ATOC make full raw fares datafeed available

[radamfi]

Has anyone tried processing the files and creating a database from them?

 

[soil]

It would be simple enough, but I think to make it useful you'd need routeing data also.

Obviously the incredible complexity between differing restrictions, stopping patterns, and so on, is what makes it hard to generalise. E.g., a direct train from A- B at 9:30am requires an Anytime Day Single, but you can travel on that route from C-D at that time using an Off-Peak Day Single, which is cheaper than the SDS A-B, even though the comparable SDS tickets are cheaper....

 

[radamfi]

Where does brfares.com get details of restrictions? The ATOC raw data has a restrictions file (RJFAF915.RST) but that only has a brief description of each restriction.

 

[Mojo]

ls brfares based on this newly released Atoc data? lt was around long before it was released by Atoc.

 

[radamfi]

ls brfares based on this newly released Atoc data? lt was around long before it was released by Atoc.

brfares.com has existed since some time last year, so must have got the restriction data from an alternative source. I was hoping that the same text would be contained in the ATOC files, but it appears not.

 

[Paul Kelly]

Something else that the official fares data feed doesn't have is information on whether break of journey is prohibited on the outward portion of Off-Peak returns - that is only in the human readable restriction texts.

Anyway, looks like there's been some kind of official announcement about this today: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/data-release-provides-platform-for-rail-fare-web-apps