Stations

A class for collecting railway station data.

Stations.parse_current_operator(x)	Parse ‘Operator’ column :param x: :return:
Stations.collect_railway_station_data_by_initial(initial)	Collect railway station data for the given initial letter.
Stations.fetch_railway_station_data([…])	Fetch railway station data from local backup.

class pyrcs.other_assets.Stations(data_dir=None, update=False)

A class for collecting railway station data.

Parameters:

• data_dir (str, None) – name of data directory, defaults to None
• update (bool) – whether to check on update and proceed to update the package data, defaults to False

Example:

from pyrcs.other_assets import Stations

stn = Stations()

print(stn.Name)
# Stations

print(stn.SourceURL)
# http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/stations/station0.shtm

static parse_current_operator(x)

Parse ‘Operator’ column :param x: :return:

collect_railway_station_data_by_initial(initial, update=False, verbose=False)

Collect railway station data for the given initial letter.

Parameters:

• initial (str) – initial letter of station data (including the station name, ELR, mileage, status, owner, operator, degrees of longitude and latitude, and grid reference) for specifying URL
• update (bool) – whether to check on update and proceed to update the package data, defaults to False
• verbose (bool, int) – whether to print relevant information in console as the function runs, defaults to False

Returns:

railway station data for the given initial letter; and date of when the data was last updated

Return type:

dict

Example:

from pyrcs.other_assets import Stations

stn = Stations()

update = False

initial = 'a'
railway_station_data_a = stn.collect_railway_station_data_by_initial(initial, update)

print(railway_station_data_a)
# {'A': <codes>,
#  'Last updated date': <date>}

fetch_railway_station_data(update=False, pickle_it=False, data_dir=None, verbose=False)

Fetch railway station data from local backup.

Parameters:

• update (bool) – whether to check on update and proceed to update the package data, defaults to False
• pickle_it (bool) – whether to replace the current package data with newly collected data, defaults to False
• data_dir (str, None) – name of package data folder, defaults to None
• verbose (bool, int) – whether to print relevant information in console as the function runs, defaults to False

Returns:

railway station data (incl. the station name, ELR, mileage, status, owner, operator, degrees of longitude and latitude, and grid reference) and date of when the data was last updated

Return type:

dict

Example:

from pyrcs.other_assets import Stations

stn = Stations()

update = False
pickle_it = False
data_dir = None

railway_station_data = stn.fetch_railway_station_data(update, pickle_it, data_dir)

print(railway_station_data)
# {'Railway station data': <codes>,
#  'Latest update date': <date>}