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Administration des chemins de fer

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Regulator / standards — A State administration under the Ministry of Mobility and Public Works, seated at 1 Porte de France, L-4360 Esch-sur-Alzette. It holds three separate mandates that are elsewhere split between two or three organisations: national safety authority for rail, independent allocation and charging body for the national infrastructure, and safety authority for tramways. It is NOT the rail regulatory body — that function belongs to the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation
Market · Region
European Union · Luxembourg
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Technology areas
Signalling & train control, Digital operations, Cybersecurity

Three-mandate authority: railway and tram safety certification, capacity allocation and pricing, train-driver licensing.

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In its own words, three mandates. For railways, 'Autorité en charge de la sécurité, de l'interopérabilité ferroviaire et de la certification des conducteurs de train' under the law of 5 February 2021, covering safety certification of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers, authorisation of subsystems, recognition of notified, designated and risk-assessment bodies, train-driver licensing, recognition of examiners, training centres, doctors and psychologists, supervision, and register management. For capacity, 'Organisme indépendant de répartition, de tarification et de facturation des capacités de l'infrastructure ferroviaire' under the amended law of 6 June 2019, with the duty of guaranteeing fair and non-discriminatory access and preventing abuse of a dominant position — which is why Luxembourg's network statement is published by the ACF and not by the infrastructure manager. For trams, 'Autorité en charge de la sécurité pour les tramways' under the law of 13 June 2017, with the same family of tasks for tram undertakings and tram infrastructure managers. Its Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs.

Type
Regulator / standards — A State administration under the Ministry of Mobility and Public Works, seated at 1 Porte de France, L-4360 Esch-sur-Alzette. It holds three separate mandates that are elsewhere split between two or three organisations: national safety authority for rail, independent allocation and charging body for the national infrastructure, and safety authority for tramways. It is NOT the rail regulatory body — that function belongs to the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation
Where
Luxembourg · Esch-sur-Alzette
Programmes
ERTMS / ETCS, TEN-T
Technology areas
Signalling & train control, Digital operations, Cybersecurity

Structure

  • regulates CFL — CFL Entreprise ferroviaire holds a single safety certificate for passenger operations issued through the ERA one-stop shop with the ACF for the Luxembourg area of operation, valid to 29 July 2029 (active · since 2024)
  • regulates CFL cargo — CFL cargo S.A. holds a single safety certificate for freight operations valid to 28 October 2026; the ACF's 2025 report lists only two other freight certificate holders on the national network, LINEAS of Belgium and Hexafret of France (active · since 2024)
  • regulates Lineas — LINEAS of Belgium is one of only three holders of a single freight safety certificate for the Luxembourg national network in the ACF's 2025 register, alongside CFL cargo and Hexafret of France; its certificate, issued through the ERA one-stop shop with the ACF for the Luxembourg area of operation, runs to 18 March 2026 (active · since 2024)
  • controlled by MMTP — The Administration des chemins de fer is a State administration under the Ministry of Mobility and Public Works; the ministry's own list of rail-sector actors names it as the national safety authority, and the ACF's tram mandate is exercised on behalf of the minister (active · since 2019)
  • regulates CFL GI — The ACF is the safety authority that holds CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure's safety authorisation, valid to 16 April 2028, and is also the independent body that allocates, prices and invoices capacity on the network CFL manages — which is why Luxembourg's network statement is published by the ACF and not by the manager (active · since 2019)
  • regulates Luxtram — Under the law of 13 June 2017 on tram safety the ACF is the safety authority for tramways; Luxtram's two safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28 November 2027, and the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation LU 60 2025 5001 for the Luxexpo–Findel section on 28 February 2025 (active · since 2017)
