History of the London Underground

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History of the London Underground

Quality:

History of the London Underground - history of the underground transportation system in London, United Kingdom. Article “History of the London Underground” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.31 points.

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 “History of the London Underground”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 286 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 193 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #662 in December 2017
  • Global: #3670 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #25952 in December 2017
  • Global: #100228 in January 2023

There are 8 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)
History of the London Underground
100
2German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
90.4691
3French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
73.5053
4Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
48.5252
5Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
18.4852
6Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
11.9905
7Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
11.5329
8Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
5.9137
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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 "History of the London Underground" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of the London Underground
1 023 724
2Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
94 559
3Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
39 548
4Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
33 059
5French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
23 562
6Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
11 323
7German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
2 509
8Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
1 834
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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 "History of the London Underground" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of the London Underground
4 270
2German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
552
3French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
152
4Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
111
5Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
96
6Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
54
7Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
33
8Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
29
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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 "History of the London Underground" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of the London Underground
173
2French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
25
3Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
21
4Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
18
5Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
18
6German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
14
7Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
12
8Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
5
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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 "History of the London Underground" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
3
2English (en)
History of the London Underground
1
3Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
1
4Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
0
5French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
0
6Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
0
7Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
0
8Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
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 "History of the London Underground" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
History of the London Underground
121
2French (fr)
Histoire du métro de Londres
27
3Portuguese (pt)
História do Metropolitano de Londres
23
4Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
7
5Italian (it)
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
6
6Simple English (simple)
History of the London Underground
4
7German (de)
Geschichte der U-Bahn
3
8Spanish (es)
Historia del Metro de Londres
2
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Geschichte der U-Bahn
enEnglish
History of the London Underground
esSpanish
Historia del Metro de Londres
frFrench
Histoire du métro de Londres
heHebrew
היסטוריה של הרכבת התחתית של לונדון
itItalian
Storia della metropolitana di Londra
ptPortuguese
História do Metropolitano de Londres
simpleSimple English
History of the London Underground

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#25952
12.2017
Global:
#100228
01.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#662
12.2017
Global:
#3670
03.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History of the London Underground from Wikipedia articles about London Underground, Rapid transit, List of terrorist incidents in Great Britain, London Underground infrastructure and Timeline of the London Underground. Whereas reading the article about History of the London Underground people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Metropolitan Railway, Circle line, City and South London Railway, London Underground and District Railway.

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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