CORPUS
Also: location reference data, reference data
Network Rail’s list of places that ties all their codes together.
With CRS codes, TIPLOCs and STANOX numbers all naming the same places, something has to say which is which. CORPUS is that list: one row per place, with each of its codes and its name.
The names are written in capitals and sometimes back to front, like “PADDINGTON LONDON”, so apps tidy them up before showing them.
In Trainiac
How Trainiac turns a TRUST report’s number into a station you recognise.