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rail trail

Summary

rail trail ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (424 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rail trail is a type of greenway[2].
  • rail trail is a type of abandoned railway[3].
  • rail trail is a type of bikeway[4].
  • rail trail's Commons category is recorded as Rail trails[5].
  • rail trail's said to be the same as is recorded as rail-trail cycle path[6].
  • rail trail's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rail trails[7].
  • rail trail's structure replaces is recorded as railway line[8].
  • rail trail's different from is recorded as greenway[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include greenway[2], abandoned railway[3], and bikeway[4].

Why It Matters

rail trail ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (424 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → rail-trail cycle path
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → greenway, abandoned railway, bikeway
    Openstreetmap tag → railway=abandoned
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007544309005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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