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==National Railway System== | ==National Railway System== | ||
===National Railway Operator=== | ===National Railway Operator=== | ||
Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois ([ | Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois ([https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb CFL]). | ||
==Language== | ==Language== | ||
Letzebuergesch, French and German | Luxembourgish (''Letzebuergesch''), French and German | ||
==Currency== | ==Currency== | ||
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==Timetable== | ==Timetable== | ||
===Journey Planner=== | ===Journey Planner=== | ||
[ | [https://horaires.cfl.lu/bin/query.exe/fn Liaisons - recherche] | ||
===Downloadable Timetable=== | ===Downloadable Timetable=== | ||
[ | [https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb/timetable/sheets Timetable sheets]. Under "Timetable sheets in PDF Format", select the option required: | ||
* Regional timetables | |||
* International timetables | |||
===Printed Timetable=== | ===Printed Timetable=== | ||
CFL no longer produces a printed timetable. However, timetable sheets are available for each line and for bus services and international trains. | |||
===Engineering Information=== | ===Engineering Information=== | ||
[ | [https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb/works Work Sites] | ||
There is another link for disruptions. | |||
[https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb/disturbances Disruptions] | |||
===Bus Information=== | ===Bus Information=== | ||
[ | [https://www.mobiliteit.lu/fr/horaires-et-lignes/bus/ Horaires et Lignes - Bus] | ||
===Tram Information=== | |||
[https://www.mobiliteit.lu/fr/horaires-et-lignes/tram/ Horaires et Ligne - Tram] | |||
==Maps== | ==Maps== | ||
===Printed Maps=== | ===Printed Maps=== | ||
*European Railway Atlas: France | *[[Printed Maps#ERA-E | European Railway Atlas (All-Europe Edition)]] by M.G. Ball. | ||
*[ | *[[Printed Maps#ERA-R-1 | European Railway Atlas (Regional Atlas Series, Book 1: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg)]] by M.G. Ball. | ||
*[[Printed Maps#SW-FR-1 | Eisenbahnatlas Frankreich Band 1: Nord]] by Schweers + Wall. Page 19 shows railways in southern half of Luxembourg. | |||
*[[Printed Maps#SW-DE | Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland]] by Schweers + Wall - has a page including the Trier - Wasserbillig area. | |||
*A fourth edition of the [https://nijverepublishers.nl/en/Books-and-maps/Benelux-Rail-Topo Benelux Rail Topo] was published in 2023 (ISBN/EAN 978 90 73280 19 9). In full colour to a scale of 1:550,000 and with a register of over 1,000 stations. | |||
===Web-based Maps=== | ===Web-based Maps=== | ||
*[ | *[https://www.sporenplan.nl/ Sporenplan] has a schematic track diagram. Click on "Sporenplannen" on the left hand side for a map showing the countries covered. | ||
* | *[https://websites.umich.edu/~yopopov/rrt/railroadmaps/netherlands_belgium_luxembourg.html Benelux Map] dated January 2023 - on the [https://websites.umich.edu/~yopopov/rrt/railroadmaps/ Railroad Maps site]. | ||
==Ticketing== | |||
Since 29 February 2020, all public transport in Luxembourg has been free of charge to use at all times which includes CFL trains in second class. The [https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb/ticket CFL Tickets] web page gives details of all remaining ticket types including domestic First Class tickets, (and note as at November 2024 that an all-day 1st class day ticket was available for €6). | |||
==Infrastructure== | ==Infrastructure== | ||
===Infrastructure Authority=== | ===Infrastructure Authority=== | ||
The Administration des Chemins de Fer ([ | The Administration des Chemins de Fer ([https://acf.gouvernement.lu/en.html/ ACF]) is the national authority for the railways and tramways. | ||
===Network Statement=== | ===Network Statement=== | ||
[ | [https://acf.gouvernement.lu/fr/sillon/Document-de-reference-du-reseau.html Documents de Référence du Réseau (DDR)] > Network Statements for DRR 2024 and DDR 2025 (English versions). | ||
===Gauge=== | ===Gauge=== | ||
| Line 50: | Line 66: | ||
===Electrification=== | ===Electrification=== | ||
All CFL passenger routes are electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz as defined in The Railway Administration (ACF) 2020 Network Statement. | |||
The Luxtram tramway system operates at 750 V d.c. | |||
===Rule of the road=== | ===Rule of the road=== | ||
| Line 56: | Line 74: | ||
===Distances=== | ===Distances=== | ||
Detailed distances for each line are given in the Network Statement Appendix | Detailed distances for each line are given in the Network Statement Appendix 2A: The Luxembourg Rail Network | ||
