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Great Eastern Railway

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Great Eastern Railway

Summary

Great Eastern Railway is a railway company[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Eastern Railway is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Great Eastern Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[4].
  • Great Eastern Railway's coat of arms image is recorded as Great Eastern Railway Shield.jpg[5].
  • Great Eastern Railway's logo image is recorded as Great Eastern Railway Shield.jpg[6].
  • Great Eastern Railway's followed by is recorded as London and North Eastern Railway[7].
  • Great Eastern Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 124303735[8].
  • Great Eastern Railway's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n50054996[9].
  • Great Eastern Railway's Commons category is recorded as Great Eastern Railway[10].
  • +1862-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Great Eastern Railway[11].
  • Great Eastern Railway was dissolved in +1923-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Great Eastern Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02_c5v[13].
  • Great Eastern Railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great Eastern Railway[14].
  • Great Eastern Railway's described by source is recorded as Signalling Record Society line data[15].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Eastern Counties Railway[16].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Northern and Eastern Railway[17].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway[18].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as East Norfolk Railway[19].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway[20].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Lynn and Dereham Railway[21].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Norfolk Railway[22].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as West Norfolk Junction Railway[23].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Ely and Newmarket Railway[24].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaces is recorded as Swaffham Branch[25].
  • Great Eastern Railway's replaced by is recorded as London and North Eastern Railway[26].
  • Great Eastern Railway's date of official opening is recorded as +1862-00-00T00:00:00Z[27].

Body

Founding

+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Great Eastern Railway[11].

Identity

Great Eastern Railway's followed by is recorded as London and North Eastern Railway[7]. Its short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'GER'}[28].

Dissolution

Great Eastern Railway was dissolved in +1923-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].

Why It Matters

Great Eastern Railway ranks in the top 8% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (144 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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