European freight timetables & routes

[motorcycle]

I am searching for diagrams/timetables/routes for European freight trains, particularly Germany and Austria. I have tried EuropeanRailGen but they only have passenger information.

 

I have seen on some photo information a 5 digit number code given with the route, but is there a website/book/magazine that gives these please?

 

Does such a thing exist?

 

Thanks and Happy New Year

[Fat Controller]

I am searching for diagrams/timetables/routes for European freight trains, particularly Germany and Austria. I have tried EuropeanRailGen but they only have passenger information.

 

I have seen on some photo information a 5 digit number code given with the route, but is there a website/book/magazine that gives these please?

 

Does such a thing exist?

 

Thanks and Happy New Year

The five digit number is the UIC train identification- these can be anything from one or two characters up to six (the lowest I've ever travelled on was 19, the morning Paris- Milano TGV), and cover any timetabled working. Most freight workings seem to start with 4. The passenger ones are to be found at the head of timetable columns and on station information signage (as well as being announce on station PAs), but I've not seen any sort of published list- I suspect that where people have quoted numbers, they have some source of local information. There doesn't seem to be any equivalent of Freightmaster generally available- a French friend who subscribes to Freightmaster often bemoans this. He only gets gen himself as he drives for SNCF.

I suspect that, were such a book to be published, it would lots of columns headed 'Fac' or equivalent- the equivalent of Q paths (conditional/runs as required)- as a lot of workings seem to run under 'short-term planning' arrangements. Former colleagues who moved over to SNCF complained that they didn't know what they were to be doing even a couple of days in advance, as they were working 'Fac' workings from Dunkerque, run in connection with ships of coal and iron ore arriving.

[The Stationmaster]

The five digit number is the UIC train identification- these can be anything from one or two characters up to six (the lowest I've ever travelled on was 19, the morning Paris- Milano TGV), and cover any timetabled working.

 

 

That's interesting as it should be in a 9XXX series (high speed passenger train running internationally) - typical of SNCF/FS to ignore the UIC protocol

[Fat Controller]

That's interesting as it should be in a 9XXX series (high speed passenger train running internationally) - typical of SNCF/FS to ignore the UIC protocol

I've seen some 7xxx ones running internationally as well, though I can't remember where.