==Other Railways== | ==Other Railways== | ||
| Line 62: | Line 80: | ||
==Tourist Lines== | ==Tourist Lines== | ||
*[ | *[https://www.train1900.lu/?lang=en L'Association des Musee et Tourisme Ferroviaires (AMTF) ''(Train 1900)''] (standard gauge, 8 km length): Pétange (close to CFL station) to Bois de Rodange with reversal at Fond de Gras. A connection with the CFL network at Pétange sees occasional through excursion trains. | ||
* [ | * [https://minieresbunn.lu/fr/ Minièresbunn Doihl asbl (MBD)] (700 mm gauge): a preserved mining line, from Fond de Gras via Doihl and through a 1400 m long tunnel to Lasauvage. Thence are two branches: to Saulnes [France] and to Lasauvage Eglise. Part (including the tunnel) is electrified at 500 V dc while other sections are worked by steam or diesel. | ||
* [ | * [https://www.mnm.lu/en/ Musée National de Mines de Fer] (700 mm gauge 4.2 km circuit): a preserved mining line at Rumelange. | ||
* [https://www.ardoise.lu/?lang=en Slate Museum Industrial Train Tour] (narrow gauge, less than 1 km length); a tourist line at the national slate museum at Martelange Haut. Trains normally run in the afternoon on Sundays and Holidays in summer subject to weather and availability. | |||
==Metro== | ==Metro== | ||
None | None | ||
==Trams== | == Trams/LRT Systems == | ||
Luxtram - see [https://www.luxtram.lu/ Luxtram] (in French or German) or [https://wikimonde.com/article/Tramway_de_Luxembourg Wikimonde] (in French) websites. | |||
An up-to-date track plan for the Luxtram system, also showing future extensions, is available on the [https://www.gleisplanweb.eu/Map-e.php?Map=Luxemburg Gleisplanweb site]. | |||
Planning has started on a new fast tram line between Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette, with a planned opening date in 2028. | |||
==Recent and Future Changes== | ==Recent and Future Changes== | ||
The line between Luxembourg and | |||
===Recent ''(latest first)'' changes=== | |||
At the new Gare de Howald , opened December 2017, the summer 2025 works closure [11 July - 14 September] has allowed the building and commissioning of a new Platform [Quai?] II, with faces 3 & 4. All trains now use these platform faces with an access route via the yard adjacent to the CRM (depot). The final intetion is for trains for Luxembourg – Esch/Alzette – Rodange trains to use these platforms after the new Howald to Bettembourg HSL is opened | |||
The original Gare de Howald Platform [Quai] I, with faces 1 & 2, has been taken out of use and disconnected. Work is underway to extend the canopy on this platform. The final intention is for trains using the new Howald to Bettembourg HSL, and so for Thionville/Nancy, to use these platform faces. | |||
A further short closure is due 1 - 9 November 2025, which may further alter these arrangements. | |||
A new cross-border service opened on 3 March 2025 on line 30 between Luxembourg, Wasserbillig and Wittlich, routed via Trier West. This runs on Mondays to Saturdays only. Opening was originally planned for 2019 but was delayed by overrunning track and station works in Germany. | |||
The new Luxtram tram network has opened in stages as follows: | |||
* 2 March 2025: 3.6 km eastwards from Luxexpo to Findel Aéroport | |||
* 7 July 2024: 4 km southwards from Lycée Bouneweg to Stadion | |||
* 11 September 2022: 1.3 km southwards from Gare Centrale to Lycée Bouneweg | |||
* 13 December 2020: 2 km southwards from Stäreplaz to Gare Centrale with catenary-free contactless running | |||
* 27 July 2018: 1.6 km westwards from Rout Bréck–Pafendall to Stäreplaz/Etoile with catenary-free contactless running | |||
* 10 December 2017: the first 3.5 km section opened between Luxexpo and Rout Bréck–Pafendall (where there is a funicular link to the CFL Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station). | |||
A 4 metre section of the roof of the 236 metre single track Schieburg tunnel, on Line 10 north from Luxembourg to Gouvy and Liège, collapsed during maintenance work at the end of August 2022, closing it to all traffic. | |||
The reopening was almost a year later on 24 July 2023 after repair and reinforcement of the roof of the tunnel. | |||
As part of the creation of an intermodal hub an additional platform and two further through tracks have been added at Ettelbruck station. This also allows Diekirch branch trains to proceed as far as Ettelbruck to wait for trains off the branch there. This project was completed in 2022. | |||
CFL officially inaugurated two new platforms, four new platform tracks (nos. 11-14) and a new footbridge at Luxembourg Gare Centrale on 12 December 2021. | |||
