Belgian trains will become more unreliable, Infrabel warns

Belgian trains will be arriving late more often, as Belgian rail network manager Infrabel has warned that it lacks the needed resources to guarantee reliability.Infrabel’s financial forecasts are grim, L'Echo and De Tijd report. With a lack of necessary funding, the rail network manager faces tough choices. Instead of closing down lines or cutting back on safety – which Infrabel emphasised is out of the question – savings will be in engineering.This means that the technical life of the railway's assets will have to be “stretched”. The predicted result is more breakdowns, technical defects and unpredictability in equipment.These savings in ‘p…