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==Europe==

===Denmark and Sweden===

*{{see [[also|List of railway stations in Denmark]]}}

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.

===Germany===

*{{see [[also|List of Deutsche Bahn station abbreviations]], Germany}}

[[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>

===UK===

{{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>

== Lists ==

Standards for station codes in different countries include:

* [[List of railway stations in Denmark]]

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

==See also==