All public transport (Second Class only) in Luxembourg became free to use from 29 February 2020 in an effort to ease road congestion. Free Second Class public transport for under 20s started on 1 August 2018. | |||
In July 2019, CFL stopped operating across the border from Rodange to Aubange and Virton due to the GSM-R systems on their 2200 series units not being acceptable in Belgium. The service had been reduced to a skeleton service from 17 February 2016 and withdrawn completely from 20 June but had resumed from 11 December 2016. | |||
The new parallel viaduct at Pulvermühle (just north of Luxembourg Gare Centrale), allowing Lines 10 and 30 to be split, and the associated double tracking of the line through to Sandweiler-Contern were inaugurated on 11 June 2019. | |||
Conversion of line 5, Luxembourg – Kleinbettingen - frontier, from 3 kV DC to 25 kV 50 Hz ac was completed in autumn 2018. | |||
On 10 December 2017 new stations opened at Howald (on the Bettembourg line) and at Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg (on the Wasserbillig line, affording connection by funicular with the new tram line (see Luxtram opening list above.)). | |||
From 20 July 2017 the CFL Luxembourg rail network was equipped with the ETCS level 1 European train control system, See [https://groupe.cfl.lu/en-gb/project/detail/european-train-control-system CFL ETCS Level 1]. | |||
From 4 April 2016 the service from Thionville to Longwy over the Bettembourg avoiding line was withdrawn. | |||
Double tracking of the line from Hollerich to Pétange was completed in December 2012. | |||
The extension of the line across the border from Dudelange to Volmerange-les-Mines in France opened to public traffic on 15 December 2003. | The extension of the line across the border from Dudelange to Volmerange-les-Mines in France opened to public traffic on 15 December 2003. | ||
Work | ===Future changes=== | ||
*Gare Centrale is undergoing a long-term rebuilding programme to increase capacity, started in 2006. | Two further extensions of the Luxtram network were approved in February 2024. A line to the Kirchberg Plateau, Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station and the new K2 neighbourhood, with first phase open in 2027. The HO line, branching off from near Gare Centrale, to serve the future "Nei Hollerich" neighbourhood and its Hollerich interchange station, with first phase open in 2028. | ||
Work is underway (at December 2024) on the following projects:- | |||
*A new line | * Gare Centrale is undergoing a long-term rebuilding programme to increase capacity, started in 2006, including adding two extra platforms and four new tracks. One new track (no. 11) was opened at the December 2019 timetable change and the remaining three (nos. 12, 13 & 14) opened on 12 December 2021. Further work remodelling the southern approaches started in 2022. The extension project completion is due in 2025 with gradual commissioning of Luxembourg Station in its new form. | ||
* A new line is being built from Howald to Bettembourg. The first phase, covering construction of the new line and temporary connections to the existing line at Howald and Bettembourg, was approved in February 2016. Two further summers (2026 & 2027) of construction works are planned with a complete shutdown of traffic to connect the new line in 2027. Technical and commercial commissioning is to gradually take place from the second half of 2027 and the line brought into service at the end of 2027 or start of 2028. See [https://blogcfl.lu/en/engineering-worksprojets/the-new-luxembourg-bettembourg-line-in-pictures-and-in-numbers CFL Works Blog]. | |||
* two new 'peripherique' stations are to be constructed at Dommeldange and Cessange. | |||
Planning started in 2020 on a new fast tram line between Luxembourg via Esch-sur-Alzette to Belval and Belvaux, with a planned opening date to Leudelange in 2026. Further sections are planned to open at 2 year intervals; reaching Esch-sur-Alzette by 2032 with Belval and Belvaux being reached in 2035. | |||
See [https://transports.public.lu/fr/planifier/projets-et-chantiers-en-cours/extensions-reseau-tram/tram-rapide.html Le Tram Rapide] (In French). | |||
A proposal for SuperBus feeder routes in France could threaten the outer end of Line 60c: Esch-sur-Alzette – Audun-le-Tiche with closure in 2028. | |||
==Special Notes== | ==Special Notes== | ||
CFL provides the only passenger service to Audun-le-Tiche and Volmerange les Mines (France). | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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[[Category:General Information]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:02, 24 September 2025
Country Name
Luxembourg
National Railway System
National Railway Operator
Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois (CFL).
