railway
interconnected network of infrastructure used for train rail transport
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Summary
railway is an ambiguous Wikidata item[1]. railway draws 5,294 Wikipedia views per month (ambiguous wikidata item category, ranking #4 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: railway system[3], railway network[4], rail infrastructure[5], way[6]
- Has use: rail transport[7], rail and rope guided transport[8]
- Commons category: Rail transport[9]
- Said to be the same as: railway system[10]
- Has part(s): rail infrastructure[11], rolling stock[12], railway line[13], railway station[14], Lubawka-Královec border crossing[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Railroads[16]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Trains[17]
- OpenStreetMap tag: route=railway[18]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[19], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Draft History of Qing[24]
- Partially coincident with: enterprise[25]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox rail[26]
- Used by: railway company[27]
- Has characteristic: main line[28]
- Different from: rail and rope guided transport[29], rail transport[30], railway company[31]
- Properties for this type: P18[32], P17[33], P1064[34], P2043[35], P930[36], P3858[37], P15[38], P3086[39], P1619[40], P576[41], P127[42], P137[43], P559[44], P3096[45]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000065[46]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[47]
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Cultural Impact
Things named for railway include Underground Railroad[48], a resistance movement[49], in United States[50] and Chullora Railway Workshops[51], a workshop[52], in Australia[53].
Why It Matters
railway has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] railway is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]
Entities named for railway include Underground Railroad[48], a resistance movement[49], in United States[50] and Chullora Railway Workshops[51], a workshop[52], in Australia[53].