Process Calendar

The RNE Process Calendar provides a quick overview of the main processes and milestones within the international timetabling process. It displays information that is relevant both for train Paths Applicants and Infrastructure Managers.



RNE has harmonised the major deadlines within the international timetabling process for the annual timetable:

• Deadline for path ordering for the annual timetable:
  every year on the second Monday in April
• Deadlines for drafting the international timetable:
  every year on Monday, at the beginning of the 13th week after the path request date.
• Deadlines for final answers to customers:
  every year on Monday, at the beginning of the 19th week after the path request date

For more detailed information on the common timetable deadlines and detailed descriptions of the process steps shown in the calendar, please click here. The annual timetable (both freight and passenger traffic) does not stay unchanged during its period of validity. Applicants place requests in the running timetable which concern either the start of new traffic or modifications (cancellation and new requests) for already existing traffic.It is necessary to make regular updates. The Timetable is updated and published at specific dates. The dates are applicable for the running Timetable 2010 according to every Infrastructure Manager's process.

Publication of Timetable Updates in 2010:



Editorial deadlines


It is always possible for applicants to place path requests during the period of validity of the running timetable. However, in order to allow time for a harmonised publication and update of the IMs’ systems, there are editorial deadlines specifying the time limit for accepting path requests in order to secure their inclusion in the next publication of the timetable update. This does not stop information from being given to customers before publication, and this does not stop trains from running. It is just that the inclusion into the official publication of a path which had been requested after the editorial deadline will be carried out subsequently in the one after next timetable update.