standard-gauge railway

rail track gauge – international standard gauge (1435 mm, 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
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standard-gauge railway

Summary

standard-gauge railway is a track gauge[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of track_gauge entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (590 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • standard-gauge railway's image is recorded as Baulk road point with side step.jpg[3].
  • standard-gauge railway's instance of is recorded as track gauge[4].
  • George Stephenson is named after standard-gauge railway[5].
  • standard-gauge railway's GND ID is recorded as 4172030-1[6].
  • standard-gauge railway's Commons category is recorded as 1435 mm track gauge[7].
  • standard-gauge railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/075hw[8].
  • standard-gauge railway's significant event is recorded as Royal Commission on Railway Gauges[9].
  • standard-gauge railway's significant event is recorded as Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846[10].
  • standard-gauge railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Standard-gauge railways[11].
  • standard-gauge railway's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as gauge=1435[12].
  • standard-gauge railway's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/standard-gauge[13].
  • standard-gauge railway's used by is recorded as high-speed rail[14].
  • standard-gauge railway's used by is recorded as Liverpool and Manchester Railway[15].
  • standard-gauge railway's different from is recorded as Standard Gauge[16].
  • standard-gauge railway's width is recorded as {'unit': 'Q174789', 'amount': '+1435'}[17].
  • standard-gauge railway's Lex ID is recorded as normalspor[18].
  • standard-gauge railway's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 표준궤[19].
  • standard-gauge railway's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 68152[20].

Why It Matters

standard-gauge railway ranks in the top 6% of track_gauge entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (590 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 115 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . taginfo.openstreetmap.org. taginfo.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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