Express freight train paths back on German timetable in 2024
Freight train in Germany
Starting from next year, it will be possible again to book an express train path for freight on the German railway network. This possibility was excluded by the infrastructure manager since the prioritisation of coal trains, a support scheme for coal transportation that started last summer.
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For safe paths booked, however, robustness has to be provided… With current infrastructure, short of as well resilency as redundancy, simply margins at timetables is option left to provide for the needed redundancy…
(All other modes, those redundant, with spare capacity, safely meet with Market demand and safely provide for “JIT”, etc…)
“Optimal maintenance”, current mantra, is costly, is suboptimal!
Standards, already not optimal last century, now are devastating!