Zukunftsstudie #Nachtsprung Zürich 2040 - frisch aus der digitalen Presse von Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz #Zürich + Zürich Tourismus (auf DE+EN).🌜🚆🛏️🚍🇨🇭🌍
👉 www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/aktuell/p...
#Nachtzug #NightTrain #TrainDeNuit #TrenoNotturno #ZugStattFlug #CrossBorderRail
@back-on-track.eu
Politico on the "derailment" of the revival of #nighttrains in 2025. In essence, it is the current politically determined market design that makes regular night train services unprofitable.
👉 Visit back-on-track.eu/general-posi... for more information.
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Thank you to everyone who supported the community efforts to keep the night train rolling in 2025 — from dancing in pyjamas to thoughtful panel discussions. We’re already looking ahead to 2026. Until then, we wish you a very merry holiday season. 🚅 ✨
#BackOnTrack #NightTrains #ConnectEurope
Some progress: On Tuesday the sustainability committee in the 🇫🇷 Assemblée nationale adopted in 1st reading an amendment to the 2026 budget proposing 5.5 M € for subsidies in order to resume the Berlin/Vienna-Paris night train service in Spring 2026. #ouiautraindenuit
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Bad news for night train lovers: 🌙 The Paris–Berlin/Vienna connection ends this December, and the Berlin–Stockholm route will follow in 2026. Politics, not passengers, are derailing Europe’s night trains. We need fair conditions & stable support for sustainable travel. 🚆💔
Just in time for our conference our volunteers finished our brand new platform for organising future Trans-European Pyjama Parties. Add your missing dream #nighttrains and dance with us in night gear of your choice at selected stations this Friday evening: #nighttrainsforfuture
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120 participants** at #nighttrainconference !
More than 80 on-site and 40 on-line will come together next weekend to discuss the future of #nighttrains in #Europe. On-site registration is now closed due to capacity limits, but you may still join us via zoom. #nighttrainsforfuture #3percentovernight
But for 🇫🇷 (as for most other Memberstates) it's a novelty in long distance passenger Transport. The process itself is set to begin in early May 2026. Hopefully, it will not end up like the last 🇸🇪 Swedish tender for night train services to 🇳🇴 Narvik, which received 0 applications. 2/2
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DGITM , Ministry of Transport in 🇫🇷 is looking for a future operator for French #nighttrains. A market study has been launched for this purpose (see below). The commissioning of subsidised services with a competitive public service obligation is now a must in the 🇪🇺. #trainsdenuit 1/2
Join us in Berlin from 26-28 September for the Night Train Conference, focusing on the future of night trains and rail politics. Discover ways to improve and expand night trains. Free for members; non-members pay catering costs. Don’t miss this chance to join the discussion.
For the end of the day - Some good news after the bad ones:
✨🌜🚆🛏️ ✨ The Swiss government officially announced to support the planned #EuroNight #Basel🇨🇭- #Copenhagen🇩🇰 - #Malmö🇸🇪 with available funds of CHF 10 million/year. Three times a week in each direction from April 2026! 👉https://buff.ly/frMcamO
Bad news: ÖBB has amended its contract with Siemens Mobility for the delivery of new passenger coaches. This means that no further Nightjet trains will be ordered (for the time being) – 33 seven-coach units were planned, 24 of which have been delivered to date.
Link eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
📅 On 07/05, EU 🇪🇺Commission finally published its Guidelines on Track Access Charges. We urged recognition of #nighttrains as own segment.
✅ While regulatory change is still needed, the Guidelines now promote this and
✅ recommends to only charge direct cost for night trains.
A great step forward!
There is no confirmation, that there is none. The Koper branch was already missing in last years map, we missed to rectify that. Sorry for that, it's just volunteer work. We will update the online version.
One of the trains to which the through coach was attached was replaced by a self-propelled EMU (electric multiple unit). Without loco and coupling this connection wasn't technically feasible any more.
Here's our new #nighttrains map for 2025 - also available for mail order.
6 routes disappeared 😢 : Berlin-Bruxelles, Bratislava-Zvolen-Košice, Budapest-Cluj, Göteborg-Umeå, Stuttgart-Rijeka and Zürich-Linz-Praha. 1 new route (Praha-Gdynia) wasn't known in time to make it on the map.
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There is a little new night train line on our map:
Since mid-April the Baltic Express between the 🇨🇿 Czech capitol Praha and the 🇵🇱 Baltic Sea port of Gdynia will carry a sleeper coach!
🚄 🛌 🛌 🛌 #nighttrains #trainsnotplanes
Being a regular service it qualifies for our night train map but the booking limitation makes it a cruise train, disqualifying the service. What do you think should we add it? 4/4
According to the press release the train will offer 660 couchettes berths and feature a "wagon bar" (which some media translated as a restaurant car). Booking the train will however only be possible within a travel package. 3/4
The service will be run as Travelski Night Express in Cooperation with Pegasus Rail. Travelski is a brand of the establieshed travel operator Travel Factory who belong since 2018 to Compagnie des Alpes who run a couple of the connected resorts. Their partner Pegasus Rail was founded in 2024. 2/4
TravelFactory announced the return of a ⛷️ #Ski #nighttrain route between Paris and Aime, Moutiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice in the French Alps, connecting #LaPlagne, #LesArcs, #Tignes, #Méribel, #Vald’Isère, #LesMénuires, #ValThorens and #Courchevel weekly between 19/12 and 20/03. buff.ly/ka9d2JT 1/4
... on train and plane tickets were of lesser importance, but rather the other prerequisite for building the rolling stock needed to realise the climate potential of night trains.
Here is the new study:
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Our study from 2022:
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🧵 5/5 #levelplayingfield
Stakeholders present at the presentation confirmed the study in identifying the lack of a ‘go-everywhere’ standard for rolling stock as the main obstacle to train orders. However, the stakeholders disputed that lower track access charges and the alignment of VAT ... #trainsforeurope 🧵 4/5
But the study confirmed the emissions figure for night trains estimated by Back-on-Track. However, the overall potential was estimated to be lower, as the realisable distances were limited to 1,500 km and the cost of a 14-car train was estimated at €50 million. #3percentOverNight 🧵 3/5
Target was to assess the potential of night trains arriving in, departing from or passing through Germany, which was presented at the Ministry on 31 March. Unlike the Back-on-Track study, infrastructure emissions were included, which account for 21% of emissions in the German energy mix. 🧵 2/5
New study on the greenhouse gas reduction potential of night trains for Germany partly confirms Back-on-Track report: In response to the Back-on-Tracks 2022 assessment of the potential for Europe, the German Ministry of Transport has commissioned a study.
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In the meantime the Commission clarified to us the task wasn't skipped. (They just forgot to mention these pending proposals in the annex of pending proposals).
Yes, on passenger rights, see above. A new draft on single ticketing was announced for later this year.
COM(2023)753 final 2023/0437 (COD) 29.11.2023
COM(2023)752 final 2023/0436 (COD) 29.11.2023
