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In most countries, station codes are purely alphabetic, usually compromising a few capital letters for ease of identification, in some countries one capital and one or some lowercase letters.

==Americas==

===United States===

* [[{{main|List of Amtrak station codes]], United States and Canada}}

Amtrak encodes a few stations in Canada which it serves.

==Asia==

===Hongkong===

* [[{{main|List of MTR station codes]], [[Hong Kong]], China}}

===India===

{{see also|List of railway stations in India}}

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* Y: [[Yeliyur railway station]]

* Unallocated one-letter station codes of the Indian Railways include A, B, C, D, E, F, I, H, K, L, N, P, Q, T, U, W, X and Z.

===South Korea===

In [[South Korea]], station codes are purely numeric, to reduce the problem of [[language]] and [[writing system]] barriers. For example, [[Seoul Metropolitan Subway]]'s [[Singeumho station]] has the code of 538.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2022 |title=Metro Lines in Seoul |url=https://www.koreaorlmeeting.org/workshop/2020spring/file/Metro%20Lines%20in%20Seoul.pdf |website=KORL}}</ref>

==Europe==

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{{see also|UK railway stations}}<ref name=":1">[http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/ List of National Rail Station codes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125233554/http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/ |date=November 25, 2012 }}</ref> Three-letter alpha codes (formerly called CRS codes - ''Computer Reservation System'') are issued by [[National Rail]] which is responsible for railways in [[Great Britain]]. Station codes are not used by Northern Ireland Railways for stations in [[Northern Ireland]].<!-- A quick look at refdata.dat in Avantix Traveller however yields codes like BFC for "BELFAST CENTRAL". Similarly UK station codes were assigned for other international destinations, such as BSA for Berlin Zoo, NAU for Nauen, ZRH for Zürich HB, and VIE for Vienna West Station. -->

In England, Scotland and Wales of the UK, railway stations are assigned three-letter codes and are issued by National Rail and are called the Computer Reservation System (CRS), this is not the case in Northern Ireland.<ref name=":1" /> In [[Sweden]] and [[Denmark]], railway stations are assigned a capital letter followed by a sequence of lowercase letters that represent the station's name. For example, [[Stockholm commuter rail]]'s [[Stockholm City Station]] has the station code Sci. [[Deutsche Bahn]] in Germany uses an alphabetic station code system called the ''DS 100 code'', for example, [[Luckenwalde station]] in [[Brandenburg]] has the station code BLD.<ref>{{Cite web |author-link=Deutsche Bahn |date=August 2015 |title=Übersicht der Betriebsstellen und deren Abkürzungen aus der Richtlinie 100 |url=https://fahrweg.dbnetze.com/resource/blob/1359908/f9d782b88f2c1224ac1192e2d4b5f6ff/betriebsstellen-data.pdf |website=Deutsche Bahn AG |language=German}}</ref> In [[South Korea]], station codes are purely numeric, to reduce the problem of [[language]] and [[writing system]] barriers. For example, [[Seoul Metropolitan Subway]]'s [[Singeumho station]] has the code of 538.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2022 |title=Metro Lines in Seoul |url=https://www.koreaorlmeeting.org/workshop/2020spring/file/Metro%20Lines%20in%20Seoul.pdf |website=KORL}}</ref>

== Lists ==

Standards for station codes in different countries include:

* [[List of Amtrak station codes]], United States and Canada

* [[List of railway stations in Denmark]]

* [[List of Deutsche Bahn station abbreviations]], Germany

* [[List of MTR station codes]], [[Hong Kong]], China

==See also==