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  • ● Administration des chemins de fer — Attributions et missions · Page last modified 25 May 2022. It sets out three distinct mandates. CHEMINS DE FER: 'Autorite en charge de la securite, de l'interoperabilite ferroviaire et de la certification des conducteurs de train', covering safety certification of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers, authorisation of subsystems, recognition of notified, designated and risk-assessment bodies, issue of train-driver licences, recognition of examiners, training centres, doctors and psychologists, supervision of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers, and register management. REPARTITION DES CAPACITES DU RESEAU, TARIFICATION ET FACTURATION DES SILLONS: 'Organisme independant de repartition, de tarification et de facturation des capacites de l'infrastructure ferroviaire', with the mission of guaranteeing every railway undertaking fair and non-discriminatory access to the infrastructure and preventing abuse of a dominant position. TRAMWAY: 'Autorite en charge de la securite pour les tramways', with the same family of tasks for tram undertakings and tram infrastructure managers. The page cites three laws: the law of 5 February 2021 on rail interoperability, rail safety and train-driver certification; the law of 6 June 2019 on the management, access to and use of rail infrastructure and the regulation of the rail market; and the law of 13 June 2017 on tram safety (published 2022 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Network Statement 2027 (DRR 2027), Administration des chemins de fer · 220-page English network statement, version 1.0 of 19 September 2025 (Appendix 2A dated 22 September 2025), published by the ACF and downloaded as a 7.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Section 1.1: 'In accordance with the modified law of 6 June 2019 relating to the management, access, and use of the railway infrastructure and the regulation of the railway market, the Railway Administration ACF exercises the functions of the pricing body and capacity allocation of the national rail infrastructure. The National Railway infrastructure is managed for the state of Luxembourg by the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois ... in accordance with the Grand Duchy regulation of 6 November 2009 about the management contract of the railway infrastructure's approval and the collective convention on the building management dependent on the railway infrastructure signed on 7th May 2009 between the State and the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. The CFL, as an infrastructure manager, is therefore, among other things, responsible for traffic regulations.' Section 1.3.3: 'The function of the independent national regulatory body for the railway sector will be fulfilled by l'Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation (ILR).' Section 2.3.1 track typologies: single track 100.319 km, double track 160.327 km, multiple tracks 0 km. Section 2.3.2: 'The entire national rail network is standard gauge, e=1435mm.' Section 2.3.5: all lines category D4, 22.5 t per axle and 8.0 t per metre. Section 2.3.8: passenger trains at most 16 vehicles, 64 axles, 800 tonnes and 430 m; freight trains never above 850 m. Section 2.3.12: 'CFL commissioned the GSM-R digital mobile radio network on December 9, 2018.' Section 5.3.2.2: the unit charge directly attributable to operating a train path is EUR 2.771 per train-km for 2026 against EUR 2.651 for 2025, all prices excluding VAT; section 5.3.2.3 states 'Lines declared to be saturated: none'. Section 7.2 lists the service-facility categories and points to the Rail Facilities Portal. Appendix 2A carries a data sheet per line for twenty lines (1, 1a, 1b, 2b, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g, 6h, 6j, 6k, 7, 8); nineteen of them give the speed control system as ETCS L1 (line 4 is written 'ETCS Level 1'), and line 6e Esch/Alzette-Audun-le-Tiche, 2.7 km of single track limited to 40 km/h, gives it as ETCS L0. Nineteen lines are electrified at 25 kV or 2x25 kV AC 50 Hz; line 2b Ettelbruck-Bissen, 8.7 km of single track, gives Traction Energy 'System none'. Published contact desks: ACF Division Sillons Guichet Unique, 1 Porte de France, L-4360 Esch-sur-Alzette, +352 261912 23, oss@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite, +352 261912 35 or 33, vehicle-authorisation@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite ferroviaire, +352 261912 27, certification@acf.etat.lu; network-statement enquiries projets.europe@acf.etat.lu; ILR Service Ferroviaire, 17 rue du Fosse, L-1536 Luxembourg, +352 28 228 228, fax +352 28 228 229, ferroviaire@ilr.lu; licensing information at Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics, Departement des transports, L-2938 Luxembourg, +352 247-84400, info@mt.public.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure, B.P. 1803, L-1018 Luxembourg, +352 2489 4512, GI.Courrier@cfl.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure Division Planification Exploitation GI-PE4, +352 2489 5464, gi.ate@cfl.lu; CFL Service Exploitation Infrastructure Supervision Trafic, 16 route de Thionville, L-2610 Luxembourg, +352 2489 3335, ei.supervisiontrafic@cfl.lu; CFL terminals s.a., Terminal Intermodal, Z.A.E. Wolser E, L-3474 Dudelange, +352 4996 0108, access@cfl-terminals.lu and info@cfl-terminals.lu; Societe du Port de Mertert S.A., L-6688 Mertert, +352 74 04 64, info@portmertert.lu. Section 1.7 records that the national network is part of the North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean rail freight corridor and that the ACF is a member of RailNetEurope (published 2025-09-19 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF, Rapport d'activite ferroviaire 2025 · 24-page activity report published by the ACF, downloaded as a 1.