Geospatial data from Network Rail

[Peter Hicks]

All,

I made a request to Network Rail to release some sets of geospatial data under FOI/EIR.  I'm pleased to say they've responded with the data, published under the Open Government Licence (OGL).

To make it easier to re-use, I've uploaded the data - without any changes to the shapefiles - at https://github.com/openraildata/network-rail-gis

Please comment on this thread if you find the data useful.

Peter

[Matt Carlson]

Hello Peter,

This dataset looks good!  Geographically, it looks very rich - but does anyone know whether there is a linkage between the various fields to TIPLOCs for  instance?

Thanks for posting this,

Matt

[Peter Hicks]

HI Matt

This is just a representation of the physical layout - the train planning domain isn't mapped on to it.

Various bits of data exist which list the latitude/longitude of TIPLOCs, but I am not aware of any official source, nor am I aware of any unofficial source which does not have restrictions or caveats on reuse (e.g. attribution, non-commercial only).

Peter

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[Mike F (Hastings Line)]

Wow, this is really useful - I just published an app for travel on the Hastings Line with map data and ended up tracing and encoding the rail route by hand

Mike (hastingsline.travel)

[Legolash2o]

The geospatial data is great as you can do things like this:

https://railmap.azurewebsites.net/Public/Route?origin=CHRX&via1=WLOE&via2=EWERSTJ&via3=LNDNBDE&via4=BLUANCR&via5=NWCROSS&via6=NWCRTHJ&via7=PKBGJN&via8=HTHRGRN&via9=GRVPK&via10=CHSLHRS&via11=PETSWDJ&via12=ORPNGTN&via13=SVNOAKS&via14=TONBDG&via15=SMHLTUN&via16=HBROOMS&via17=TUNWTJN&via18=TUNWELL&via19=STWHTNL&via20=FRANT&via21=WADHRST&via22=WADHTLS&via23=SNGT&via24=ETCHNGM&via25=RBRTSBD&via26=MNTFLDT&via27=BATTLE&via28=CRWHRST&via29=WSLE&via30=BOPEEPJ&via31=STLNRWS&destination=HASTING

[Adrian Hicks]

This looks amazing. I’ve been searching for weeks for geospatial data for the UK rail network. Until now I’ve been forced to use Overpass-turbo and OSM to try and pull data that I’ve then had to parse through GPSVisualizer. It has been a massive faff and has resulted in many hours of manual labour.

Could someone tell me how would I start trying to use this data? My python is infant level. 

A little background in what I’m trying to do and the data I would normally work with. I’m trying to create motion graphics with geospatial correct data. This is integrated to map tiles pulled from various servers. This is all used in Adobe’s After Effects using a plugin called Geolayers3. Normally I’d use a GPX file or if available JSON data, for a route.

This dataset seems to be just the ticket [sorry]

But understanding how to utilise it is my hurdle.

And and all info very gratefully received.

Cheers

Adrian

[Luke Scott]

Hi,

Im a student looking to use some of this data for some climate change analysis based around the uk rail network, this seems like the perfect thing for me but i fall down on knowing how to access the data.

Could anyone provide a guide/point me in the direction of some instructions as to how this data can be visualised on a map?

any help would be much appreciated.

Luke. 

[Adrian Hicks]

I've discovered a site called https://mapshaper.org/ this allows you to import the data from github and then you can even select the features of interest and export only those. 
Seems to be very lightweight and handy.
I've created the start of a project which you can see here; 
https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ap5IR9dQ9eMPgdohmp1MRZH5BP_zRQ?e=HOz7Vq

[Luke Scott]

Cool I will have to check that out as well, thanks for the update!

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[Peter Hicks]

All,

This data has now been updated to March 2023 and is at https://github.com/openraildata/network-rail-gis/releases/tag/20230317-01

Peter

[Ajay Gupta]

Hello all,

This data set and the tool/app in the link https://railmap.azurewebsites.net/ is extremely useful! Thank you for sharing this.

Could someone help me understand if there exists an identifier variable that assigns a up or down direction to each network link? 

If not, can it be inferred from the other attributes?

Thank you,

Ajay 

[Legolash2o]

There should be a TRID value which indicates the direction and type of track.

[Ajay Gupta]

Thank you so much Legolash2o!

This is exactly what I was looking for.