Language
Luxembourgish (Letzebuergesch), French and German
Currency
Euro
UIC code
numeric 82; alpha L
Timetable
Journey Planner
Downloadable Timetable
Timetable sheets. Under "Timetable sheets in PDF Format", select the option required:
- Regional timetables
- International timetables
Printed Timetable
CFL no longer produces a printed timetable. However, timetable sheets are available for each line and for bus services and international trains.
Engineering Information
There is another link for disruptions.
Bus Information
Tram Information
Maps
Printed Maps
- European Railway Atlas (All-Europe Edition) by M.G. Ball.
- European Railway Atlas (Regional Atlas Series, Book 1: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) by M.G. Ball.
- Eisenbahnatlas Frankreich Band 1: Nord by Schweers + Wall. Page 19 shows railways in southern half of Luxembourg.
- Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland by Schweers + Wall - has a page including the Trier - Wasserbillig area.
- A fourth edition of the Benelux Rail Topo was published in 2023 (ISBN/EAN 978 90 73280 19 9). In full colour to a scale of 1:550,000 and with a register of over 1,000 stations.
Web-based Maps
- Sporenplan has a schematic track diagram. Click on "Sporenplannen" on the left hand side for a map showing the countries covered.
- Benelux Map dated January 2023 - on the Railroad Maps site.
Ticketing
Since 29 February 2020, all public transport in Luxembourg has been free of charge to use at all times which includes CFL trains in second class. The CFL Tickets web page gives details of all remaining ticket types including domestic First Class tickets, (and note as at November 2024 that an all-day 1st class day ticket was available for €6).
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Authority
The Administration des Chemins de Fer (ACF) is the national authority for the railways and tramways.
Network Statement
Documents de Référence du Réseau (DDR) > Network Statements for DRR 2024 and DDR 2025 (English versions).
Gauge
Standard
Electrification
All CFL passenger routes are electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz as defined in The Railway Administration (ACF) 2020 Network Statement.
The Luxtram tramway system operates at 750 V d.c.
Rule of the road
Right (except for the Sterpenich - Luxembourg section which is used by SNCB and has left hand running).
Distances
Detailed distances for each line are given in the Network Statement Appendix 2A: The Luxembourg Rail Network
Other Railways
None.
Tourist Lines
- L'Association des Musee et Tourisme Ferroviaires (AMTF) (Train 1900) (standard gauge, 8 km length): Pétange (close to CFL station) to Bois de Rodange with reversal at Fond de Gras. A connection with the CFL network at Pétange sees occasional through excursion trains.
- Minièresbunn Doihl asbl (MBD) (700 mm gauge): a preserved mining line, from Fond de Gras via Doihl and through a 1400 m long tunnel to Lasauvage. Thence are two branches: to Saulnes [France] and to Lasauvage Eglise. Part (including the tunnel) is electrified at 500 V dc while other sections are worked by steam or diesel.
- Musée National de Mines de Fer (700 mm gauge 4.2 km circuit): a preserved mining line at Rumelange.
- Slate Museum Industrial Train Tour (narrow gauge, less than 1 km length); a tourist line at the national slate museum at Martelange Haut. Trains normally run in the afternoon on Sundays and Holidays in summer subject to weather and availability.
Metro
None
Trams/LRT Systems
Luxtram - see Luxtram (in French or German) or Wikimonde (in French) websites.
An up-to-date track plan for the Luxtram system, also showing future extensions, is available on the Gleisplanweb site.
Planning has started on a new fast tram line between Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette, with a planned opening date in 2028.
Recent and Future Changes
Recent (latest first) changes
At the new Gare de Howald , opened December 2017, the summer 2025 works closure [11 July - 14 September] has allowed the building and commissioning of a new Platform [Quai?] II, with faces 3 & 4. All trains now use these platform faces with an access route via the yard adjacent to the CRM (depot). The final intetion is for trains for Luxembourg – Esch/Alzette – Rodange trains to use these platforms after the new Howald to Bettembourg HSL is opened
The original Gare de Howald Platform [Quai] I, with faces 1 & 2, has been taken out of use and disconnected. Work is underway to extend the canopy on this platform. The final intention is for trains using the new Howald to Bettembourg HSL, and so for Thionville/Nancy, to use these platform faces. A further short closure is due 1 - 9 November 2025, which may further alter these arrangements.
A new cross-border service opened on 3 March 2025 on line 30 between Luxembourg, Wasserbillig and Wittlich, routed via Trier West. This runs on Mondays to Saturdays only. Opening was originally planned for 2019 but was delayed by overrunning track and station works in Germany.
