railway

interconnected network of infrastructure used for train rail transport
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railway

Summary

railway is an ambiguous Wikidata item[1]. railway has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • railway's instance of is recorded as ambiguous Wikidata item[3].
  • railway is a type of railway system[4].
  • railway is a type of railway network[5].
  • railway is a type of rail infrastructure[6].
  • railway is used for rail transport[7].
  • railway is used for rail and rope guided transport[8].
  • railway's Commons category is recorded as Rail transport[9].
  • railway's said to be the same as is recorded as railway system[10].
  • railway comprises rail infrastructure[11].
  • railway comprises rolling stock[12].
  • railway comprises railway line[13].
  • railway comprises railway station[14].
  • railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Railroads[15].
  • railway's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Trains[16].
  • railway's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as route=railway[17].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[18].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[19].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Draft History of Qing[23].
  • railway's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • railway's partially coincident with is recorded as enterprise[25].
  • railway's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox rail[26].
  • railway's used by is recorded as railway company[27].

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Cultural Impact

Things named for railway include Chullora Railway Workshops[28], a workshop[29], in Australia[30] and Underground Railroad[31], a resistance movement[32], in United States[33].

Why It Matters

railway has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] railway is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for railway include Chullora Railway Workshops[28], a workshop[29], in Australia[30] and Underground Railroad[31], a resistance movement[32], in United States[33].

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] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . 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] . 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag railroads
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: railroads, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953403|railroads (#289953403)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 16d ago · Legonin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Larousse id divers/wd/33108
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6058]]: divers/wd/33108"
  3. 29d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0001563-zeleznice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001563-zeleznice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 8w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) rail infrastructure, rolling stock, railway line +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31391|batch #31391]]"
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