Wikidata:Property proposal/Benerail station identifier

Benerail station identifier

Done: Benerail station ID (P8448) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for train stations used by Benerail/SNCB/Thalys
Data type	External identifier
Domain	railway station (Q55488)
Allowed values	[A-Z]{5}, first two letters are an ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 country code
Example 1	Gare de Paris-Nord (Q745942) → "FRPNO"
Example 2	Amsterdam Central station (Q50719) → "NLASC"
Example 3	Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) → "BEBMI"
See also	IBNR ID (P954) UIC station code (P722) Gares & Connexions ID (P3104) SNCF Station ID (P8181)
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Railways
Proposed by	Volker.krause (talk) 16:41, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Subproperty of	station code (P296)

Motivation

This is extremely similar to SNCF Station ID (P8181), same format, same use-case, etc. A full list is also included in https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations/blob/master/stations.csv (benerail column), and those ids can for example be found in Thalys ticket barcodes.

Annoyingly it has some minor difference in actual values to SNCF Station ID (P8181), e.g. "NLAMS" vs. "NLASC" for Amsterdam Central. That's the case for IBNR ID (P954) and UIC station code (P722) too though, so I think the only option would be to have properties for both identifiers. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mahir256 (talk • contribs).