Transit
Door-ready adds half the gap between departures — the average wait if your cargo becomes ready at a random moment. On a 18-a-week service that is 0.2 days, and it is the figure a road-versus-rail comparison usually leaves out.
Legs and handovers
A single through leg — no gauge break and no operator handover en route.
- 1 Rotterdam Rail Service Centre → Wien Süd TerminalRail Cargo Group · Standard (1435 mm) · 1,250 km · 2 d
Track gauge and borders
The spacing between the rails — whether the wheels can run through, or the load has to change trains.
- Countries crossed
- NL → DE → AT
- Gauge changes
- None — through running
- Origin gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
- Destination gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
Loading gauge clearance
The height and width of tunnels and bridges — whether the load fits through. A different constraint from track gauge above: this corridor can have no gauge break at all and still refuse a high-cube container.
Set by NL, the narrowest network on the route. One restrictive tunnel anywhere caps the whole journey regardless of how generous the rest is. The generous European profile. Required for P400 semi-trailer traffic — the "mega trailer" standard that most new corridor investment targets.
- 40ft standard (8'6") on a container flat
- Clears +904 mm
- High-cube (9'6") on a container flat
- Clears +599 mm
- Swap body on a container flat
- Clears +825 mm
- P400 semi-trailer on a pocket wagon
- Clears +380 mm
Profiles are the published maxima for each network's core freight routes. Individual lines differ in both directions, so a load within 50 mm of the limit needs the operator to confirm the specific path. Compare wagon deck heights →
Emissions
GLEC v3 planning estimate — not a regulatory declaration. Model your own payload with the transit calculator.
Rhine–Danube corridor service linking the North Sea to the Rail Cargo Group hub in Vienna.