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Great Central Railway

British pre-grouping railway company (1897–1922)
Organization railway_company Q688684
Great Central Railway
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Great Central Railway

Summary

Great Central Railway is a railway company[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Central Railway is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Great Central Railway's image is recorded as GCRmap1903.JPG[4].
  • Great Central Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[5].
  • Great Central Railway's coat of arms image is recorded as Great Central Railway Coat of Arms.jpg[6].
  • Great Central Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Manchester[7].
  • Great Central Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 244781688[8].
  • Great Central Railway's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n50054995[9].
  • Great Central Railway's Commons category is recorded as Great Central Railway[10].
  • +1897-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Great Central Railway[11].
  • Great Central Railway was dissolved in +1922-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Great Central Railway's start time is recorded as +1897-08-01T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Great Central Railway's end time is recorded as +1922-12-31T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Great Central Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0194bc[15].
  • Great Central Railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great Central Railway[16].
  • Great Central Railway's described by source is recorded as Signalling Record Society line data[17].
  • Great Central Railway's replaces is recorded as Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway[18].
  • Great Central Railway's replaces is recorded as Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway[19].
  • Great Central Railway's replaced by is recorded as London and North Eastern Railway[20].
  • Great Central Railway's different from is recorded as Grand Central Railway[21].
  • Great Central Railway's Grace's Guide ID is recorded as Great_Central_Railway[22].
  • Great Central Railway's Science Museum people ID is recorded as cp3885[23].
  • Great Central Railway's RailScot line or company ID is recorded as G/Great_Central_Railway/[24].
  • Great Central Railway's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/fb700d2a-3600-4e8f-9163-81f3422cc16e[25].

Body

Founding

+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Great Central Railway[11].

Operations

Great Central Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Manchester[7].

Dissolution

Great Central Railway was dissolved in +1922-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].

Why It Matters

Great Central Railway ranks in the top 6% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Manchester United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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