In order to proceed to the maintenance and modernization works on the North Line (Line 10), CFL relies regularly on the help of the so-called track-renewal-train. With its weight of 650 tons and a length of 177 meters, the steel colossus Swietelsky RU 800 S definitely catches everyone’s attention along the European rail networks. Besides…
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Running 1,000 or more trains every day to get our passengers where they want to go doesn’t happen by accident. Many of the people responsible for this feat work behind the scenes at CFL. Engineers make up one of the largest groups in our workforce. They analyse, plan, organise and oversee a range of large…
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The hustle and bustle never stops at the Bettembourg-Dudelange intermodal terminal! All day and all night goods trains and trucks are loaded and unloaded in a constant flow of arrivals and departures. Officially opened last summer, the terminal is a European freight hub. Boredom is an alien concept here, as no two days are alike….
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The principle of the park-and-ride car parks of the CFL, or in short P&R, is gaining in popularity. The advantages are obvious: Drive to the nearest P&R car park and from there continue your journey by train to your destination, for example to commute to work. This saves fuel costs, spares the car and protects…
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Those who live near a railway line are only too familiar with the noise of passing trains. The CFL have put various measures in place to maintain the noise level as low as possible, especially for the sake of the residents living in the vicinity of their infrastructures. One of these measures has been developed…
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With the recent commissioning of its rail/road intermodal platform at Bettembourg-Dudelange, the CFL Group has equipped itself with the infrastructures required to continue to confirm itself as a high-performance pan-European hub. With its new site, which has a surface area of 32 hectares, the CFL Group is thereby giving itself the resources to respond to…
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The weekend of 7 July 2017 was marked by the official opening of the new intermodal terminal in Bettembourg-Dudelange. On Friday, the official ceremony took place, in the presence of His Royal Highness, Grand Duke Henri, Mars di Bartolomeo, President of the Chambre des Députés, Etienne Schneider, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs,…
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As an employee of the new office for lost and found items and for baggage storage, which has been available to CFL customers since October 2016, Fränz L. can certainly be called Master of the “Chamber of the Forgotten”. Since the service on the new premises in the vicinity of platform 3AB has been in…
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In addition to a safe and comfortable train journey, one of the most important missions of the CFL is to convey in real time essential information, for example in respect of the punctuality of the trains. The latter especially requires maximum accuracy and speed, two attributes which, above all else, involve automated systems. Two such…
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