Category: Behind the scenes

Behind the scenes
// 13 August 2025

Several key figures summarise the CFL’s activities, such as the number of passengers carried (31,3 million in 2024), the number of trains running every day on the railway network (1,000 passenger and freight trains) or the number of handling operations at the Bettembourg-Dudelange intermodal hub (219,730 in 2024). Other figures – less well known to…

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Behind the scenes
// 27 May 2025

Respect is as “Easy as 1-2-3”. In conjunction with the National Respect in Public Transport Day on 3 May, the CFL present how the notion of respect coincides with the quality of service offered to customers. It’s a constant process, often carried out behind the scenes A water treatment and recycling plant worthy of a…

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Behind the scenes
// 21 May 2025

Respect is ‘as simple as 1-2-3’. As part of the National Day of Respect in Public Transport on 3 May, the CFL presents how this notion of respect is lived internally to offer the highest quality of service to customers. Get off the train. Take the underpass. Exit onto the forecourt via the main hall. …

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Behind the scenes
// 7 May 2025

Respect is ‘as easy as 1,2,3’. To coincide with National Respect in Public Transport Day on 3 May, the CFL presented how the notion of respect coincides with quality of service for customers. The annual satisfaction surveys carried out proactively by the CFL tell the truth: punctuality is THE most important quality criteria for customers,…

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Behind the scenes
// 11 April 2025

The first four Z2 railcars out of the 20 left for Romania on Friday, April 4, 2025. This operation was coordinated from the Luxembourg shunting yard with the collaboration of CFL cargo, which handled the traction of trains 2001, 2016, 2019, and 2021. In the context of the gradual commissioning of 34 new Coradia trains,…

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Behind the scenes
// 19 March 2025

CFL, CGDIS and CHDN in a large-scale training exercise in Ettelbrück It’s a scenario you don’t want to experience – but one that you can’t ignore: a train accident with several casualties that requires a joint and coordinated response from several players. On Saturday 15 March 2025, the Corps Grand-Ducal d’Incendie et de Secours (CGDIS),…

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Behind the scenes
// 19 February 2025

The CFL’s new electric buses are due to come into service at the beginning of 2025 Dinis De Oliveira, project manager, starts the engine, releases the brakes, his right foot taps the accelerator, then the Mercedes eCitaro bus starts moving: It merges into the traffic almost silently. Passengers on CFL buses will have to say…

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