"Actually, the business case of the #Nighttrain doesn’t quite addup," explains #IDE alumnus Annabelle Out. That’s why Annabelle designed a carriage interior for both day and night trains as part of her graduation project for the #Engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.
How do you all manage to travel on European Sleeper or Nightjet? Every time I try to book a ticket it's at least 200€ one way. Where's the catch? #NightTrains
»Sleeping across Europe. Night Train Map 2024« is a beautiful map of Europe's night train network. i love the colors and the vision behind it! it was created by @jurim of @backontrack who are "campaigning for more, better, affordable, long-distance and cross-border #nighttrains in Europe"
I have never considered the design of #DB 's official #ICE and #IC network map convincing. This was my motivation to create my own 🇩🇪 long-distance rail map a few years ago. It focuses more on systematic connections and their frequencies for better understanding rather than just showing every line.
🚆 New train service 🇮🇹 Rome – 🇩🇪 Munich and 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇩🇪 Munich, with a possible extension to Berlin;
🚆 New night train service 🇫🇷 Paris – 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇮🇹 Venice;
🚆 New train service 🇩🇪 Munich – 🇨🇭 Zurich.
We’re supporting these and 7 more pilot cross-border train connections across Europe!
Thanks to the Eurostar connection London - Paris and London - Amsterdam, these are simply fabulous. It means we Catalans can visit friends and family back home without the hassle and absurdities of flying. And likewise for friends and family in Croatia – assuming there's going to be a day train from Venice to Zagreb.
There are two ways we can operate #NightTrains: companies can receive subsidies in exchange for letting states set prices, or they can run commercial services and set prices themselves.
But wanting to set high prices and receive subsidies is no way forward. #öbb need to understand that.
So pleased there are night trains into #Germany from #Sweden, the network is growing! There's a certain romanticism that has never left the #NightTrain, often economic benefits, and SO. MUCH. LESS. CO2 compared to flying!
I look forward to making the most of them next year 😊
As night trains are the superior art of traveling, I never understood why in the last decade most train companies dismantled them.
I always suspected a mixture of pseudo-modernism ("high-speed trains are more modern"), lack of cooperation among rail operators of different countries (the European rail system has more of a patchwork than a network) and the conspiracy theory of car and air travel industries lobbying against the most convenient way to travel long distances.
Luckily, follks in Eastern European countries weren't as shortsighted as their counterparts in the other parts of Europe, and maintained their night trains. ÖBB is most active in bringing back night train connections in Europe. Turkyie and Ukraine are good on track, too!
If you want to find night train connections, check this web:
Heading for the Svalbard Science Conference in Oslo. 29 hours of bus - night train - train - train replacement bus and train again from Tromsø to Oslo.
Thumbs up for 'Entur' app to enable a single booking for all 6 tickets door to door.
Definitely winter in some parts of Norway 🥶 @mare_incognitum @sebwilken#NightTrains
Good morning from the night train Berlin - Brussels. I simply love night trains, for so many reasons: They are a very efficient way to travel between European cities, they make sense in a lot of ways, and there is a magic about travelling like 700-1000 km while sleeping (or at least resting 😉), that fascinates me since I was a kid. The future of European mobility should belong to night trains!! #NightTrains#CrossBorderRail#rail#EuropeanSleeper#sleepertrain
A night train linking Berlin and Paris will return in December, nine years after the service was cancelled, the Austrian rail operator ÖBB has announced.
ÖBB will make Mannheim a hub for night trains, with its Brussels-Vienna and Paris-Vienna services also making stops in the city.
ÖBB has been a pioneer in bringing back night trains as Europeans look for low-carbon travel options.
Night trains and cross-Europe trains used to be more common.
"At the height of its operations, in 1974, the Trans-Europe Express (TEE) network comprised 45 trains, connecting 130 different cities, from Spain in the west to Austria in the east, and from Denmark to Southern Italy. "
But night trains in Spain have been removed following new high-speed lines. Deutsche Bahn also abandoned them. SNCF closed several (edited: not during the pandemic but in 2016-2017)
As far as I know, it wouldn't be easy. First, finding a route that runs for 10 hours at 300km, it has to be a point-to-point route between two very big cities.
Then, rolling stock for sleeper trains is made to combine cars: 2 cars seating, 3 couchettes, 3 beds, changing when needed, whereas high speed trains are fixed compositions.
That's my understanding, other people probably know more
Night trains are still waiting for their big break.
As an attractive alternative to car or air travel to minimise carbon dioxide emissions, night trains are making a comeback in Europe. But the big bang their fervent advocates had hoped for is running up against numerous economic and industrial hurdles.
The story of the #Erasmus friends' reunion in which they travelled by #Train
And the issues they found along the way
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Antwerp, 23h, on a nice, warm Friday night in the middle of May. A group of Erasmus students riding their bikes are crossing the pedestrian tunnel under the river Schelde. They have just stopped by the Night Shop, and now their bike bags are full of cheap beer.
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Suddenly someone launches a big proposal: what if they meet again next year?
... https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-erasmus-friends