______________________________________ Technical Specification for London Underground Railway Timetable Data - Common User Format File ______________________________________ LU/ED Version 4.0 Issue Dated 19 August 2015 Implementation Date 6 September 2015 Alterations up to and including 21 July 2015 Common User Format File 4.0 Table of Contents 1. DETAILED REVISION HISTORY .............................................................................................................5 1.1 Revisions starting from version 3.0 ................................................................................................5 1.2 Revisions from version 3.1 .............................................................................................................5 1.3 Revisions from version 3.2 .............................................................................................................6 1.4 Revisions from version 3.3 .............................................................................................................6 2. GENERAL ................................................................................................................................................8 2.1 File Naming Conventions................................................................................................................8 2.2 File Content and Format .................................................................................................................9 2.2.1 ID File .........................................................................................................................................9 2.2.2 The Header (HDR) File ........................................................................................................... 11 2.2.3 The CUF Event (EVT) File ...................................................................................................... 13 2.2.4 The Checksum (CHK) File ...................................................................................................... 16 2.3 Notes – Standard CUF File.......................................................................................................... 16 2.4 Notes – Signal Control System Specific (SCCS) CUF File ......................................................... 17 2.5 Notes – All outputs ....................................................................................................................... 18 2.6 Clock Change Arrangements ...................................................................................................... 19 3. APPENDIX A ......................................................................................................................................... 20 3.1 Day of Use Codes ........................................................................................................................ 20 4. APPENDIX B ......................................................................................................................................... 21 4.1 Day Restriction Codes ................................................................................................................. 21 5. APPENDIX C ......................................................................................................................................... 22 5.1 Site Codes ................................................................................................................................... 22 6. APPENDIX D ......................................................................................................................................... 25 6.1 Facility Identifiers ......................................................................................................................... 25 7. APPENDIX E ......................................................................................................................................... 27 7.1 Local Routeing Options ............................................................................................................... 27 8. APPENDIX F ......................................................................................................................................... 29 8.1 Unique Location Codes ............................................................................................................... 29 9. APPENDIX G ......................................................................................................................................... 38 9.1 Checksum Calculation Coding .................................................................................................... 38 C-EDMS Ref. ED-6-2-279 Page 2 of 38 Common User Format File 4.0 Distribution Name Position/Organisation Doug Green Signals and C&I Asset Engineer, Tube Lines Mike James Line Upgrade Engineer, ED Hugh Bridge Line Upgrade Engineer, ED Phil Dubery Line Upgrade Engineer, ED Jim Mason C&I Asset Engineer, Metronet SSL Paul Hartwell C&I Asset Engineer, Metronet BCV Clive Richards Control System Manager, Tube Lines Ray Hughes (retired) Systems Team Manager, LU Charles Horsey Scheduling Services Manager, LU Nick Freezer Team Leader CART, LU Mike Davies Planning Analyst, LU Malcolm Turner C&I Asset Engineer, ED Ken Chan Application Delivery Team Lead, LU Fiona Irving Service Control Standards Manager (SSR), LU Steve Lammin Production Manager, Tube Lines Roger Creed Engineering Manager, Tube Lines Jon Nye Performance Manager, LU Ollie O’Callaghan Data Maintainer, LU Tayo Oseni Journey Planner Development Manager, LU Nick Rusz Service Performance Information Manager, LU Alan Smith Integration Task Manager, LU Tope Songonuga Production Manager, LU Data@journeyplan History Date Release Author Description 25/04/06 Issue 3 Ray Hughes the amount of data provided has been increased and re-organisation of the file structures has increased the number of files from two to four following a review of the original file formats. 10/08/06 Issue Not formally Some minor grammatical errors have been corrected. 3.1 issued Prefaces to versions prior to version 3.0 have been deleted. Trip Start Location and Trip End Location fields have been added. Unique Location Code fields have been added. The number of characters in the Field Codes for the Arrival and Departure Time fields in the CUF file has been increased to six. The notes associated with the CUF file have been enhanced. The File Extension Codes shown in Appendix A have been amended. Appendix F has been added. Issue Ray Hughes Pointers to code definitions added to field explanations sections 2.2 and 2.3. 3.2 Correction of field separator between last two fields of sample record format in paragraph 2.2.2 Insertion of field separator between eleventh and twelfth fields of sample record format in paragraph 2.2.3 Introduction of paragraph 2.2.4 detailing content of the Checksum (.CHK) file. Clarification / correction made to Appendix B regarding presence of Day Restriction Codes on trips Removal of three character codes from site details in Appendix D and E Correction of Unique Location Codes for Baker Street platforms 7 and 9 Appendix E has been revised to clarify the instances where local routes are used which has resulted in a number of irrelevant entries being removed Appendix F has been enhanced to clarify when some location codes will/won’t appear in the output files, to add a new location code for Barking No. 30 Road, to correct the wording of some entries at White City, to correct the Unique Location Codes for Baker Street platforms 7 and 9, to correct the Unique Location Codes for both Aldgate North Junction locations and to remove a duplicate entry for Golders Green No. 26 Road. Issue Ray Hughes/ Correction made to wording in section 2.2.2 3.3 Nick Freezer Appendix C has been changed to replace White City (C&H) with Wood Lane, and to delete records for closed East London Line sites. Appendix E has been modified to include Local Routes on departures from Woodford to South Woodford and to include the road numbers in the descriptions of Newbury Park and Debden Loops. Appendix F has been changed to correct the code for Newbury Park 31 Road, to add location codes for Stanmore platform 3, Stratford Market Junction Holding Roads 1 and 2 and Wood Lane Station platforms 1 and 2, to delete records for closed East London Line sites and to highlight the forthcoming removal of St Mary’s Junction records from output. A new Appendix G has been added detailing the coding used to calculate Checksum values 21/1/15 Issue Nick Freezer Introduction of Signal Control Centre Specific format CUF files 4.0 Revisions made for regular overnight operation C-EDMS Ref. ED-6-2-279 Page 3 of 38 Common User Format File 4.0 Date Release Author Description Additional fields provided in ID file to explicitly indicate that overnight running is applicable for the file set. Minor corrections have been made to the existing text where necessary. File naming convention changed to allow more information to be shown in file name. Section 2.2 and Appendix C revised to reflect continuation of Sutor code support. Section 2.3 split into sections 2.3 to 2.5 to reflect differences between standard and signal control format CUF files. Section 2.6 introduced to describe actions for overnight operation on clock change weekends Appendix A revised to include additional codes for overnight operation on clock change weekends. Revision associated with following changes: • Commissioning of West Ham Siding in lieu of Plaistow WB Line Reversing Berth