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Logo. Feature: Railway stations
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Description
A place where trains stop.
Tags

Railway stations are often complex and include both transport connections and varying amenities. A complex station can be mapped to varying degrees of detail using the following tags and descriptions.

Overview

A railway station may be mapped using the structure and tags shown in the diagrams below:[1]

Simple tagging of a railway station
More complete tagging of a railway station

See Talk. A public_transport=station tag can be on a node as seen here or on a polygon area identical or similar to one tagged landuse=railway + railway=station, also seen here. How these and area:railway=station may interact (and why the question mark is there) remain under discussion, as all of these tagging styles exist in OSM. Semantics visually described here are not an exact be-all and end-all, they are intended to be pedagogical / teaching aids. Yet more complex stations and their features (for example Tag:railway=platform_edge), such as termini and other main stations possibly with underground levels are mapped to further detail, not diagrammed here; see below for suitable tag descriptions.

Location

Where to put the station's node
  • A node node or alternatively an area area should be tagged as railway=station or railway=halt to mark the actual station/halt, the latter also conveys the infrastructural boundaries of the station.
  • A node node on a track way way should be tagged as railway=stop to mark the estimate point at which the actual train stops.
  • Tracks within a station should be ways way that are tagged as railway=rail.
  • To aid in route planning, platforms should be drawn and tagged as railway=platform and ref=*
  • Optionally, station concourses and galleyways should be tagged as highway=footway, with optional name=station concourse / galleyway name when a specific name is known, and should link platforms.
  • If a station has multiple entrances, consider railway=train_station_entrance.

Building

For larger stations it is often convenient to mark the entire station building. To complete this, create a closed way and use the tag, building=train_station. Currently there are a number of proposals relating to subterranean stations (subway, underground).

It is especially convenient in route planning to include the building entrances. This is accomplished by tagging the appropriate nodes in a building's boundary as building=entrance or railway=subway_entrance or railway=train_station_entrance. These entrances will often be seen as the intersecting node of a buildings boundary way and a station concourse (footway) way.

If it's open to the public, add the building as a member to a public_transport=stop_area relation.[1]

Element Key Value Description Additional tags Comment Image
Station buildings

area		 building train_station Outline of the station building(s) Optional tags:
name=* may be identical to railway=station, but in such cases probably best omitted,
operator=First Anglia;Network Rail;...
wheelchair=yes;limited;no
layer=*
addr:street=*
addr:housenumber=*
addr:postcode=*
public_transport=station

Number of floors building:levels=* (do not include mezzanine floors or the platforms in this total).

Care may be needed when the station consists of a number of buildings.
Entrance

node		 entrance yes / main / exit / service / emergency Entrance to a building On main entrances add railway=train_station_entrance or railway=subway_entrance and also ref=* and/or name=* if these exist.

The tag exit_to=* can be used to indicate that the entrance provides access to a particular locality of amenity (e.g., bus station, car parking, town centre).

A system of 2 relations is use to indicate a different name for an entrance and an exit at the same place, as indicated on Guidelines for pedestrian navigation

Other optional tags:

wheelchair=yes;limited;no
level=*
layer=*
access=yes;customers;private
Canopy or over-roof building:part roof Rain protection on platforms. See Key:building:part Image © Paul Bryan (excerpted)

Indoor mapping

Multilevel and underground stations can be described precisely with the Simple Indoor Tagging model.

For ways within the paid area after the fare gates, add toll=yes into them such that routers are aware that the user needs to pay a toll (train ticket) to use that way. Do not tag them with access=destination, access=customers, or similar as it will prevent routing engines (such as OpenTripPlanner) from using these ways to access a train service, when the train station is not the final destination.

Railway infrastructure

Infrastructures in multilevel stations should be placed on the Z axis using level=* and layer=*.

Element Key Description Additional tags Comment Image
Rails

way

railway=rail Metal rails allowing the circulation of any form of transport, including, main lines, subways, old lines and tramways Use railway:preferred_direction=* to specify the usual direction of trains on the segment.

Optional tags:

electrified=contact_line
gauge=* for rail spacing
frequency=*voltage=*
 Always link the rails to a line using a relation, do not use name=* for this.

See Railways for more details

railway track
Stop position

node

railway=stop Used to indicate approximate stopping point of the train in the station (in the middle of the train). local_ref=* reference of a track.

Example: local_ref=A for track A.

Allows to link with tag ref=* on the platform.

Optional tags:

name=*public_transport=stop_position
 Ensure that name=* is the same than the one used for railway=station train arriving at a station
Platform

Area

railway=platform A space next to the rails where passengers wait for trains
public_transport=platform
wheelchair=yes;limited;no
covered=yes;no

Optional tags:

operator=SNCF;RENFE;...
 Create an area that covers the whole platform, or different areas if you want to distinguish platforms with different name=* and/or ref=*. train station platform
Rail crossing

node

railway=crossing A node where pedestrians can cross the tracks Optional tag:
access=no if not accessible to the public
Buffer stop railway=buffer_stop Stops the train at the end of a track

Amenities

Station buildings often contain many amenities. Where appropriate, these amenities can be individually marked by a node and tagged.

Some amenities often found in station buildings and around their locality can be found below:

All public amenities at a station should be added as members to a public_transport=stop_area relation.[1]

Freight railway stations and shunting yards

railway=yard—a railway station for freight. This includes yards that don't involve the loading or unloading of freight.

The mapping is documented at yard and freight station tagging and follows the OpenRailwayMap tagging system.

Stations and sites which are not currently in operation

If the station is not currently in service, it should generally not be tagged railway=station.[2]

Note that railway stations without any traces whatsoever (for example open pit mine is now where railway station used to be) should not be mapped in OSM, with exceptions for ones likely to be remapped as existing. Open Historical Map is a better fit.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/railway-station-as-an-area/104839
  2. ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/012918.html
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