The Railways Division performs tasks relating to the construction, upgrading, renovation and maintenance of the public railway infrastructure and participates in the drafting of national programmes for the development of railway transport and transport infrastructure, as well as in the formulation of laws, implementing regulations and other instruments addressing railways and public passenger transport.

The Division draws up technical background papers for the siting of railway infrastructure and cooperates in spatial planning and siting. It plans, prepares and manages investments in the public railway infrastructure and monitors the implementation of projects in this field.