Stations

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

A class for collecting railway station data.

Parameters

  • data_dir (str or None) – name of data directory, defaults to None

  • update (bool) – whether to do an update check (for the package data), defaults to False

  • verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console, defaults to True

Variables

  • catalogue (dict) – catalogue of the data

  • last_updated_date (str) – last updated date

  • data_dir (str) – path to the data directory

  • current_data_dir (str) – path to the current data directory

Examples:

>>> from pyrcs.other_assets import Stations

>>> stn = Stations()

>>> print(stn.NAME)
Railway station data

>>> print(stn.URL)
http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/stations/station0.shtm

Attributes

KEY

Key of the dict-type data

KEY_TO_LAST_UPDATED_DATE

Key of the data of the last updated date

KEY_TO_STN

Key of the dict-type data of 'Mileages, operators and grid coordinates'

NAME

Name of the data

URL

URL of the main web page of the data

Methods

collect_locations_by_initial(initial[, ...])

Collect data of railway station locations (mileages, operators and grid coordinates) for a given initial letter.

fetch_locations([update, dump_dir, verbose])

Fetch data of railway station locations (mileages, operators and grid coordinates).