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An Iberian interrail adventure lacking night trains
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 […]
A swift assessment of the German Grüne’s night train plans
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 […]
Trains for Europe and the Future of Europe! Endorsements welcome
The European Union is currently organising its “Conference on the Future of Europe” and one of aspects of that is a kind of system to collect ideas about what the EU should do in the future. Within the climate change and the environment category I have submitted the idea that […]
We’ll be on the #ConnectingEurope Express – Kraków to Ljubljana
2021 is the EU Year of Rail, and so the European Commission DG MOVE and Community of European Railways are running the “Connecting Europe Express” in September and October to try to show what rail can do for Europe and for the green transition. The train departed from Lisbon on […]
Summer update – there’s a lot going on behind the scenes!
Trains for Europe has been running in public for a couple of months now, and wow, what progress we have managed to make already! Above all we have been speaking to all sorts of people about our plans – people in EU institutions and agencies, in national administrations, in leasing […]
The German passenger federation PRO BAHN supports the Trains for Europe initiative
Without the central procurement of night trains, the desired goals of the EU commission are not attainable. This centralized procurement enables old players and new entrants to quickly acquire new night train units to match the growing demand. At the end of June 2021, Snälltåget launched its new night train […]
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