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London and South Western Railway

British pre-grouping railway company
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London and South Western Railway

Summary

London and South Western Railway is a railway company[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • London and South Western Railway is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • London and South Western Railway's image is recorded as Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911) (14778864773).jpg[4].
  • London and South Western Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[5].
  • London and South Western Railway's headquarters location is recorded as London Waterloo station[6].
  • London and South Western Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130258735[7].
  • London and South Western Railway's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n85292391[8].
  • London and South Western Railway's part of is recorded as Southern Railway[9].
  • London and South Western Railway's Commons category is recorded as London and South Western Railway[10].
  • +1838-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of London and South Western Railway[11].
  • London and South Western Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l30p[12].
  • London and South Western Railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:London and South Western Railway[13].
  • London and South Western Railway's described by source is recorded as Signalling Record Society line data[14].
  • London and South Western Railway's replaces is recorded as London and Southampton Railway[15].
  • London and South Western Railway's replaces is recorded as Salisbury and Yeovil Railway[16].
  • London and South Western Railway's replaced by is recorded as Southern Railway[17].
  • London and South Western Railway's date of official opening is recorded as +1840-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • London and South Western Railway's British Museum person or institution ID is recorded as 141363[19].
  • London and South Western Railway's BabelNet ID is recorded as 01845533n[20].
  • London and South Western Railway's National Library of Wales Authority ID is recorded as london-south-western-railway-company[21].
  • London and South Western Railway's Grace's Guide ID is recorded as London_and_South_Western_Railway[22].
  • London and South Western Railway's Science Museum people ID is recorded as cp3879[23].
  • London and South Western Railway's RailScot line or company ID is recorded as L/London_and_South_Western_Railway/[24].
  • London and South Western Railway's SNARC ID is recorded as Des Knaben Wunderhorn[25].
  • London and South Western Railway's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/b18fde53-3561-4d2f-badc-d7a61f578bd7[26].

Body

Founding

+1838-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of London and South Western Railway[11].

Identity

London and South Western Railway's part of is recorded as Southern Railway[9].

Operations

London and South Western Railway's headquarters location is recorded as London Waterloo station[6].

Why It Matters

London and South Western Railway ranks in the top 8% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . BabelNet. 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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