operator codes
keith drew
This may not be of any relevance to the group, but just in case I
thought I'd post...
In the old days of PT timetable data, well ten years ago, the operator
codes were traditionally 3 alphanumeric characters which alluded to
the operator. Recently, well since PT timetable data became
'open' (NPTDR releases) the operator codes have started to become
numeric with no relevance to the operator name - Greater Manchester
data being particularly affected by this.
Not sure if the data received from GMPTE (TfGM as it is now) suffers a
similar fate or not (I just used the NPTDR released data), but if it
does, send me an email/point me in the direction of somewhere to
download and I'll forward the operator code to operator name lookup.
As an example, 1949 operator code = Finglands. Note, as this covers
many regions the operator codes (alphanumeric) can duplicate in the
list, so come care/caution is required if you do use it.
Thanks to Thales for releasing this list by the way.
Keith
Julian Tait
These are the operator codes that seem to be used in Bus Fare Tables and also the ATCO-CIF Bus Timetables where each of the codes are prefixed by a QN. Not having looked at the NPTDR set, are the bus operator identifiers not unique?
BTW These are a few months old. But I imagine there hasn't been that much change.
Cheers
Julian
OPERATOR TRADE NAME
ABC Atherton Bus Company
ACT Accrington Transport
ARL Arriva Liverpool
ASH Ashall's Coaches
ATC Aintree Coachlines
ATV Amber Travel
BAK Bakerbus
BBC Bluebird Bus & Coach
BBL Blue Bus
BBS Blue Bus
BBT Blackburn Transport
BDT Blackburn with Darwen T'sport
BEE Arriva Manchester
BEL South Lancs Travel
BEV Belle Vue Coaches
BPT Burnley & Pendle
BRA Bradshaws Coaches
BUL R Bullock Buses
BUV Bu-Val Buses
BWS Bowers Coaches
CAL First Yorkshire West
CHC Chester's Coaches
CLK Click Services
CNC Clifton Coaches
COA The Coachmasters
COU Courtesy Coaches
CRO Arriva Cymru
CSL Coachways
CSS Coach Services
CTY County Coaches
DEN Dennis's Coaches
DGC D & G Coach & Bus
DVY Douglas Valley Bus & Coach
ELS Ellen Smith Tours
FCH Finches
FIN Finglands
FPR First Pioneer
FRE Freebird Coaches
GCO G B Coaches
GMB GM Buses
GMN First
GMS Stagecoach Manchester
GOO Go Goodwins
GTB South Lancs Travel
HAY Hayton's Coaches
HBC Huddersfield Bus Company
HHC Hulme Hall Coaches
HTL HTL Buses
JPX J P Travel
JSC Jim Stones Coaches
KFR First
KMT K'Matt Coaches
LAC L.A. Coaches
LCL Ashall's Coaches
LTL Leisure Travel
LUL Lancashire United
MAY Mayne of Manchester
MET Metrolink
MHT M & H Travel
MRT M R Travel
MTL Arriva Merseyside
MTR M Travel Mini Buses
MTT Maytree Travel
MYB U. K. North
NBE Northern Blue
NOR Arriva North West
OLY Olympia Travel
PIO Pioneer Travel
PMT First
RAM Houston Ram
RDT Rossendale Transport
RIT Rothwells Super Travel
RKT Red Kite Travel
RMS Stagecoach In Lancashire
RSL Strawberry Bus
RWC Ringwood Luxury Coaches
RWY Ringway Minibus
SFC Springfield Coachways
SPL Speedwellbus
SPO Pioneer Travel
STE Arriva Midlands North
STO Stott's of Oldham
SUR Sureway Travel
SWA Swans Travel
TAN Checkmate Mini Coaches
TLB Town Lynx Buses
TLT Timeline Travel
TML Travel Master
TMT Trent Buses
TSB Tattersall's Bus & Coach
TTL TM Travel
TTS Thor Tpt (assoc with Bluebird
TWM Williams Coaches
TYT Tyrer Bus
VAL Vale of Manchester
VIK Viking Coaches
VLL Vale of Llangollen Travel
WBC Arriva Manchester (Wigan Area)
WBL Wigan Buses
WBT Warrington Borough Transport
WCW Bennett's
WES Midwest Buses
WML Manchester Community Transport
WTZ W. Tresize
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keith drew
Thats interesting, as the codes are as they should be and always have
been in your list, which suggests the operator codes are changed later
on in the process for the version released via NPTDR. I'm guessing
this is by Traveline, Thales don't do this anyway. Strangely they
don't change the codes for all regions to numerics, which with a list
would be handy!
Codes for GM should be unique, and never change even if the company
name does (Stagecoach and First still have the old GM South and GM
North codes), but working with multi regional data and the codes start
to be duplicated.
Keith