We would like to inform our customers that due to the heavy rainfall that caused floods in the south of Germany, the railway bridge between Nürnberg and Würzburg near Kitzingen has not been useable since 04:00 on 2nd June 2024.
Reconstruction will not be possible until 24th June 2024. After that, traffic will start on a single track. The exact date of the reconstruction and the opening of the second track is not known yet.
Diversionary routes for freight trains are available to the north via Bamberg and to the south via Ansbach.
The parameters of the diversionary routes are as follows:
The Corridor Capacity Wishlist has been send out to all applicants and railway undertakings to collect international capacity wishes and needs for the annual timetable 2026.
The result of this survey will be one of the main elements that the Rail Freight Corridors will use to build the PaP Catalogues for timetable 2026.
We look forward to receiving your requests, which should be sent back by 16 August.
If you were not on the mailing list or are new to this business, information can be found and downloaded by the following link:
We would like to inform our customers and potential customers that the updated Corridor Information Document for Timetable 2025 (Sections 1-4) has been published.
The CID provides information about the conditions of using the RFC comprising infrastructure characteristics, list and description of terminals, capacity allocation rules, and traffic management rules.
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 concerns TCRs of GYSEV and MÁV.
If you would like to exchange on matters with us important for you and your organisation regarding facilitating rail freight traffic, please visit us between 3rd and 5th April at the joint booth of the RFC Network, which will be booth No. 67 in the Grand Hall.
Additionally, we would like to invite all of our interested partners to a special side-event on ‘Improving the performance of cross-border rail freight traffic’, which is co-organised by the RFC Network and some partner organisations in cooperation with the European Commission. It will be held from 9:00 to 10:30 on 4 April 2024 at Studios 314+316.
This side-event will focus on some of the current initiatives improving the performance of cross-border rail freight traffic:
Quality Circle Operations (QCO) (RFC Atlantic & RFC Rhine-Alpine)
Brenner Corridor and Femern Belt Platforms (RFC ScanMed)
Evolution of the dozen: improving train performance both at Schengen borders and non-Schengen borders (RFC Orient/East-Med & RFC Rhine-Danube)
Capacity Intelligence project (RFC North Sea-Med)
Real Time Data sharing between railway actors (TIS and R-CDM) (RailNetEurope)
Enhanced Data Interoperability for Combined Transport stakeholders (EDICT) project (UIRR)
Our PaP offer for timetable 2025 is now published and accessible via PCS and the website.
We are glad to inform all our customers and potential customers about the publication of the pre-arranged paths (PaPs) on RFC Rhine-Danube for timetable 2025. The offer is accessible via PCS (https://pcs-online.rne.eu/pcs/#/login) and the PaP Catalogue may be accessed via our website (http://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/pre-arranged-paths-paps/), containing a clickable map, detailed information sheets per section, a table overview of all PaPs per direction as well as additional information on train parameters, TCRs and distances. For any questions, please address the C-OSS manager (http://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/#section-contactdata).
We are looking forward to welcoming you on the RFC Rhine-Danube network!
To learn the level of satisfaction of the customers with the performance of the corridor, RFC Rhine-Danube conducted its third user satisfication survey for 2023. The survey was conducted in a harmonised manner, most importantly by using a harmonised questionnaire across all 11 RFCs, and coordinated by RailNetEurope.
We would like to thank everyone who filled it in for the valuable feedback and time.
The summary of the results specific for RFC Rhine-Danube can be downloaded here.
Our RFC is taking a deeper look into the results in order to define concrete actions for improvement.
We would like to inform our customers and potential customers that the new Corridor Information Document for Timetable 2025 (Sections 1-4) and the updated Corridor Information Document for Timetable 2024 (Sections 1-4) have been published.
The CID provides information about the conditions of using the RFC comprising infrastructure characteristics, list and description of terminals, capacity allocation rules, and traffic management rules.
A PCS training will be offered in February 2024, providing you with valuable and practical insights needed for requesting capacity on the Rail Freight Corridors for timetable 2025. Moreover, the training will enhance your knowledge by introducing you to (new) features and functions in PCS, informing you about the news for TT 2025 and giving you the chance to practice live with individual and corridor-specific exercises.
Should you be interested in participating to one or several of the trainings, please contact the C-OSS via , or register directly via the following links:
RFC Group 1: jointly organized by RFC North Sea-Med, Atlantic and Mediterranean RFC Group 2: jointly organized by RFC Baltic-Adriatic, Orient/East-Med, Rhine-Danube, Alpine-Western Balkan, and Amber RFC Group 3: jointly organized by RFC Rhine-Alpine, North Sea-Med, Scan-Med, Orient/East-Med North Sea-Baltic and Rhine-Danube RFC Group 4: jointly organized by RFC Baltic-Adriatic, North Sea-Baltic and Amber
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