Flying Scotsman

Quality:

LNER Class A3 4472 “Flying Scotsman” - express steam locomotive. Article “Flying Scotsman” in Swedish Wikipedia has 15.7 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 (Swedish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Flying Scotsman”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 572 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 368 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #685 in February 2016
• Global: #1978 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #4151 in October 2020
• Global: #27239 in February 2016

There are 14 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) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		100
2	German (de) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		74.1772
3	Spanish (es) LNER Clase A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		71.9346
4	Russian (ru) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		64.0815
5	Italian (it) Locomotiva LNER Classe A3 No.4472 "Flying Scotsman"		47.0337
6	Hungarian (hu) Flying Scotsman		32.3157
7	Indonesian (id) Lokomotif Flying Scotsman		31.3614
8	Polish (pl) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		18.5136
9	Japanese (ja) LNER A3形蒸気機関車4472号機 フライング・スコッツマン		16.9815
10	Swedish (sv) Flying Scotsman		15.7149

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		2 266 351
2	Japanese (ja) LNER A3形蒸気機関車4472号機 フライング・スコッツマン		51 457
3	Swedish (sv) Flying Scotsman		43 846
4	German (de) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		36 837
5	Hungarian (hu) Flying Scotsman		19 165
6	Polish (pl) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		14 752
7	Spanish (es) LNER Clase A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		12 434
8	Russian (ru) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		11 946
9	French (fr) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		10 651
10	Simple English (simple) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		3 959

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) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		13 852
2	German (de) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		2 456
3	Japanese (ja) LNER A3形蒸気機関車4472号機 フライング・スコッツマン		470
4	Russian (ru) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		207
5	Polish (pl) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		175
6	Spanish (es) LNER Clase A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		162
7	Swedish (sv) Flying Scotsman		130
8	Hungarian (hu) Flying Scotsman		101
9	Simple English (simple) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		81
10	Indonesian (id) Lokomotif Flying Scotsman		72

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		299
2	German (de) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		180
3	Swedish (sv) Flying Scotsman		16
4	French (fr) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		15
5	Spanish (es) LNER Clase A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		9
6	Hungarian (hu) Flying Scotsman		8
7	Italian (it) Locomotiva LNER Classe A3 No.4472 "Flying Scotsman"		8
8	Polish (pl) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		8
9	Russian (ru) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		8
10	Japanese (ja) LNER A3形蒸気機関車4472号機 フライング・スコッツマン		7

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	German (de) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		2
2	Japanese (ja) LNER A3形蒸気機関車4472号機 フライング・スコッツマン		2
3	Spanish (es) LNER Clase A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		1
4	English (en) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		0
5	French (fr) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Flying Scotsman		0
7	Indonesian (id) Lokomotif Flying Scotsman		0
8	Italian (it) Locomotiva LNER Classe A3 No.4472 "Flying Scotsman"		0
9	Polish (pl) LNER A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		0
10	Russian (ru) LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman		0

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

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