The Agenda Considers The Needs Of Both Passenger & Freight Operators, Cross Border & Regional

Many operators across Europe are now implementing — or preparing for — ETCS Level 2, often under intense pressure to deliver quickly, safely, and within tight financial and operational constraints.

But not every railway starts from the same place. Some are rolling out L2 at a national scale; others are navigating freight-heavy corridors, regional networks with limited resources, or mixed signalling environments where timelines, funding, and benefits look very different.

This event is designed to bring those realities together — sharing lessons from full-scale Level 2 programmes while addressing how those lessons translate to freight, regional, and mixed-traffic networks where the risks, trade-offs, and business cases are not always obvious.

 Hear Real-World Case Studies outlining:

• Proof of delivery: how others have actually migrated to L2 under      real network density, timetable pressure, and political scrutiny
• Governance models that work: coordination between IMs, operators, suppliers, and regulators — especially where no overlay fallback exists
• Migration sequencing: how to align infrastructure cutovers, rolling stock upgrades, and operational readiness without repeated rework
• Future protection: how today’s L2 decisions stand up against FRMCS, baseline evolution, and long-term cost exposure

Gain clarity on:

• When ETCS L2 genuinely makes sense for freight — and when it doesn’t yet
• How to avoid stranded locomotives at borders due to baseline or authorisation mismatch
• Downtime and availability management during retrofit and migration
• Pragmatic approaches to training, degraded mode, and mixed operation, especially      where exposure is intermittent
• Whether national programmes actually account for freight reality — or expect      freight to adapt at its own cost

Walk away with insights on:

• How to justify ETCS L2 where traffic density is low and budgets are tight
• What “good enough” looks like in terms of baseline choice, architecture, and operational readiness
• How to scale training and competence with fewer drivers, fewer simulators, and longer rollout gaps
• How to avoid being forced into premature upgrades driven by national or corridor-level decisions
• Which elements of large national programmes are transferable — and which are not

This conference unpacks governance, coordination, migration sequencing, and operator alignment from programmes already in motion.

Learning from the Programmes That Didn’t Take the Easy Path

- Migrating to ETCS L2 without overlay fallback.

- Coordinating infrastructure and rolling stock upgrades at a national scale

- Preparing for FRMCS while protecting today’s ERTMS investments