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.

Why we need more night trains and how to make it happen

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Detailed night train research from Oui au train de nuit

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 […]

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EIB electric buses funding model the way forward to finance night train stock?

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 […]

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Tough times ahead for German rail supply industry? Procure some night trains!

International Railway Journal reports that the rail industry in Germany is facing tough times. So that makes now surely is an ideal time for new night train rolling stock to be procured!   Photos used in this post Richard Matthews […]

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Croatia: Rijeka and Split the destinations for summer 2021

Private night train operator RegioJet offered a Prague 🇨🇿 – Rijeka 🇭🇷 in summer 2020 and is back for more in 2021… This time the train serves Bratislava 🇸🇰, Budapest 🇭🇺 and Zagreb 🇭🇷, and then splits – with one […]

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Bloomberg publishes new interactive website about night trains in Europe

Entitled “Europe Asks Travelers to Ditch Planes for Night Trains“, Bloomberg has published a sort of interactive guide to night trains in Europe, and what the European Union is trying to do to solve the night train conundrum. It’s not […]

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We support Trains for Europe

Katalin Cseh

Member of the European Parliament, Momentum Movement / Renew Europe, Hungary

PRO BAHN

Passenger federation Fahrgastverband PRO BAHN, Germany

Adrian Fuentes

Passionate train traveller and convinced European

Rayna Stamboliyska

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

Siddharth Sareen

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

Jordan Maris

Auvergnat and Student at the College of Europe, Bruges

Rebecca Taylor

Former MEP and a big fan of night trains

Alex Burrows

Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (University of Birmingham)

Noam Schaulin

Politically active traffic planning student and passionate night train traveler. Basel, Switzerland

Pedro Martins

Portuguese electrical engineering student

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