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railroad switch

mechanical installation providing a branching of a railway track
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Summary

railroad switch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,500 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: track switch[2], switches and crossings[3]
  • Part of: railway station[4]
  • Commons category: Railway points[5]
  • Has part(s): rail track[6], stock rail[7], check rail[8], point frog[9], points[10], Q114076267[11], point heating[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: railway=switch[13]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[14]
  • Short name: AMV[15]

Why It Matters

railroad switch has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q5539
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002910-zeleznicni-vyhybky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002910-zeleznicni-vyhybky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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