Railway company

A railway company is a company service provider which ensures of the services of Transport people or goods on a Railway network.

Regulation

To carry on its activity in the European Union, a railway company must:

on the lawful level, titular being of a License of railway company, delivered by the authorities of the country in which is the exploited network, and of a certificate of safety, delivered by an independent organism, which guarantees its professionalism;
on the technical plan, it must have of Locomotive S and Matériel towed (car S, Wagon S), which it can possibly rent on the market, and to have furrows, i.e. of time slots of circulation, which are allotted to him by the administrative infrastructure n the other hand of a Redevance of access.

These provisions, which rise from European directives apply only to the principal railway network, other than the lans, and in particular of the network of the RATP.

In France

There exists in France at present (April 2007) seven railway companies approved for circulation on the national rail network in addition to the National company of the railroads French (the SNCF):

Europorte 2 (subsidiary company of Eurotunnel)
Veolia Cargo liner (ex CFTA Cargo liner and Connex)
EWSI (subsidiary of the British EWS)
CFL Cargo liner (freight subsidiary company of CFL)
B-Cargo liner (freight subsidiary company of SNCB)
Seco-Rail
VFLI (subsidiary of the SNCF)

See too

List of the railway companies

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