Railway undertakings (RAG) | RFC North Sea

The railway undertaking advisory group works in close cooperation with RFC North Sea - Med. In order to consult railway undertakings, the Management board of RFC North Sea - Med organises meetings on a regular basis.

All presentations made during these meetings as well as the minutes of these meetings can be downloaded from this page.

RAG 18 October 2023 - Munich (DE)

Minutes - FINAL

MVP Capacity Intelligence presentation

Update capacity TT2024 incl. Final Offer TT2025 First info

RAG 19 April 2023 - Basel Bad (CH)

Minutes - FINAL

State of Play TT 2024 & TCR

RFC Initiatives & projects presenation and State of Play

O/D Diagrams

Presentations on the common RAG with RFC RALP:

Focus Topic: Migration to Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC)

Rastatt Closure 2024: Update

RAG 1 December 2022 - Online

Minutes - Final

State of Play TT 2024

RFC Initiatives presenation and State of Play

RAG Webinar 21 June 2021: Digital Automatic coupling

Click here to consult the dedicated page

RAG 30 March 2022 - Online

Minutes - Final

Part 1: Regular RAG Meeting: See meeting minutes

Part 2: Specific workshop on the O/D representation:

- Click here for the O/D representation;

- Click here for the supportive presentation.

RAG 23 November 2021 - Online

Minutes - Final

Part 1: Regular RAG Meeting: See meeting minutes

Part 2: Specific workshop on the Return of Experience of the summer crisis events, the ICM case of Rumigny followed by the flooding’s on the Infrabel network: See Meeting minutes

RAG 25 March 2021 - Online

Minutes- FINAL

Welcome word by the Managing Director and Chair of the RAG
What’s new on the corridor? (see minutes)
Expectations of the RAG and feedback RAG Window Executive Board of 17th of March (see minutes)
Update state of Play investments (see minutes)
Start of the WG with RU’s running on RFC RALP and ATL (see minutes)
State of play traffic 2020:
- Presentation of the latest traffic volumes, click here to consult the presentation;
- Discussion, see minutes;
- Additional point discussed during this exchange: TCR DB Netz in 2024: click here to see the slides mentioned by Hupac representative.
Perspective on the traffic and success conditions (see minutes)
State of play punctuality (see minutes)
Update TT 2022: click here to see the presentation
User Satisfaction survey 2020: click here to see the full presentation of the results of the USS 2020
Open Points and AOB (see minutes)

RAG 18 November 2020 - Online

Minutes- FINAL

Welcome word by the Managing Director and the RAG Chairmen
What’s new on the corridor? (Permanent team)
RAG expectations (RAG chair – outcome of the Pre-RAG)
RFC permanent team and MB:

Update action plan (permanent team), click here to see the presentation;
RFC Approach: Helpdesk – Clients entry point (presentation vision by MD);
State of play Coopere/P400 (SNCF Réseau – feedback participating RU’s);
State of play ERTMS (RFC Technical coordinator);
State of play Long trains (see also proposal RAG chair for a WG);
Terminal on time project: state of play pilot Lyon-Bettembourg (permanent team), click here to see the presentation H00Fret;

EC Topics:

Brexit: State of play, Short term consequences and impact, mitigation measures (discussion with the EC representative);
Revision Regulation 913/2010: State of play, update foreseen timeline.

Common topics (RU’s – RFC’s):

Proposal for a WG with RU’s running on RFC RALP and ATL: analysing the impact and opportunities of the opening of the Gotthard and Ceneri Base tunnels: Longer trains, heavier axle load (proposed by RAG chair) + impact TCR on DBNetz (Karlsruhe-Basel) in 2024, click here to see the presentation about TCR on DBNetz in 2024;
Discussion RU’s – RFC: Modal Shift: Longer trains à capacity increase: from IM side, productivity increase from RU side (less shorter trains to run on the network);
User Satisfaction survey 2020: presentation of the results + Tour de table;

RU topics:

ICM: Tour de table RU’s;
Crossborder project UIC: state of play by participatig RU’s + UIC, click here to see the general presentation by UIC and click here to see the presentation given by UIC ;
Tour de table: exchange of production assets (locs – drivers) under RU’s (“Sibelit system”).

RAG 26 February 2020 - Brussels

Minutes - Final
0. Agenda
1. Welcome word by the Managing Director
2. What’s new on the corridor? (Permanent team - No particular points, will be added in the minutes)
3. RAG expectations (Oral presentation given by RAG chair)
4. RFC: New style Action plan/presentations by the Permanent team

TCR Coordination process

5. RU’s: (input by RAG members - will be added in the minutes):

Business situation post French industrial action
Wagons parked on sidings and capacity issue (Terminal request)

6. Common subject: Feedback on ICMs & preparation of the 2020 ICM simulation (Will be included in the minutes)

7. Open Points & AOB: including: Short feedback on the User Satisfaction Survey results.

RAG 18 September 2019 - Paris

Minutes - FINAL
0. Agenda
1. Welcome word by SNCF Réseau
2. What’s new on the corridor? (Permanent team)
3. RAG expectations (Oral presentation given by RAG chair)
4. Update Action plan RFC NSM (Permanent team – Open discussion) + State of Play ICM (Permanent team)
5. Update Performance report 1st Semester 2019 (Permanent team + input asked from the RAG members on the report)
6. New study by RU's consultant tender: some RU’s plan to launch a socio-economic survey for P400 – explanation by the present RUs (in minutes)

RAG 20-21 February 2019 - Brussels

Visit of the Noah's Train - Click to see the news

Minutes - FINAL
0. Agenda
1. What's new on the corridor?
2. RAG expectations (Oral presentation given by RAG chair)
3. Update Action plan RFC NSM
4. ICM presentation by SNCF TGV Team (Cancelled)
5. Performance Report 2018
6. Presentation User Satisfaction Survey - Overall Comparaison 2014 - 2018

RAG 24 September 2018 - Paris

Minutes - FINAL
0. Agenda
1. Welcome word by Jean Ghedira, Directeur général adjoint Clients et Services at SNCF Réseau
2. What's new on the corridor?
3. RAG expectations (Oral presentation given by RAG chair)
4. Update Action plan RFC NSM
4.1. Train linking in TIS
4.2. ICM State of play
5.Update performance report
6. Demo Customer Information Platform Multi Corridor View (cancelled - will be given in a webconference)

Dedicated RAG Workshop on Action Plan RFC NSM - 30 May 2018 - Brussels

Minutes of the Workshop

Update Action Plan RFC NSM

Supportive documents: RNE TIS LinkUp Trains - French MoT: Le potentiel de développement des autoroutes ferroviaires

RAG 31 January 2018 - Basel

Minutes - Final
0. Agenda
1. Welcome by SBB Infra
2. What's new on the corridor?
3. RAG expectations (Oral presentation given by RAG chair)
4. Update Action plan RFC NSM
4.1. Quality of the capacity (in action plan presentation)
4.2. Catalogue TT 2019
4.3. Temporary Capacity Restrictions: Annex 7 (1) - Annex 7 (2) - Athus works
4.4. ERTMS (in action plan presentation)
4.5. State of play loading gauge
5. Presentation of the results of the Customer Satisfaction Survey
6. Train Performance management: Work plan 2018