• At Luxembourg Station, ‘everyone is a VIP’

    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.

  • Mersch station shines in new splendor

    Mersch station now shines in its full new splendor.

  • The cleaning fairies of CFL trains

    Every morning, your train arrives at the station clean and ready for departure. It might seem like magic worked overnight to give it the shine you deserve as a CFL customer.

  • Train punctuality, a quality factor, a sign of respect

    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 Luxembourg – Kleinbettingen – Arlon line prepared for the future

    Since our last visit on the Luxembourg – Kleinbettingen – Arlon line a year ago, the specialised machine for replacing sleepers, track and ballast has returned to prepare the rail network for tomorrow’s mobility.

  • H00: Teamwork for Greater Punctuality

    More than 1,000 trains run daily on the Luxembourg rail network. On average, nine out of ten trains were punctual in 2024. This is quite remarkable in a European comparison, but not good enough for us at CFL, as we aim to continue improving.

Since 2009, the railway community, in collaboration with a growing number of road sector organisations, has been organising an International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD – www.ilcad.org) in more than 42 countries around the world under the slogan : « Act safely at level crossings ». As in previous years, the CFL, together with the…

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Rail freight transport, which is an alternative to road transport, especially on the main European routes, must meet the requirements of its customers in terms of accessibility, reliability and performance. In order to improve the competitiveness of rail freight transport across Europe, the European Commission launched the so-called “European Freight Corridors” (Regulation 913/2010). What is…

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Unlike a driver sitting in his car, the train driver, also called “mécanicien” in French (the mechanic in English), has no direct control over the turning (left and right) of their train. The train convoy is steered mechanically and passively by means of the switch. The switch, commonly referred to as “branchement (French)” (connection in…

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Did you know? The CFL has a driving simulator for training its future train drivers. In addition to the many hours of accompanied driving lessons that take place in real conditions and with the assistance of trainers, CFL train drivers, known as “mécaniciens”, can take advantage of a driving simulator to put the knowledge they…

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To enable safe and organized train traffic, a number of signals and marks are settled throughout the Luxemburg railroad network. In a train driver’s daily job, these signals represent essential orders, reference and orientation points. Have a look on the most important fixed optical signals.   As suggested by its name, the fixed repeater signal…

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Rolling stock is modernised over time. Equipped with the latest state-of-the-art technologies, its speed performance has increased tenfold, which goes hand in hand with optimizing the braking systems. Braking prowess that often goes unnoticed There is a tendency to misjudge a train’s speed, weight and, consequently, stopping distance. A passing train, not stopping at a…

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