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Table 1 lists the certified rail actors using the national rail network: CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure (Luxembourg) holds a safety authorisation valid to 16.04.2028; CFL Entreprise ferroviaire (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for passenger operations to 29.07.2029; CFL cargo S.A. (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for freight to 28.10.2026; LINEAS (Belgium) a single freight certificate to 18.03.2026; Hexafret (France) a single freight certificate to 27.10.2029. Chapter 4: the Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs, with 1,353 no-shows of which 20 per cent passenger, 35 per cent freight and 45 per cent infrastructure manager; 56.6 per cent of path orders were cancellations; 1,004 medium- and short-term train notices and 8,223 very-short-term train notices were issued and 660 short-term works notices checked and validated. Of all train categories run, 58 per cent were passenger (V140 47 per cent, HPV140 11 per cent), 39 per cent freight and 3 per cent infrastructure-manager. Chapter 3: the two tram safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28.11.2027; no new tram was authorised in 2025; since 2017 the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos trams, one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper; on 28 February 2025 the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation for the structural subsystems of section E, Luxexpo to Findel Luxembourg Airport, under identification number LU 60 2025 5001, adding the stations 'Heienhaff P+R' and 'Findel-Luxembourg Airport' over 3.9 km and linking Kirchberg to the airport; 192 tram-driver licences have been issued since 2017. The ACF has held an ISO 9001 certificate since 2015, the current one valid 20.12.2024 to 10.12.2027 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF, Rapport du tramway 2025 · Ten-page tram report, ACF activities plus Luxtram safety information, downloaded as a 477 KB PDF on 14 September 2026. Table 4, evolution of traffic: transport offer 1,005,883 km and 14,900,793 passengers in 2021; 1,118,131 km and 20,195,610 in 2022; 1,270,000 km and 28,700,000 in 2023; 1,460,000 km and 31,700,000 in 2024; 2,003,000 km and 35,200,000 in 2025. The report states that kilometres run rose 37 per cent on 2024 and passengers 11 per cent. Collisions with third parties: 23 in 2025 against 14 in 2024, of which 17 involved vehicles; passenger events 9 against 5; emergency braking 108 against 126. Table 5 injuries in 2025: 14 in total, 10 slight, 4 serious, no deaths. The all-events rate per 10,000 km was 0.15 in 2025 against a STRMTG reference of 0.31 in 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF — Tramways · Page last modified 12 March 2021: 'Conformement a la loi du 13 juin 2017 relative a la securite-tramway, la division tramways de l'ACF accomplit de maniere ouverte, non discriminatoire et transparente' the tasks of checking, promoting, enforcing, developing and publishing the tram safety regulatory framework including national rules, assisting and advising the minister, contributing to tram-safety studies and exchanging information (published 2021 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● transports.public.lu — Transports ferroviaires · The ministry's own page, last modified 5 June 2024, listing the national and European actors in the rail sector: 'Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics (MMTP); Autorite nationale de securite - Administration des chemins de fer (ACF); Regulateur - Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation (ILR); Administration des enquetes techniques (AET); Commission europeenne; Agence de l'Union europeenne pour les chemins de fer (ERA)' (published 2024-06-05 · checked 2026-09-14)

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  • ● Administration des chemins de fer — Attributions et missions · Page last modified 25 May 2022. It sets out three distinct mandates. CHEMINS DE FER: 'Autorite en charge de la securite, de l'interoperabilite ferroviaire et de la certification des conducteurs de train', covering safety certification of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers, authorisation of subsystems, recognition of notified, designated and risk-assessment bodies, issue of train-driver licences, recognition of examiners, training centres, doctors and psychologists, supervision of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers, and register management. REPARTITION DES CAPACITES DU RESEAU, TARIFICATION ET FACTURATION DES SILLONS: 'Organisme independant de repartition, de tarification et de facturation des capacites de l'infrastructure ferroviaire', with the mission of guaranteeing every railway undertaking fair and non-discriminatory access to the infrastructure and preventing abuse of