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draisine

small powered rail vehicle used by track maintenance workers
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draisine

Summary

draisine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dandy horse is named after draisine[2].
  • draisine is a type of railway traction vehicle[3].
  • draisine's Commons category is recorded as Draisines[4].
  • draisine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Draisines[5].
  • draisine's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • draisine's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7].
  • draisine's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • draisine's different from is recorded as railbike[9].
  • draisine's different from is recorded as Q18449431[10].

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Definition and Type

draisine is a type of railway traction vehicle[3].

Origins

dandy horse is named after draisine[2].

Why It Matters

draisine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1] draisine has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] draisine is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → dandy horse
    Subclass of → —
    Local thumb → —
    Named after → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 21346, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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