Two successful years after becoming operational, RFC Rhine-Danube has recently been awarded with a CEF grant agreement dedicated by the European Commission.

The goal of the grant is to achieve the specific objectives of Regulation 913/2010/EU on RFC Rhine-Danube as follows:

• Objective 1: Improve coordination between Infrastructure Managers, Member States, Railway Undertakings and managers and owners of Terminals, both between these different groups of actors and – within the groups – across borders;
• Objective 2: Coordinate and plan investments to ensure that infrastructure capacities and capabilities available along RFC RD meet the needs of international rail freight traffic, including as regards interoperability;
• Objective 3: Improve operational conditions for international rail freight services, in particular by coordinating traffic management along RFC RD, including in the event of disturbance and monitor the performance of rail freight services on RFC RD;
• Objective 4: Guarantee international freight trains access to adequate infrastructure capacity, recognizing the needs of other types of transport, including passenger transport;
• Objective 5: Facilitate the use of rail infrastructure for international rail freight services and support fair competition between rail freight service providers;
• Objective 6: Improve intermodality along RFC RD.

RFC Rhine-Danube very much appreciates the financial support provided by the European Commission for the benefit of facilitating rail freight transport.

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 CFR, GYSEV, and MÁV.

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/).

We would hereby like to kindly ask our partners to participate in a short Customer Satisfaction Survey. It will take only a few minutes to fill in.

The survey is available under this LINK. The goal of this survey is to provide us with an overview of the user experience with the Customer Information Platform.

Your answers will help to identify where progress has been made, as well as to identify areas that may need further optimisation and particular focus.

Thank you very much in advance for your contribution!

The Management Board of RFC Rhine-Danube (RFC RD) monitors the performance of rail freight services on the RFC and publishes the results of this monitoring once a year.
Since RFC RD became operational in October 2020, this is its first performance monitoring report.
During the first year of its operation, RFC RD implemented all KPIs commonly applied by all of the other RFCs, too, in order to facilitate the above-mentioned monitoring process in a harmonised way.
This Performance Monitoring Reports describes the results of the commonly applicable RFC KPIs.

You can find the first performance monitoring report here. Read more

We would like to invite our customers and terminal partners to the next meeting of the Operations and Performance Working Group, which will be held again commonly with RFC Orient/East-Med, with the participation of IMs and interested RUs and terminals.

This TPM meeting will be held online and is scheduled for 09:00-16:00 on 19 October 2022.

If you are interested in participating, you may register by sending an email to Mrs Zita Koops-Árvai, Managing Director of the RFC via  

The next meeting of the Advisory Groups of RFC Rhine-Danube will take place on 5 October 2022 between 9am and 2pm. The groups consist of the railway undertakings and the terminals which are located along or using the services of the RFC. You can find more information about these groups here: https://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/rag-tag/

It will be a joint event together with the Advisory Groups of RFC Orient / East-Med, which is the second common event of this kind.

The format of the meeting will be hybrid:

– we will meet you at the headquarters of MÁV in Budapest, and

– for those of you who cannot travel to Budapest, we are going provide the possibility to join via MS Teams.

This customer meeting is an open event, we welcome all interested stakeholders. If you are interested in participating, you may register by sending an email to Mrs Zita Koops-Árvai, Managing Director of the RFC via .

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 with minor impact in timetable year 2023.

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/).

On 10 July, two freight trains collided between Biatorbágy and Herceghalom stations on the line Budapest-Keleti – Hegyeshalom border station. The freight wagons derailed, blocking both tracks and severely damaging them.

From 18:30 on 11 July, one of the tracks became operational again with a speed restriction of 40 km/h on a 100 m long section at the location of the accident, with minor impact on capacity.

The restoration of the second track was finished on 12 July, too.

Source of map: www.cip-online.rne.eu

We are happy to announce that we, together with RailNetEurope (RNE and the other 10 RFCs, will participate with a stand at this year’s Connecting Europe Days in Lyon. Don’t miss out on this special event for mobility and transport, and come visit us at our stand. Find out more about the CE Days here: #ConnectingEurope #EuropeanCommission #CINEA #event #europe #transport #mobility

RFC Rhine-Danube would like to invite the Members of the Terminal Advisory Group to participate in the next RNE-RFC session, which will be a webinar about the Rail Facilities Portal for terminals. It will take place online from 14:00 to 16:00 on 22 June. You can find practical information about the RFP on https://rfp.rne.eu/

As it is an online meeting, if you would like to attend, and have not registered yet, you can still register by sending an email to the RFC Network Assistant via until the day before the webinar.

Please do not hesitate to forward this information to interested colleagues of yours.

Also, we hope to have the facilities of your companies in the RFP, too, soon – if not there yet – so that we can advertise their characteristics and the services provided therein via a user-friendly, forward-looking, and digital sharing of service facility information with a link to the RFP in chapter 3 Terminal Description of our Corridor Information Document for the users of the RFC.

We are looking forward to hear you there.