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Hi You have chosen a very good subject which is a big part of the problem moving freight from road to rail.A goods vehicle driver can go wherever he wants, say from England to Poland, without being able to speaka word of Polish. For safety and other reasons it has been decreed that the train driver (engineer) must be able to communicate in the language used on that countries network. In practice it isn't a problem, as locomotives will probably have to be changed.This will probably have to be done in any event for different in cab signalling,means of power supply ( I am assuming electric traction. Apart from the UK which has a pityful sized electrified network, even ex communist block poor countries main lines are mostly electrified, like Romania, or Bulgaria, joining the EU from01-01-2007)not to mention pantograph width, and its head copper, carbon etc. The issue is being addressed and a German rep. in the EU has suggested English! There are plenty of web sites, putting Rail Freight, Interoperability, and if you wish the Country into a search engine. Probably the EU Govt.site adding "transport" is a good place to start Finally a rather excellent example of the problem happened a few years ago. When the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar started operating, the English and French Drivers had to learn enough of the others language to cope with technical and operating needs. A Paris bound Eurostar was happily speeding to the French Capital at 186mph on the LGV through north France when, despite fencing, he hit a stag, and obviously stopped to check his powercar and report to Paris Control.The French controller asked what sort of animal he had struck. The driver thought a bit, not knowing the word, then replied in Cockney French "It was a cow with a pantograph"! Andy
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