CRS (the old mainframe Computer Reservation System) used them, but they are more generally known as tlcs.
Richard 2009/9/25 Péter Connell <[email protected]> > They are CRS codes. > > Richard Mann wrote: > > UK railway term for the three letter code (eg EUS for Euston) is (wait > > for it): tlc > > (most railway locations also have a 5-digit stanox, a 4-digit national > > location code (nlc), a tiploc and several more, but for stations, the > > tlc is the nearest to a meaningful short code) > > I'd suggest something like tlc_ref > > Richard > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: *John McKerrell* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just > > "Place" ? > > To: > > Cc: Talk OSM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > > > On the subject of railway stations. I think it would be good if tagged > > them with their reference codes (no idea what the correct term is), > > all the stations in the UK have codes and if you know them it's > > quicker to use them while searching. I'm not such a geek I know all of > > them but the ones I use regularly I tend to know (in the UK they're > > also useful for the traintimes.org.uk <http://traintimes.org.uk/> > > site, e.g. http://traintimes.org.uk/sav/eus > > gets the next trains from Stratford-upon-Avon to London Euston). > > > > Just spotted the wiki mentions uic_ref so would this go under ref, or > > nr_ref (national rail) or something else? > > > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-transit mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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