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English translation: line

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Spanish term or phrase:	surco
English translation:	line
Entered by:	Karen Rosenberg

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17:27 Jun 9, 2011

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Law/Patents - Transport / Transportation / Shipping

Spanish term or phrase: surco

The text is about rail transport and opening up the Spanish market to other companies:

Hasta la fecha catorce empresas han solicitado licencia para el tráfico de mercancías en territorio español. De ellas, sólo siete han obtenido el certificado de seguridad pertinente y los surcos necesarios para operar: (then comes a list of railway companies.

Surco in this context???
many thanks

Karen Rosenberg

line

Explanation:
rail freight lines

House of Lords - European Union - Fourth Report
(a) Safety certificates and operating licences. 35. A freight train operator who ... market must obtain an operating licence and safety certificate from the national authority of each Member State in which they wish to operate. ... on **rail freight lines** from Felixstowe and Southampton to allow the movement of nine ...
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/.../52/5206.h... - Cached

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or TRACK

Selected response from:

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 07:35

Grading comment

yes seems to be good
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

train path

Charles Davis

line

Lisa McCarthy

Discussion entries: 2

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8 mins confidence:

line

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 07:35
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

yes seems to be good

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

train path

Explanation:
"A train path is the infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period. In Europe, a train operator needs to purchase a train path from a rail infrastructure company to run a train on their tracks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_path

"train paths"
http://www.rff.fr/en/services-and-products/our-product-the-t...

"los surcos"
"Un surco corresponde a la capacidad de infraestructura necesaria para hacer circular un tren de un punto a otro en un momento dado."
http://www.rff.fr/es/servicios-y-productos/nuestro-producto-...

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"pueden existir otro tipo de empresas, como son los operadores de transporte combinado y los agentes de transporte, quienes podrán obtener igualmente una autorización para solicitar surcos de infraestructura ferroviaria en la que poder operar [...]"
http://www.cel-logistica.org/subidasArticulos/90.pdf

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"Essential functions (defined as licensing; allocation of train paths; infrastructure charging; and monitoring delivery of public service obligations) must be entrusted to bodies that do not themselves provide any rail transport services."
http://applications.drdni.gov.uk/publications/document.asp?d...

It seems to be the official EU term; this is referring to an EU directive.

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Also in Lisa's UK parliamentary report:
"We accordingly urge the rail network managers of the European Union Member States to give greater priority to international freight in the allocation of paths over the network."
And other mentions of "paths".
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld20040...

Charles Davis
Local time: 07:35
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

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