Track ballast

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Track ballast

Quality:

Track ballast - trackbed upon which railroad ties are laid. Article “Track ballast” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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 “Track ballast”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 372 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1634 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #5309 in January 2010
  • Global: #34383 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #24829 in January 2010
  • Global: #99936 in June 2016

There are 20 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)
Track ballast
47.9591
2Indonesian (id)
Kricak
31.2425
3Simple English (simple)
Track ballast
26.1697
4Spanish (es)
Balasto
23.0653
5Turkish (tr)
Balast (demiryolu)
23.0468
6Arabic (ar)
حصى سكك حديدية
22.3658
7French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
21.4893
8Portuguese (pt)
Balastro (caminho de ferro)
18.0433
9Swedish (sv)
Ballast (järnvägsspår)
16.9131
10Galician (gl)
Balastro
15.7898
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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 "Track ballast" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Track ballast
1 144 620
2Spanish (es)
Balasto
564 230
3Japanese (ja)
バラスト軌道
467 473
4French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
326 597
5Chinese (zh)
道碴
148 009
6Russian (ru)
Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
109 979
7Indonesian (id)
Kricak
53 085
8Portuguese (pt)
Balastro (caminho de ferro)
37 061
9Swedish (sv)
Ballast (järnvägsspår)
34 559
10Persian (fa)
پارسنگ
32 929
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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 "Track ballast" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Track ballast
4 514
2Spanish (es)
Balasto
1 670
3French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
1 525
4Japanese (ja)
バラスト軌道
1 088
5Chinese (zh)
道碴
637
6Russian (ru)
Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
298
7Italian (it)
Ballast (ferrovia)
291
8Swedish (sv)
Ballast (järnvägsspår)
143
9Indonesian (id)
Kricak
136
10Turkish (tr)
Balast (demiryolu)
117
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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 "Track ballast" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Track ballast
99
2French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
51
3Japanese (ja)
バラスト軌道
38
4Spanish (es)
Balasto
35
5Chinese (zh)
道碴
25
6Swedish (sv)
Ballast (järnvägsspår)
16
7Hebrew (he)
רבד
14
8Russian (ru)
Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
14
9Portuguese (pt)
Balastro (caminho de ferro)
12
10Hungarian (hu)
Ágyazat
11
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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 "Track ballast" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
バラスト軌道
1
2Arabic (ar)
حصى سكك حديدية
0
3Belarusian (be)
Баласт (пуцявая гаспадарка)
0
4Catalan (ca)
Balast
0
5English (en)
Track ballast
0
6Spanish (es)
Balasto
0
7Persian (fa)
پارسنگ
0
8French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
0
9Galician (gl)
Balastro
0
10Hebrew (he)
רבד
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 "Track ballast" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Track ballast
401
2Chinese (zh)
道碴
264
3French (fr)
Ballast (chemin de fer)
253
4Japanese (ja)
バラスト軌道
186
5Indonesian (id)
Kricak
129
6Portuguese (pt)
Balastro (caminho de ferro)
106
7Spanish (es)
Balasto
84
8Russian (ru)
Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
60
9Italian (it)
Ballast (ferrovia)
44
10Ukrainian (uk)
Баласт (колійне господарство)
22
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Scores

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Global:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حصى سكك حديدية
beBelarusian
Баласт (пуцявая гаспадарка)
caCatalan
Balast
enEnglish
Track ballast
esSpanish
Balasto
faPersian
پارسنگ
frFrench
Ballast (chemin de fer)
glGalician
Balastro
heHebrew
רבד
huHungarian
Ágyazat
idIndonesian
Kricak
itItalian
Ballast (ferrovia)
jaJapanese
バラスト軌道
ptPortuguese
Balastro (caminho de ferro)
ruRussian
Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
simpleSimple English
Track ballast
svSwedish
Ballast (järnvägsspår)
trTurkish
Balast (demiryolu)
ukUkrainian
Баласт (колійне господарство)
zhChinese
道碴

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#24829
01.2010
Global:
#99936
06.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5309
01.2010
Global:
#34383
01.2010

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Track ballast from Wikipedia articles about Ballastless track, Railway track, Railroad tie, Ballast and Ballast. Whereas reading the article about Track ballast people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Ballastless track, Railroad tie, Ballast tamper, Track bed and Railway track.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 道碴
id: Kricak
he: רבד
ca: Balast

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