a dominant position. TRAMWAY: 'Autorite en charge de la securite pour les tramways', with the same family of tasks for tram undertakings and tram infrastructure managers. The page cites three laws: the law of 5 February 2021 on rail interoperability, rail safety and train-driver certification; the law of 6 June 2019 on the management, access to and use of rail infrastructure and the regulation of the rail market; and the law of 13 June 2017 on tram safety (published 2022 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Administration des chemins de fer — home · The ACF's own site, https://acf.gouvernement.lu/fr.html. Its published sections are ACF (attributions and missions, legal texts, annual reports, directory, language policy, archives, ISO 9001 certification), Sillons (works planning on the Luxembourg rail network, network statements, long/medium/short-term paths, very-short-term paths, Timetabling Redesign), Chemins de fer (certification of railway undertakings, infrastructure managers and entities in charge of maintenance; staff certification; rolling-stock, control-command-and-signalling and infrastructure-and-energy authorisations; registers; supervision; recognition of training centres and examiners; conformity-assessment and risk-analysis bodies), Tramways, and cooperation agreements with the national safety authorities of France, Belgium and Germany (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Network Statement 2027 (DRR 2027), Administration des chemins de fer · 220-page English network statement, version 1.0 of 19 September 2025 (Appendix 2A dated 22 September 2025), published by the ACF and downloaded as a 7.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Section 1.1: 'In accordance with the modified law of 6 June 2019 relating to the management, access, and use of the railway infrastructure and the regulation of the railway market, the Railway Administration ACF exercises the functions of the pricing body and capacity allocation of the national rail infrastructure. The National Railway infrastructure is managed for the state of Luxembourg by the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois ... in accordance with the Grand Duchy regulation of 6 November 2009 about the management contract of the railway infrastructure's approval and the collective convention on the building management dependent on the railway infrastructure signed on 7th May 2009 between the State and the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. The CFL, as an infrastructure manager, is therefore, among other things, responsible for traffic regulations.' Section 1.3.3: 'The function of the independent national regulatory body for the railway sector will be fulfilled by l'Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation (ILR).' Section 2.3.1 track typologies: single track 100.319 km, double track 160.327 km, multiple tracks 0 km. Section 2.3.2: 'The entire national rail network is standard gauge, e=1435mm.' Section 2.3.5: all lines category D4, 22.5 t per axle and 8.0 t per metre. Section 2.3.8: passenger trains at most 16 vehicles, 64 axles, 800 tonnes and 430 m; freight trains never above 850 m. Section 2.3.12: 'CFL commissioned the GSM-R digital mobile radio network on December 9, 2018.' Section 5.3.2.2: the unit charge directly attributable to operating a train path is EUR 2.771 per train-km for 2026 against EUR 2.651 for 2025, all prices excluding VAT; section 5.3.2.3 states 'Lines declared to be saturated: none'. Section 7.2 lists the service-facility categories and points to the Rail Facilities Portal. Appendix 2A carries a data sheet per line for twenty lines (1, 1a, 1b, 2b, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g, 6h, 6j, 6k, 7, 8); nineteen of them give the speed control system as ETCS L1 (line 4 is written 'ETCS Level 1'), and line 6e Esch/Alzette-Audun-le-Tiche, 2.7 km of single track limited to 40 km/h, gives it as ETCS L0. Nineteen lines are electrified at 25 kV or 2x25 kV AC 50 Hz; line 2b Ettelbruck-Bissen, 8.7 km of single track, gives Traction Energy 'System none'. Published contact desks: ACF Division Sillons Guichet Unique, 1 Porte de France, L-4360 Esch-sur-Alzette, +352 261912 23, oss@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite, +352 261912 35 or 33, vehicle-authorisation@acf.etat.lu; ACF Division Interoperabilite et Securite ferroviaire, +352 261912 27, certification@acf.etat.lu; network-statement enquiries projets.europe@acf.etat.lu; ILR Service Ferroviaire, 17 rue du Fosse, L-1536 Luxembourg, +352 28 228 228, fax +352 28 228 229, ferroviaire@ilr.lu; licensing information at Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics, Departement des transports, L-2938 Luxembourg, +352 247-84400, info@mt.public.