Open rail data

[Sussex nick]

Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I could not find a specific thread on this subject
I’ve been running my own web site for a while now, the purpose of which is to collect performance data across southern, Thameslink & Gatwick Express.

I have found a very small number of anomiles which out of curiosity would like to know what they mean, these anomalies are where they appear on my FTP feed I take from Railtrack, but I can’t see that these trains actually ran.

One example is
<Journey rid="201902047908115" uid="O08115" trainId="1L74" ssd="2019-02-04" toc="SN" status="1" trainCat="XX">

The oddity is the train ID starts with an ‘O’ and there is as status ‘1’ which I doesn’t apply usually

This appears to be a one off train and I was wondering if the O signifies operator only, I can only see about 1 a week so I’m not to bothered I’m just wondering if anyone else knows what this means

TIA

 

[Tom]

This is Darwin, so you are taking the feed from National Rail Enquiries/RDG. The O signifies the train as having been arranged under VSTP arrangements (Darwin's version of VSTP arrangements, at least). Status reflects the status as per the CIF file, 1 is an STP passenger/parcels service.

Network Rail has their own version of VSTP arrangements for TRUST/TOPS, and the two don't talk to each other. Schedules have to be input into both systems.