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arrangement of railway signal apparatus to prevent conflicting movements of trains
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interlocking

Summary

interlocking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (128 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • interlocking's subclass of is recorded as railway signalling system[2].
  • interlocking's subclass of is recorded as interlock[3].
  • interlocking's Commons category is recorded as Interlocking machines[4].
  • interlocking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04b150[5].
  • interlocking's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as railway:signal_box=track_diagram[6].
  • interlocking's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/interlocking-railroad-signal[7].
  • interlocking's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778844933[8].
  • interlocking's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3923919[9].
  • interlocking's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778844933[10].

Why It Matters

interlocking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (128 views/month).[1] interlocking has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). interlocking. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/interlocking
MLA “interlocking.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/interlocking.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_interlocking_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{interlocking}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/interlocking}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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