Rail Station Information

Rail line and station information, including locations, fares, times, and parking.

XML - Station to Station Information

Description

Returns a distance, fare information, and estimated travel time between any two stations, including those on different lines. Omit both parameters to retrieve data for all stations.

Response Elements

Element Description
StationToStationInfos Array containing station to station information (StationToStationInfo).
StationToStationInfo Elements
CompositeMiles Average of distance traveled between two stations and straight-line distance (as used for WMATA fare calculations). For more details, please refer to WMATA's Tariff on Fares.
DestinationStation Destination station code. Use this value in other rail-related APIs to retrieve data about a station.
RailFare Structure containing fare information.
RailTime Estimated travel time (schedule time) in minutes between the source and destination station. This is not correlated to minutes (Min) in Real-Time Rail Predictions.
SourceStation Origin station code. Use this value in other rail-related APIs to retrieve data about a station.
RailFare Elements
OffPeakTime Fare during off-peak times (times other than the ones described below).
PeakTime Fare during peak times (weekdays from opening to 9:30 AM and 3-7 PM, and weekends from midnight to closing).
SeniorDisabled Reduced fare for senior citizens or people with disabilities.

Try it

Request URL

Request parameters

(optional)
string

Station code for the origin station. Use the Station List method to return a list of all station codes.

(optional)
string

Station code for the destination station. Use the Station List method to return a list of all station codes.

Request headers

string
Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Response 200

Default response code.

<StationToStationInfoResp xmlns="http://www.wmata.com" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <StationToStationInfos>
        <StationToStationInfo>
            <CompositeMiles>25.41</CompositeMiles>
            <DestinationStation>J03</DestinationStation>
            <RailFare>
                <OffPeakTime>3.60</OffPeakTime>
                <PeakTime>5.90</PeakTime>
                <SeniorDisabled>2.95</SeniorDisabled>
            </RailFare>
            <RailTime>66</RailTime>
            <SourceStation>E10</SourceStation>
        </StationToStationInfo>
    </StationToStationInfos>
</StationToStationInfoResp>

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo?FromStationCode=E10&ToStationCode=J03"
-H "api_key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}" 

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("api_key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["FromStationCode"] = "E10";
            queryString["ToStationCode"] = "J03";
            var uri = "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo");

            builder.setParameter("FromStationCode", "E10");
            builder.setParameter("ToStationCode", "J03");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("api_key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            "api_key": "{subscription key}",
            // Request parameters
            "FromStationCode": "E10",
            "ToStationCode": "J03",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo?" + $.param(params),
            type: "GET",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"FromStationCode=E10",
                         @"ToStationCode=J03",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"api_key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'api_key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'FromStationCode' => 'E10',
    'ToStationCode' => 'J03',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'api_key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'FromStationCode': 'E10',
    'ToStationCode': 'J03',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'api_key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'FromStationCode': 'E10',
    'ToStationCode': 'J03',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/SrcStationToDstStationInfo')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'FromStationCode' => 'E10',
    'ToStationCode' => 'J03'
})

if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
else
    uri.query = query
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['api_key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body