CORPUS, BPLAN and STANOX/STANME data

[Peter Hicks]

All,

Just to make everyone aware - on RDM there are three data products published by OpenTrainTimes:

1. CORPUS location codes - updated weekly on a Friday
2. BPLAN data for the current and next two timetable periods - updated weekly on a Friday
3. Mappings of STANOX to STANME - updated weekly on a Sunday morning

The first two are in their native format, no changes.  The third is a subset of a TOPS dataset from which I've just pulled out the STANOX and STANME codes.

If you're grabbing the existing BPLAN and/or CORPUS from NROD, you might want to consider switching over to getting them from the RDM, as they're updated within hours of change, rather than anything up to six months after the event in the case of BPLAN.

For transparency, nobody's paying me to do this (as per the publication of passenger consist data to RDM) and I believe this sort of 'low-hanging fruit' data needs to be published on a JDFI basis.

Peter