Topic: Timetable

Infrastructure managers and rail fees cause another headache to rail freight

Recently established railway infrastructure fees related to train cancellations, parking and service quality cause yet another headache to the rail freight industry. That is because they are not always proportionate, while they are not accompanied...Read more

27-06-2023|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

Germany wants to give freight trains priority more often

Susanne Henckel, Germany’s secretary of state for digital affairs and transport, believes that freight and passenger transport should be treated equally when there are conflicting timetables on the railways. Currently, regular passenger transport is still...Read more

27-02-2023|Comment|author: Simone van der Lee

UK freight operators relaxed about relaxed lockdown timetable

UK freight operators face additional traffic from today, as the government relaxes some lockdown regulations, and sanctions a more intensive passenger timetable. However, even though passenger traffic is back on the UK network, the passengers...Read more

18-05-2020|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Re-design of European timetable starts in December

A pilot phase proposing radical changes to the railway timetabling procedures of Europe starts in December 2017. Currently, international train operations are difficult to coordinate due to a lack of harmonised timetabling procedures between European...Read more

24-10-2017|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen