narrow-gauge railway

Summary

narrow-gauge railway ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,442 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• narrow-gauge railway is a type of railway line^[2].
• narrow-gauge railway's Commons category is recorded as Narrow gauge railways^[3].
• narrow-gauge railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Narrow-gauge railways^[4].
• narrow-gauge railway's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as railway=narrow_gauge^[5].
• narrow-gauge railway's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[6].
• narrow-gauge railway's has characteristic is recorded as track gauge^[7].

Body

Definition and Type

narrow-gauge railway is a type of railway line^[2].

Influence

Things named for narrow-gauge railway include Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha^[8], a public enterprise^[9], in Spain^[10], founded in 1965^[11], headquartered in Madrid^[12] and Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway^[13], a rail company (Japan)^[14], in Japan^[15], founded in 2015^[16], headquartered in Yokkaichi^[17].

Why It Matters

narrow-gauge railway ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,442 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] It is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]

Entities named for it include Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha^[8], a public enterprise^[9], in Spain^[10], founded in 1965^[11], headquartered in Madrid^[12] and Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway^[13], a rail company (Japan)^[14], in Japan^[15], founded in 2015^[16], headquartered in Yokkaichi^[17].