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure, B.P. 1803, L-1018 Luxembourg, +352 2489 4512, GI.Courrier@cfl.lu; CFL Direction Gestion Infrastructure Division Planification Exploitation GI-PE4, +352 2489 5464, gi.ate@cfl.lu; CFL Service Exploitation Infrastructure Supervision Trafic, 16 route de Thionville, L-2610 Luxembourg, +352 2489 3335, ei.supervisiontrafic@cfl.lu; CFL terminals s.a., Terminal Intermodal, Z.A.E. Wolser E, L-3474 Dudelange, +352 4996 0108, access@cfl-terminals.lu and info@cfl-terminals.lu; Societe du Port de Mertert S.A., L-6688 Mertert, +352 74 04 64, info@portmertert.lu. Section 1.7 records that the national network is part of the North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean rail freight corridor and that the ACF is a member of RailNetEurope (published 2025-09-19 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF, Rapport d'activite ferroviaire 2025 · 24-page activity report published by the ACF, downloaded as a 1.33 MB PDF, HTTP 200, on 14 September 2026. Table 1 lists the certified rail actors using the national rail network: CFL Gestionnaire Infrastructure (Luxembourg) holds a safety authorisation valid to 16.04.2028; CFL Entreprise ferroviaire (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for passenger operations to 29.07.2029; CFL cargo S.A. (Luxembourg) a single safety certificate for freight to 28.10.2026; LINEAS (Belgium) a single freight certificate to 18.03.2026; Hexafret (France) a single freight certificate to 27.10.2029. Chapter 4: the Sillons division handled 50,391 path orders in 2025, representing 319,887 train runs, with 1,353 no-shows of which 20 per cent passenger, 35 per cent freight and 45 per cent infrastructure manager; 56.6 per cent of path orders were cancellations; 1,004 medium- and short-term train notices and 8,223 very-short-term train notices were issued and 660 short-term works notices checked and validated. Of all train categories run, 58 per cent were passenger (V140 47 per cent, HPV140 11 per cent), 39 per cent freight and 3 per cent infrastructure-manager. Chapter 3: the two tram safety documents were renewed in 2022 for five years to 28.11.2027; no new tram was authorised in 2025; since 2017 the ACF has authorised 33 seven-section Urbos trams, one multifunction road-rail vehicle and one road-rail sweeper; on 28 February 2025 the ACF issued the entry-into-service authorisation for the structural subsystems of section E, Luxexpo to Findel Luxembourg Airport, under identification number LU 60 2025 5001, adding the stations 'Heienhaff P+R' and 'Findel-Luxembourg Airport' over 3.9 km and linking Kirchberg to the airport; 192 tram-driver licences have been issued since 2017. The ACF has held an ISO 9001 certificate since 2015, the current one valid 20.12.2024 to 10.12.2027 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF, Rapport du tramway 2025 · Ten-page tram report, ACF activities plus Luxtram safety information, downloaded as a 477 KB PDF on 14 September 2026. Table 4, evolution of traffic: transport offer 1,005,883 km and 14,900,793 passengers in 2021; 1,118,131 km and 20,195,610 in 2022; 1,270,000 km and 28,700,000 in 2023; 1,460,000 km and 31,700,000 in 2024; 2,003,000 km and 35,200,000 in 2025. The report states that kilometres run rose 37 per cent on 2024 and passengers 11 per cent. Collisions with third parties: 23 in 2025 against 14 in 2024, of which 17 involved vehicles; passenger events 9 against 5; emergency braking 108 against 126. Table 5 injuries in 2025: 14 in total, 10 slight, 4 serious, no deaths. The all-events rate per 10,000 km was 0.15 in 2025 against a STRMTG reference of 0.31 in 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Administration des chemins de fer — Documents de reference du reseau · The page from which Luxembourg's network statements are published, in French and English, for 2026 and 2027, together with train-path order forms. It returns HTTP 200 and 102,258 bytes to a plain curl. The 2027 documents are at /dam-assets/sillon/documents-de-reference-du-reseau/2027/fr-drr-2027-v100.pdf (13.67 MB) and /2027/en-ns-2027-v10.pdf (6.99 MB) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF — Rapports annuels · Index page, last modified 20 July 2026, publishing the ACF's rail activity reports for 2018-2025, its annual safety and interoperability reports for 2015-2024, and its tram reports for 2018-2025, each as a PDF on acf.gouvernement.lu (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● ACF — Tramways · Page last modified 12 March 2021: 'Conformement a la loi du 13 juin 2017 relative a la securite-tramway, la division tramways de l'ACF accomplit de maniere ouverte, non discriminatoire et transparente' the tasks of checking, promoting, enforcing, developing and publishing the tram safety regulatory framework including national rules, assisting and advising the minister, contributing to tram-safety studies and exchanging information (published 2021 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● transports.public.lu — Transports ferroviaires · The ministry's own page, last modified 5 June 2024, listing the national and European actors in the rail sector: 'Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics (MMTP); Autorite nationale de securite - Administration des chemins de fer (ACF); Regulateur - Institut Luxembourgeois de Regulation (ILR); Administration des enquetes techniques (AET); Commission europeenne; Agence de l'Union europeenne pour les chemins de fer (ERA)' (published 2024-06-05 · checked 2026-09-14)

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