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light rail

typically an urban form of public transport using steel-tracked fixed guideways
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Summary

light rail is a train and rail category[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of train and rail category entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,516 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: rapid transit[3]
  • Commons category: Light rail[4]
  • Said to be the same as: fast tram[5]
  • Unicode character: 🚈[6]
  • Has part(s): light rail service[7], light rail system line[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Light rail[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: railway=light_rail[10]
  • Described by source: Green Map Icons[11]
  • Short name: VLT[12]
  • Different from: light railway[13], premetro[14]
  • Has list: Liste des métros légers[15]

Why It Matters

light rail has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . 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. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q7023
    Subclass of → rapid transit
    "/* 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. 18w ago · KatVanHuis · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → light railway, premetro
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Different from: medium-capacity rail transport system"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Said to be the same as → fast tram
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Light rail
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 28052, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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