International Railway Organizations: How Railways Operate Across Borders?

- Support Railways Explained on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/railways_explained ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Buy cool rail-related products on our online store: https://railways-explained.creator-spring.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ► Railways Explained aims to establish a WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY of all RAIL LOVERS, WORKERS AND EXPERTS, by creating regular, entertaining and educational railway content of high quality. ► If you find yourself in at least one of these three groups, support this idea by SUBSCRIBING TO RAILWAYS EXPLAINED. - Railways as a mode of transport have existed for almost 200 years. However, at some point, complexity and differences between different railway systems became so huge that they dictated a need for the establishment of different kinds of international organizations and the formal agreements between the Governments and the railway companies. The aim was to make the traffic on larger scale even possible, by harmonizing, or defining, unique operational rules and regulations, but also the manner of traffic organization and monitoring of overall development of the railway system. That’s why today we are talking about International Railway Organizations. We decided to divide this topic in two main parts, following the logic that there are two main kinds of these organizations. So, in this video, we discuss the Intergovernmental Organizations and, in one of the next ones, the Organizations Formed by the Railway Companies. We tried to explained the main role, scope of work and the list of tasks for the each of the following internaitonal organizations: 1. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE BY RAIL (OTIF)