The new Luxtram tram network has opened in stages as follows:
- 2 March 2025: 3.6 km eastwards from Luxexpo to Findel Aéroport
- 7 July 2024: 4 km southwards from Lycée Bouneweg to Stadion
- 11 September 2022: 1.3 km southwards from Gare Centrale to Lycée Bouneweg
- 13 December 2020: 2 km southwards from Stäreplaz to Gare Centrale with catenary-free contactless running
- 27 July 2018: 1.6 km westwards from Rout Bréck–Pafendall to Stäreplaz/Etoile with catenary-free contactless running
- 10 December 2017: the first 3.5 km section opened between Luxexpo and Rout Bréck–Pafendall (where there is a funicular link to the CFL Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station).
A 4 metre section of the roof of the 236 metre single track Schieburg tunnel, on Line 10 north from Luxembourg to Gouvy and Liège, collapsed during maintenance work at the end of August 2022, closing it to all traffic. The reopening was almost a year later on 24 July 2023 after repair and reinforcement of the roof of the tunnel.
As part of the creation of an intermodal hub an additional platform and two further through tracks have been added at Ettelbruck station. This also allows Diekirch branch trains to proceed as far as Ettelbruck to wait for trains off the branch there. This project was completed in 2022.
CFL officially inaugurated two new platforms, four new platform tracks (nos. 11-14) and a new footbridge at Luxembourg Gare Centrale on 12 December 2021.
All public transport (Second Class only) in Luxembourg became free to use from 29 February 2020 in an effort to ease road congestion. Free Second Class public transport for under 20s started on 1 August 2018.
In July 2019, CFL stopped operating across the border from Rodange to Aubange and Virton due to the GSM-R systems on their 2200 series units not being acceptable in Belgium. The service had been reduced to a skeleton service from 17 February 2016 and withdrawn completely from 20 June but had resumed from 11 December 2016.
The new parallel viaduct at Pulvermühle (just north of Luxembourg Gare Centrale), allowing Lines 10 and 30 to be split, and the associated double tracking of the line through to Sandweiler-Contern were inaugurated on 11 June 2019.
Conversion of line 5, Luxembourg – Kleinbettingen - frontier, from 3 kV DC to 25 kV 50 Hz ac was completed in autumn 2018.
On 10 December 2017 new stations opened at Howald (on the Bettembourg line) and at Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg (on the Wasserbillig line, affording connection by funicular with the new tram line (see Luxtram opening list above.)).
From 20 July 2017 the CFL Luxembourg rail network was equipped with the ETCS level 1 European train control system, See CFL ETCS Level 1.
From 4 April 2016 the service from Thionville to Longwy over the Bettembourg avoiding line was withdrawn.
Double tracking of the line from Hollerich to Pétange was completed in December 2012.
The extension of the line across the border from Dudelange to Volmerange-les-Mines in France opened to public traffic on 15 December 2003.
Future changes
Two further extensions of the Luxtram network were approved in February 2024. A line to the Kirchberg Plateau, Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station and the new K2 neighbourhood, with first phase open in 2027. The HO line, branching off from near Gare Centrale, to serve the future "Nei Hollerich" neighbourhood and its Hollerich interchange station, with first phase open in 2028.
Work is underway (at December 2024) on the following projects:-
- Gare Centrale is undergoing a long-term rebuilding programme to increase capacity, started in 2006, including adding two extra platforms and four new tracks. One new track (no. 11) was opened at the December 2019 timetable change and the remaining three (nos. 12, 13 & 14) opened on 12 December 2021. Further work remodelling the southern approaches started in 2022. The extension project completion is due in 2025 with gradual commissioning of Luxembourg Station in its new form.
- A new line is being built from Howald to Bettembourg. The first phase, covering construction of the new line and temporary connections to the existing line at Howald and Bettembourg, was approved in February 2016. Two further summers (2026 & 2027) of construction works are planned with a complete shutdown of traffic to connect the new line in 2027. Technical and commercial commissioning is to gradually take place from the second half of 2027 and the line brought into service at the end of 2027 or start of 2028. See CFL Works Blog.
- two new 'peripherique' stations are to be constructed at Dommeldange and Cessange.
Planning started in 2020 on a new fast tram line between Luxembourg via Esch-sur-Alzette to Belval and Belvaux, with a planned opening date to Leudelange in 2026. Further sections are planned to open at 2 year intervals; reaching Esch-sur-Alzette by 2032 with Belval and Belvaux being reached in 2035.
See Le Tram Rapide (In French).
A proposal for SuperBus feeder routes in France could threaten the outer end of Line 60c: Esch-sur-Alzette – Audun-le-Tiche with closure in 2028.
Special Notes
CFL provides the only passenger service to Audun-le-Tiche and Volmerange les Mines (France).
