After a three year absence, the Paris-Nice Night Train is back. The first service ran last night with an important passenger on board – French Prime Minister Jean Castex. He even made the welcome on board announcement to passengers: Longue vie au Paris-Nice ! pic.twitter.com/POHhMZ51wB — Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) May […]
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On 17 May Germany’s Ministry of for Transport and Digital Infrastructure held its Schienengipfel (Rail Summit) in Berlin. The centre piece of the event was a renewed commitment to speeding up Berlin – Dresden – Prague – Vienna connections, but an eagle-eyed Josh Posaner of Politico spotted an interesting paragraph in […]
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The Ministère de la Transition écologique (Ministry of the Ecological Transition) in France has released a new report entitled ÉTUDE DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DE NOUVELLES LIGNES DE TRAINS D’ÉQUILIBRE DU TERRITOIRE (TET) (STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERRITORY BALANCE TRAIN LINES (TET)) – this assesses the way train connections in […]
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The French campaign group Oui au train de nuit has produced some of the most detailed research about the opportunities for night trains – understandably with the focus on routes within France, and between France and its neighbours. Its first report from January 2020 (PDF here) sets the scene. There […]
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In January 2021, the European Investment Bank and Banque des Territoires launched a Clean Buses Platform – a mechanism through which public transport operators in France have access to up to €100 million to procure electric buses. A similar mechanism might be the way to allow rolling stock leasing companies […]
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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.
