View source for Network Rail API Platform

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.

{| class="wikitable"
! API
! Endpoint
! Usage
|-
| BPLAN (Reference Data) API
| https://data.networkrail.co.uk/api/pifgeography/v1/train/referenceDataFile
| [[BPLAN_Geography|BPLAN Geography File]]
|}

== Suspension of registration ==
Network Rail have suspended new registrations, archived and current BPLAN files can be downloaded from this wiki [[BPLAN Geography Data|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'.