Rail transport

This theme includes sites associated with movement of passengers and goods by rail.

OS MasterMap Sites Layer (blue polygon) Rail transport theme – railway station

Functional site	Description
Railway station	A feature by a light railway network or railway network where a light rail vehicle or train may stop to pick up goods or passengers.
Vehicular rail terminal	A facility where freight vehicles may be transferred to or from the rail network.
Tram station	A stop/station for trams. Tram systems are defined as light rail systems with some shared running over roads.

All rail transport sites will be captured as indicated below unless they fall out of scope; for example, a private property labelled as ‘Railway Station Bungalow’.

The following features are included in the captured extent:

• Station buildings

• Station shelters

• Platform areas

• Access roads and paths

• Station footbridges and associated structures

• Station car parks

• Areas of man-made and natural surface surrounded by included areas

• Areas of man-made and natural surface abutting included areas along a non-obstructing edge The following features are not included in the captured extent:

• Railway buildings (for example, signal boxes and maintenance huts)

• Railway track areas (made-way)

• Man-made and natural areas alongside tracks

• Public roads and footpaths

It is important to note that functional sites in the rail transport theme are often not contiguous and may be constrained of the structure of polygons in the Topography Layer.