"National Rail" is what ATOC came up with to describe things that are represented by the double-arrow symbol, and which would formerly have been referred to as "British Rail" or informally as the rail network. (The staff refer to it as "the railway", but that's another subject)
"National Rail" isn't a great name, but it's the correct one. The symbol is owned by ATOC. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:00 PM, SomeoneElse <li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk>wrote: > Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Or indeed we could just go with "network=National Rail" as a good enough >> solution. >> > > My issue with "National Rail" was that, to me, (as I explained to the > Peruvian chap who's edited Mansfield Woodhouse station): > > "National Rail" means these people: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ , also > http://www.atoc.org/ > > It's just an industry association of the various Train Operating > Companies. They don't own, operate or have any direct involvement with the > British rail _network_. > > > The only place I've heard "national rail"* used is in London to refer to > non-underground stations (and even there, you still here "British Rail > station"). Everyone else says "Railway". > > > I don't think that "network=network_rail" works either, as there will > inevitably by issues in London where NR works on infrastructure for TfL > Overground services. > > So "network=railway" for me, since that's probably the best description of > what it actually is. > > Cheers, > Andy > > * in lower case, where "national" simply means "non-underground", and is a > description rather than a name. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gb<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> >
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