Back in September 2020, Swedish transport authority Trafikverket sought to award contracts to run two international night trains from summer 2022 – Stockholm-Hamburg and Malmö-Bruxelles. Sweden’s state owned railway firm SJ won the contract to run Stockholm-Hamburg (with rolling stock provided by RDC), but no bids were received for Malmö-Bruxelles, so […]
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We’ve previously examined the headaches finding rolling stock (i.e. carriages) for the new Zürich – Amsterdam NightJet that will run from December this year, but now another problem has come to light – the locomotives, and specifically that they are too heavy. We’ve been pointed towards this PDF issued by […]
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From the very start Trains for Europe needed to be a nimble and flexible campaign, and that meant partnering with an organisation to give Trains for Europe a legal structure, and to be able to do book-keeping and allow online donations to be accepted (we’re now working on the tech […]
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Milan Marcus spent the summer doing some research for Trains for Europe on the market potential of possible night train routes. He also travelled by rail for two weeks from Germany to Portugal and back on an interrail pass. This trip highlighted the need for better (international) connections throughout Europe […]
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The German Bundestag election is taking place 26th September, and yesterday a group of Members of the Bundestag (MdBs) and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Grüne (Green Party) released a new map and paper about their plans for night trains in Europe post-election. The plans are available on […]
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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.
