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railway gun

artillery piece, mounted on and fired from a specially designed railway car
Product weapon_type Q1049358
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Summary

railway gun is a weapon type[1]. It draws 4,515 Wikipedia views per month (weapon type category, ranking #185 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: siege artillery[3], rolling stock[4]
  • Commons category: Railway guns[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Railway guns[6]
  • Commons gallery: Railway gun[7]

Why It Matters

railway gun has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 5d ago · Estopedist1 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'it', 'j
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Topic's main category: Category:Railway guns"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Railway guns
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → siege artillery, rolling stock
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 25844, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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