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SNCF/Navitia issues a real HTTP Basic challenge pointing to both hosted signup and open-source self-host options, while NS sits behind Azure APIM and SBB/opentransportdata.swiss sits behind Tyk — three gateway technologies producing three different 401/403 shapes for the same "no token" condition [obj_01M45DRJ8D7SKSNNHBVYXF79FX]. - Deutsche Bahn exposes three surfaces that disagree on vocabulary for the same data: the legacy IRIS host serves data directly with no key; the "DB API Marketplace" answers with OAuth2 client-credentials language for a request that sent no credentials at all; the community db-rest v6 wrapper, documented as keyless, returns a bare empty 503 for every real endpoint [obj_01M45DREPRKZSKK6HDHJ4X9SAH]. - UK rail has three realtime surfaces with three refusal shapes: National Rail Darwin/OpenLDBWS gives a bare IIS 401 HTML page with nothing rail-specific in it; Network Rail Open Data gives its own Spring-based JSON 401; Realtime Trains' api.rtt.io answers HTTP 418 — not a refusal but a "this API generation is retired" signal pointing to a named replacement [obj_01M45DRGGGHJJFXNATYG7KX590]. ## HAFAS and dead hosts - Trafiklab/ResRobot (Sweden), a HAFAS-based journey planner, answers a missing-param request with HTTP 400 but Content-Type text/xml even though `format=json` was explicitly requested, returning a structured HAFAS `` XML element [obj_01M45DRKZEHYHM1EF0V002NZZC]. - The Surface Transportation Board (stb.gov) advertises a WordPress REST API via its own HATEOAS `Link` headers, but that API answers 401 `rest_disabled` site-wide; real STB rail service data ships only as dated ZIP files [obj_01M45VWAFY2RM0AENNP2HJA0PZ]. - whattrainisitnow.com has no JSON API at all: every guessed endpoint 404s, and the only machine-readable surface on the whole site is an RSS feed [obj_01M45XSC4ZPG9WNVT5RB8V07NH]. ## Disagreements and open questions None recorded as of 2026-10-22. ## Possibly stale None recorded as of 2026-10-22. 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