵路55型柴電機車

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#12909
07.2018
Global:
#139951
05.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2836
05.2025
Global:
#35762
09.2022

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on British Rail Class 55 from Wikipedia articles about Napier Deltic, List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes, LNER Class A4, Flying Scotsman and Chuggington. Whereas reading the article about British Rail Class 55 people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Napier Deltic, InterCity 125, English Electric DP1, Stoke Bank and British Rail Class 23.

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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