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railway signal

optical, acoustic or electronic signal providing information about the state of a railway line
Class type of: railway facility, device Q862562

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
signal generator
Subclass of
railway facility, device[2][3]
Part of
rail infrastructure[4]
Has use
railway signalling system, rail safety[5][6]
Facet of
railway signalling system[7]
Different from
railway signal[9]
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T102226Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10]
OpenStreetMap tag
railway=signal[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en rail transport signal en railway signal ar إشارات السكك الحديدية cs železniční návěstidlo da jernbanesignal de Eisenbahnsignal es Senal de ferrocarril es señal de ferrocarril es Senales de ferrocarril es señales de ferrocarril es Senal ferroviaria fa چراغ راه‌آهن fi Opastin fi Esiopastin fi Opaste fi Pääopastin fi Raideopastin fi Rautateiden opastimet fi Rautatien opastimet fi Rautatien opastin
🔖 Identifiers · 22
GND ID
4130884-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
POL semafor Krynica.JPG ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
55310
Dewey Decimal Classification
625.165
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
1Zkiqg
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
118888
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/railroad-signal
Freebase ID
/m/01pb0_
GeoNames feature code
S.RSGNL
Iconclass notation
46C1544
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
railway-signals
KBpedia ID
RailwaySignal
Show all 22 identifiers +10
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2781240693
Museum-digital tag ID
17842
NL CR AUT ID
ph301320
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
11409
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
Märkisch-Oderland District
SVKKL authority ID
0227076-zeleznicni-navesti
Topic's main category
Category:Rail transport signals
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
92733
YSO ID
2948
Yale LUX ID
concept/b6a89da0-b6cb-4db7-b700-caa59808ab6e

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 6
mechanical railway signal, main signal, railway kilometre sign, distant signal, Swiss railway signalling, railway signals in Germany
Examples 2
Railway border marker, Tyer's Electric Train Tablet
Has use 2
railway signalling system, rail safety
← Has use 2
detonator, signal
Belongs to 1
rail infrastructure
Facet of 1
railway signalling system
Instance of 1
signal generator
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Part of 1
rail infrastructure
Subclass of 1
device
Topic's main category 1
Category:Rail transport signals
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Rail transport signals
← Facet of 1
signal passed at danger
← Organizational division 1
i-Trans cluster for railways and urban transport
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Summary

railway signal is a signal generator[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 11w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → Märkisch-Oderland District
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48943: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 1Zkiqg
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0227076-zeleznicni-navesti
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0227076-zeleznicni-navesti, batch #259497"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → railway signalling system
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → railway facility, device
    Instance of → signal generator
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 2948, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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