My earlier post about new night train company Midnight Trains has drawn quite some critique – that having ambitious goals is all very well (people even cited Elon Musk), and that even including a Paris-Edinburgh train in the plans is hence fine. All that is needed is a bit of […]
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Speaking in the European Parliament earlier this week, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen set out some details of European Union Member States’ post-COVID national recovery and resilience plans, and gave some details of the scale of the budget for transport: Let me give you some figures. […]
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Nostalgia is important in railways. Families and enthusiasts alike visit heritage railways, and railway companies across Europe try to motivate passengers to take trains today using symbolism of the past. And there is no symbolism stronger in cross-border rail in Europe than the Trans Europ Express (TEE), probably because more people alive […]
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The European Parliament is currently debating an own-initiative report about a Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy for the EU – the whole legislative dossier is here, and German S&D MEP Ismail Ertug is the Rapporteur. MEPs – perhaps all of them stuck at home and suffering from the same wanderlust […]
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The Council of the European Union today adopted Council Conclusions on railways, entitled “Rail at the forefront of smart and sustainable mobility” – you can read the press story about this, quoting Portugal’s transport minister here. The full conclusions are here (PDF). As I see it these are the two […]
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Today's #NightTrain pic is an #InterCityNotte at #Lecce, sent to us by Noam Schaulin
🇸🇰 locomotive
🇨🇿 carriages
🇭🇺 station
Budapest-Keleti – start and end point for some of the very best railway adventures!
Photo thanks to @hvondelen
We're happy to have our first guest post on Trains for Europe – João Cunha explains how to reintroduce the Sud Express, and sent us this picture of it! https://trainsforeurope.eu/the-future-of-night-trains-in-iberia/ #sudexpress #renfe #portugal #spain #lisboa #hendaye
A night train approaches the #greatbeltbridge #storbæltsbroen – pic von @hvondelen Night trains will run once more here in late June!
Sent to us by Walter Weiss. What a trip! #BalkanExpress #HellasExpress
One of Europe’s great stations: Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. But poorly served by night trains just now. Something we’d love to fix! #TrainsForEurope #FrankfurtMain #FrankfurtHbf #eisenbahnbilder
I’m often asked: is ÖBB’s #nightjet not an answer to the problems of night trains in Europe? The service is super, but is ÖBB ever going to run Köln-Warsaw or Amsterdam-Marseille? I doubt it. We need Europe wide solutions instead.
