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NACE 49.20: Freight rail transport

NACE Rev. 2.1 class. Replaces NACE Rev. 2 49.20. Closest ISIC Rev. 4: 4912.

NACE Rev. 2.1 class 49.20 is "Freight rail transport". It sits in section H (TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE), then division 49 (Land transport and transport via pipelines), then group 49.2 (Freight rail transport). In the previous classification, NACE Rev. 2, the activity was covered by 49.20 (Freight rail transport).

What the class includes

This class includes: - freight transport on mainline rail networks as well as short line freight railways

What it excludes

This class excludes: - warehousing and storage, see 52.10 - freight terminal activities, see 52.21 - operation of railway infrastructure and related activities (e.g. switching and shunting), see 52.21 - cargo handling on behalf of others, see 52.24

Correspondence with NACE Rev. 2

NACE Rev. 2Label (Rev. 2)Also maps to
49.20Freight rail transport-

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Official classification texts from EU Vocabularies (Publications Office of the European Union, CC BY 4.0), read on 2026-10-05. Correspondence tables link classes that cover the same activities; one old class can be split across several new ones, so check the notes before you convert a dataset. Information only.