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buffer stop

device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track
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buffer stop

Summary

buffer stop ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (451 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • buffer stop is a type of dead end track[2].
  • buffer stop is a type of railway track[3].
  • buffer stop's Commons category is recorded as Buffer stops[4].
  • buffer stop's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as railway=buffer_stop[5].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include dead end track[2] and railway track[3].

Why It Matters

buffer stop ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (451 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[7]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_buffer-stop_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{buffer stop}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/buffer-stop}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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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. 3d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6574
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 4w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295136
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295136, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 9w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    Subclass of → dead end track, railway track
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
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