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I have a set of locations for weather stations (download easily from here: https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/cgi-bin/midas_stations/search_by_county.cgi.py?county=SHROPSHIRE&minyear=&maxyear=).
I want to plot them in QGIS, but when I import as CSV file, it places them in the completely wrong places. They are all in Shropshire, yet they are very far from Shropshire.
Project projection: EPSG:27700
The requirements of the Openlayerrs plugin have not changed with QGIS 2.0.
The osm tiles are in EPSG:3857, and to draw them nicely, it is required that the project has that CRS too.
If you want a OSM background in CRS27700, you can select a zoom level that fits the area of your interest, make a screen copy with File -> Save as Image, remove the OSM layer, change CRS to EPSG:27700, then add the picture you just saved, and make sure that layer has EPSG:3857.
You are almost right:
The false Northing is -100000, so the "real" Y coordinate is 456089 meters.
The point is 50 km East and 456 km North of the natural origin, that is 2° West and 49° North.
Here you see a grid of EPSG:27700 together with the origin and your railway station:
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The coordinates from the archive of weather stations are in WGS 84 project system. Try choosing this for your project (EPSG:4326).
The CEDA web site tells you this if you look further, for example ACTON BURNELL has ~ https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/cgi-bin/midas_stations/station_details.cgi.py?id=9923&db=midas_stations