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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Trains for Europe is now a MitOst e.V. Campaign

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 […]

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A swift assessment of the German Grüne’s night train plans

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We support Trains for Europe

Tatiana Metcalf-Riener

Trains and night trains are a really useful transport system around the world and need to expand.

Rayna Stamboliyska

Policy and cybersecurity specialist, writer and all-time train lover

Martijn Körvers

Flight free since 2007, avid train traveller ever since, and sleeper trains are the best of all!

Mark Smith

Rail Expert – The Man in Seat 61

Martin Speer

Author, FreeInterrail / DiscoverEUInitiator, Berlin

Gereon tho Pesch

Studying Geography and Economics & passionate about European rail travel

Nils Jocher

Night trains are a fast and climate-friendly option to connect people all over Europe. We need them! Based in Basel.

Tim Pritlove

Podcaster, Berlin

Philip Hiersemenzel

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

Germanwatch

Environment research NGO, Berlin