The Management Board of RFC Rhine-Danube is pleased to announce the next joint Advisory Group meeting organized together with RFC Mediterranean. This first RAG TAG event will take place on 13 October 2026 at the BILK Terminal in Budapest, Hungary, which is one of Central and Eastern Europe’s most prominent intermodal logistics hubs, providing a highly relevant operational backdrop for this special occasion.

This meeting will gather representatives from Railway Undertakings, terminals, and corridor managers across both regions. On the occassion of this first joint RAG-TAG event we try to discover better and more efficient utilization of capacity offers and needs, the benefits and synergies of cross corridor cooperation, with regard to interoperability and better utilization of terminals/ports.

We look forward to welcoming our business partners at this joint  event!

Further details regarding the detailed agenda and registration will be announced in due course.

We are pleased to announce that RFC Rhine-Danube will attend the Connecting Europe Days again this year.

The Connecting Europe Days 2026 will take place from 28 September to 1 October at the Square Brussels Convention Centre in Brussels.  Programme – Mobility and Transport – European Commission

If you would like to exchange views with us on key topics regarding the facilitation and development of rail freight traffic, we warmly invite you to visit us at the joint stand with the other RFCs.

Detailed information about the programme, the side-events and the registration can be found here: EU Login

We are looking forward to meeting you in Brussels!

The Management Board of RFC Rhine-Danube successfully hosted its latest Railway Undertaking Advisory Group (RAG) meeting on 28 May 2026. The event took place at the German Ministry of Transport in Bonn, Germany.

The meeting brought together key sector stakeholders to discuss strategic priorities and performance along the corridor. Key professional topics included tracking operational KPIs such as border dwell times and the realization of 740m train length capabilities, port strategies, and addressing the infrastructure financing gap alongside the upcoming EU Capacity Regulation.

We had the honor of having the Advisor of the Rhine Danube European Transport Corridor (ETC) Coordinator at the event, who actively contributed to the discussions, reinforcing the strong governance cooperation between the RFC and the ETC Coordinator. Looking ahead, participants also reviewed important upcoming 2026 milestones, including the Connecting Europe Days in Brussels and the new challenges deriving from the new EU legislative environmnet.

Photo highlights from the event in Bonn can be found attached to this article.

On 18–19 February 2026, the PCS Training was successfully held in Sopron, with 40 participants from several  countries.

The meeting gathered experts and stakeholders from RFCs Rhine-Danube, Mediterranean, Baltic-Adriatic and Alpine-Western Balkan.

The annual training focused on corridor-specific functions in PCS and provided practical guidance for requesting capacity on the Rail Freight Corridors for Timetable 2027 (TT2027). Participants were also introduced to new PCS features and received updates on TT2027 developments, complemented by live individual and corridor-specific exercises.

The event proved to be a great success, supporting international cooperation and effective preparation for the upcoming timetable period.

Should you have missed the opportunity to participate, information about the planned online trainings is available at the link below:

https://docs.rne.eu/pcs/pcs-capacity-broker-migration-and-training-info/#TrainingOnline

On 17 May 2025 in the early afternoon hours a freight train derailed in a curve between Hegyeshalom and Rajka/Rusovce border, on the network of GYSEV. The derailed train contained a special equipment with heavy items; it was carried a transformator carriage which derailed with four axles and damaged the infrastructure more than 130 meters long.

Update of 21-05-2025:

After the accident the line section is in operation on the tracks with 10km/h speed restrictions on a 200 m long section.

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Since the accident occured in a single track line section, traffic is not possible till the mitigation measures and reconstruction works will be completed. This will take several days due to the special circumstances (the weight of derailed wagon is approximately 560 tons).

The re-opening of the line section is expected on 21 May. In the following days, shorter track closures might still be needed, they will be carried out during the night hours until the full restoration.

The infrastructure manager has identified the alternative routes the west towards Nickelsdorf and the east towards Komárom/Komárno as possible diversions for freight trains.

Passenger trains are replaced by replacement buses between Hegyeshalom and Rajka.

GYSEV informed immediately the MÁV traffic control center and the RUs via various channels (incl. incident management tool) about the incident. MÁV has also informed the public and the affected infrastructure managers about the event on its website and through the press.

ÖBB infra informed the participants in the 1^st telco about the rerouting lines in Austria and offered an additional line capacity via Břeclav – Vienna and Bratislava-Petržalka – Vienna towards Hungary.

