The campaign to scale up night trains

Too few night trains run in Europe right now. Our demand: that the EU organise the procurement of a new fleet of night trains. This will allow cross-border overnight services to be swiftly scaled up.

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We support Trains for Europe

Janet Anscombe

Retired university lecturer (Classics & Ancient History)

Richard Hunt

Retired advertising executive, regular night sleeper customer, based in Prague

Sony Kapoor

Oslo-based economist

Philip Hiersemenzel

Energy expert and Bundestag candidate 2021 for the German Green Party, Berlin

Pedro Martins

Portuguese electrical engineering student

Siddharth Sareen

Having travelled 300,000+ kilometres by train on three continents, I want better options in Europe!

Adrian Fuentes

Passionate train traveller and convinced European

Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg

Member of the European Parliament – Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Germany (European Greens)

Sebastian Wilken

Train Tracks Blog Founder, Turku, Finland

Andy Rear

Insurance entrepreneur and regular rail traveller