What location data should I provide for rail journeys?

The location object in Thrust Calculator accepts many different means of identifying a place. Try to add as much detail about the place as you can; Thrust Calculator will intelligently create the best model to resolve the location for the rail segment.

Below are examples of all the location fields we accept:

1. City Code
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Three-letter city code (e.g., LON for London).

2. Country Code
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, e.g., GB for Great Britain).

3. City Name
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Name of the city, district, suburb, town, or village.

4. Region
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: State, county, province, or region.

5. UIC Code
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Train station identifier.

6. SNCF Code
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Train station identifier for SNCF.

7. Coordinates
   1. Type: Object
   2. Description: Latitude and longitude coordinates of the location.

8. Trainline Normalized Code
   1. Type: String
   2. Description: Identifier from Trainline’s dataset for railway stations (e.g., urn:trainline:public:nloc).