With effect from today, 1 April 2025, major parts of RFC Orient/East-Med have been fully integrated into RFC Rhine-Danube as a consequence of the revision of the TEN-T Regulation. The revised Regulation integrates the eleven Rail Freight Corridors and the formerly known nine TEN-T corridors into nine European Transport Corridors. The former Orient/East-Med Corridor (RFC OEM) has ceased operations and most of its lines are now forming part of RFC Rhine-Danube.

The participating Infrastructure Managers and Allocation Bodies decided at an early stage for this transition in order to maximise the potential synergies of the two RFCs, which already have had joint activities, working groups, and meetings for three years now. This former close and fruitful cooperation has enabled a smooth and early transition ahead of the legal deadline.

What does this geographical alignment mean for the business of our customers?

The gradual transition of the C-OSS service for managing PaP and Reserve Capacity requests had already started in autumn last year.

–  As a first step, the C-OSS of RFC RD offered Reserve Capacity for timetable 2025 also on most of the lines of RFC OEM (except lines in Greece and Bulgaria, which have not been integrated into RFC RD).

–  As a second step, the C-OSS of RFC RD is offering PaPs on the lines of RFC OEM for timetable 2026 (except lines in Greece and Bulgaria).

The Management Board of the geographically aligned RFC RD is looking forward to cooperating with its customers and stakeholders further on. In order to use synergies with other RFCs, similarly as done between RFC RD and RFC OEM before, the Management Board of RFC RD will continue convening joint meetings with the Railway Untertakings and Terminal Advisory Groups (RAG/TAG) of other RFCs. This year, the Management Board is already organizing a meeting on 14 May in Nagycenk/Sopron jointly with RFC Amber and RFC Baltic-Adriatic, and will also organize a meeting on 22 October in Vienna jointly with RFC North Sea-Baltic.

A map of the new RFC RD alignment you can find here: https://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/who-we-are/

The Management Board of RFC Rhine-Danube is pleased to invite you to the first joint meeting of the Advisory Groups of Terminal Owners and Managers (TAG) and the Railway Undertaking Advisory Groups (RAG), organized in cooperation with the Baltic – Adriatic and Amber corridors.

Participants will depart from Sopron, with the main event taking place in Nagycenk from 9:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on 14 May 2025, followed by a special side event.

A key focus of the discussion will be gathering input from RUs and terminal representatives on how to improve consultation processes on key topics such as infrastructure development and investment needs, performance of the corridors, and measures to improve operational efficiency along the rail freight corridors of the new European Transport Corridors.

We would like to inform our customers about the publication of the updated overview of Temporary Capacity Restrictions (TCRs) on RFC Rhine-Danube. This update comprises updates to TCRs planned for timetable years 2025, 2026 and 2027.

It can be accessed via our website (https://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/temporary-capacity-restrictions-tcrs/ ), as well as via the CIP (https://info-cip.rne.eu )

The RFC Rhine-Danube Team together with RFC Orient/East-Med is pleased to inform you about the publication of the Pre-Arranged Paths (PaPs) on RFC Rhine-Danube for Timetable 2026.

The PaP Catalogue contains PaPs from RFC 9 (Rhine-Danube) and RFC 7 (Orient/East-Med) because RFC 7 will be discontinued on 1 April. The new designed PaP Catalogue with a map, additional information on train parameters and distances and a common timetable will help you to find PaPs more easily.

The Pap Offer TT2026 is accessible via PCS  and ready for you to order from January 28th until April 14th, 2025.

The Pap Catalogue and all relevant information on the procedures for requesting and allocation capacity on the corridor (see especially the Corridor Information Document) is available on the common  Customer Information Platform (CIP) of the RFCs and on our Website

Please note that the offer can be subject to minor changes throughout the planned correction phase until end of January 2025. Updates will be communicated accordingly.

If you have any question, do not hesitate, and contact your C-OSS manager Bernd Wetzel from RFC Rhine-Danube () or József Ádám Balogh from RFC Orient/East-Med (). He will be available until end of March 2025.

We look forward to welcoming you on the RFC Rhine-Danube network !

We would like to inform our customers and potential customers that new Corridor Information Document (CID) for Timetable 2026 (Sections 1-4) has been published.

The CID provides key details about the RFC Rhine-Danube network, including infrastructure characteristics, access conditions, and rules for capacity allocation, traffic, and crisis management. Harmonized across all RFCs, it ensures consistency and ease of use for international rail freight operations. The CID for RFC Rhine-Danube specifically aligns with these standards to support users effectively.

The document is now available on our website: https://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/cid-books/

It can also be accessed via the CIP tool: https://info-cip.rne.eu/ and in the NCI tool: https://rne.eu/it/rne-applications/nci/

We are looking forward to welcoming you on the RFC Rhine-Danube network.