railway track

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railway track

Summary

railway track ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (574 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • railway track's image is recorded as Curving Railroad Tracks PLC-RR-3.jpg[2].
  • railway track's made from material is recorded as steel[3].
  • railway track's made from material is recorded as prestressed concrete[4].
  • railway track's made from material is recorded as girder[5].
  • railway track's GND ID is recorded as 4021250-6[6].
  • railway track's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85111063[7].
  • railway track's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119316998[8].
  • railway track's subclass of is recorded as rail infrastructure[9].
  • railway track's subclass of is recorded as way[10].
  • railway track's part of is recorded as rail infrastructure[11].
  • railway track's part of is recorded as railway[12].
  • railway track's part of is recorded as permanent way[13].
  • railway track's part of is recorded as steel roller coaster[14].
  • railway track's part of is recorded as railway station[15].
  • railway track's has use is recorded as rail transport[16].
  • railway track's Commons category is recorded as Rail tracks[17].
  • railway track's said to be the same as is recorded as rail track[18].
  • railway track's Unicode character is recorded as 🛤[19].
  • railway track's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 25795[20].
  • railway track's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vk9q[21].
  • railway track's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph629409[22].
  • railway track's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rail tracks[23].
  • railway track's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 385.312[24].
  • railway track's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10663176[25].
  • railway track's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 427724[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for railway track include Amtrak[27], a railway company[28], in United States[29], founded in 1971[30], headquartered in Washington Union Station[31].

Why It Matters

railway track ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (574 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include Amtrak[27], a railway company[28], in United States[29], founded in 1971[30], headquartered in Washington Union Station[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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