Description

A permanent way having one or more rails which provides a track for trains or trams

Topo50 description

All mainline railway lines are held in the Topo50 data and shown on the Topo50 printed maps. Where a railway line is located close to a road, the line held in the data and shown on the printed map may be offset from the road sufficient that the two symbols are recognisable at 1:50,000. Multiple sidings may be held in the data and shown on the printed maps as a single feature

Topo250 description

Most railway lines are held in the Topo250 data and shown on the Topo250 printed maps; they are generalised from those shown on the Topo50 series

Map image

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Representation specification

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Example

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Aerial view

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See also: rail_station_pnt bridge_cl tunnel_cl

Class attributes

Attribute	Value
Object class	railway_cl
Entity class	RAILWAY
Additional entity class	Not applicable
Object inheritance	simple_line
Entity source	Proposed change to US Entity
Map series	Topo50 Topo250 Topo500
LSLIFF object class	107

Object attributes

Attribute	LSLIFF code Shapefile field Data type	Attribute description	Attribute values*
name	1001 name string	The name of the railway line, where known. Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use the name_ascii attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use mostly US-ASCII characters because it represents each character in the range U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.	"WAIRARAPA RAILWAY" {empty}
name_macronated	1140 macronated boolean	Indicates whether the entry in the name_ascii field contains a macronated vowel. Where the value is "Y" go to http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/find-m%C4%81ori-place-names-dual-names-and-alternative-names for a list of places or feature names within New Zealand that are gazetted and include macrons	Y N
railway_track_type	1072 track_type string		single multiple
railway_vehicle_accomodated	1073 veh_type string	Values rail cart a decommissioned railway line with adapted motorised golf carts, or rail bicycles designed for tourist use	tram rail cart cablecar {empty}
railway_use	1074 rway_use string		siding {empty}
railway_status	1075 status string		disused under construction {empty}
name_ascii	9000 name_ascii string	Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use this attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed.
UFID	1000 t50_fid integer	A unique identifier for use on Topo50 data in the LINZ Data Service. This is not a universal ID. The intention is to manage these ID’s as persistent, however this is not guaranteed and there will be instances where what appears to be a minor change to a feature may result in a new ID being assigned.	"3254886"

* See explanation of attribute values for more information about how attribute values are represented.

Change log

Feature version	Revised	Description
9	2014-06-12	Added "rail cart" value for railway_vehicle_accomodated
8	2012-08-28	Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
7	2012-08-28	Added scale-specific definitions
6	2012-08-16	Name attribute in UTF-8 format; added name_ascii attribute
5	2010-03-01	Added name_macronated attribute
4	2003-06-30	removed attribute
3	2001-11-23	Unspecified update
2	2000-03-31	new attribute
1	1999-03-01	initial status