Network Rail API Platform
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Through an API platform hosted by Network Rail, various programmatic interfaces to systems and data are available for consumption. There is currently (June, 2023) only one API, and new registrations are suspended.
API | Endpoint | Usage |
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BPLAN (Reference Data) API | https://data.networkrail.co.uk/api/pifgeography/v1/train/referenceDataFile | BPLAN Geography File |
Suspension of registration
Network Rail have suspended new registrations, archived and current BPLAN files can be downloaded from this wiki here.
Requesting access
To request access, users would have emailed opendata@networkrail.co.uk. If granted access, they were given a client ID and client secret. These were passed in the HTTP message header in the fields 'client_id' and 'client_secret'.