British Rail

Quality:

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 and the 178^th most popular company in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “British Rail” in Simple English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 5339^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 178^th most popular in business in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2393^rd most popular in business.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5409^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “British Rail”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5339^th place) and edited by 950 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

British Rail is on the 178^th place in local ranking of business in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2393^rd place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 512 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5114^th place) and cited 9358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5 in May 2010
• Global: #368 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1073 in May 2010
• 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

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

#	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

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		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

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		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

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		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

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

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