Great Western Railway (train operating company)

Quality:

Great Western Railway - train operating company in Great Britain. This company is the 3156^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 365^th most popular company in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Great Western Railway (train operating company)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 5 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:

The 365^th most popular in business in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3156^th most popular in business.

Since the creation of article “Great Western Railway (train operating company)”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 804 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Great Western Railway is on the 365^th place in local ranking of business in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3156^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 105 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3073 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #363 in August 2021
• Global: #5207 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #178 in February 2013
• Global: #59501 in June 2008

There are 10 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) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		94.981
2	Spanish (es) Great Western Railway (operador ferroviario)		37.7451
3	Polish (pl) Great Western Railway (2015)		35.9032
4	German (de) Great Western Railway (2015)		33.1355
5	Simple English (simple) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		29.452
6	Chinese (zh) 大西部鐵路公司		28.3997
7	Dutch (nl) Great Western Railway (2015)		22.3044
8	Japanese (ja) グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ		10.0318
9	French (fr) Great Western Railway (opérateur ferroviaire)		7.8776
10	Italian (it) Great Western Railway (operatore ferroviario)		4.1943

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		2 924 574
2	Japanese (ja) グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ		87 426
3	German (de) Great Western Railway (2015)		62 966
4	Polish (pl) Great Western Railway (2015)		29 401
5	French (fr) Great Western Railway (opérateur ferroviaire)		24 420
6	Chinese (zh) 大西部鐵路公司		19 577
7	Italian (it) Great Western Railway (operatore ferroviario)		17 202
8	Simple English (simple) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		16 003
9	Dutch (nl) Great Western Railway (2015)		10 982
10	Spanish (es) Great Western Railway (operador ferroviario)		4 292

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) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		15 491
2	Japanese (ja) グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ		358
3	Chinese (zh) 大西部鐵路公司		306
4	German (de) Great Western Railway (2015)		302
5	Simple English (simple) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		221
6	French (fr) Great Western Railway (opérateur ferroviaire)		154
7	Italian (it) Great Western Railway (operatore ferroviario)		97
8	Polish (pl) Great Western Railway (2015)		76
9	Spanish (es) Great Western Railway (operador ferroviario)		68
10	Dutch (nl) Great Western Railway (2015)		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		638
2	German (de) Great Western Railway (2015)		36
3	French (fr) Great Western Railway (opérateur ferroviaire)		36
4	Italian (it) Great Western Railway (operatore ferroviario)		22
5	Simple English (simple) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		20
6	Japanese (ja) グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ		15
7	Dutch (nl) Great Western Railway (2015)		15
8	Chinese (zh) 大西部鐵路公司		9
9	Polish (pl) Great Western Railway (2015)		8
10	Spanish (es) Great Western Railway (operador ferroviario)		5

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) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		3
2	Chinese (zh) 大西部鐵路公司		1
3	German (de) Great Western Railway (2015)		0
4	Spanish (es) Great Western Railway (operador ferroviario)		0
5	French (fr) Great Western Railway (opérateur ferroviaire)		0
6	Italian (it) Great Western Railway (operatore ferroviario)		0
7	Japanese (ja) グレート・ウェスタン・レールウェイ		0
8	Dutch (nl) Great Western Railway (2015)		0
9	Polish (pl) Great Western Railway (2015)		0
10	Simple English (simple) Great Western Railway (train operating company)		0

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

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