New plans for night trains basically every week in Europe
Not a week seems to go by at the moment without new trans-Europe night train lines being studied or annonced.
There’s Luna Train between Frankfurt and Barcelona, via Lyon. Germany’s train company DB is continuing to be Europe’s laggard here, and it’s the French who’ve taken the lead on this one:
To get an idea of how much the German news media is lapping up this new train idea, here are a couple of links (translate using Chrome for example):
https://www.franziska-brantner.de/2021/02/17/nachtzug-frankfurt-barcelona-studie-vorgestellt/
Then there’s the private train operator Train4You who have announced their new summer night train UrlaubsExpress from Basel (in Switzerland) to Binz on the the island of Rugen:
Then there’s the private operator RDC with its Alpen-Sylt Night Express that’s going to run from Westerland (on the island of Sylt) all the way to Salzburg (Austria) or to Lake Constance starting in May!
Another private company Snälltåget is setting up a night train from Stockholm to Berlin via Hamburg from May to September:
Quoting Back on Track (the source of all this wonderful news):
“The train leaves Stockholm at 16:20 and arrives in Berlin at 8:52, on Sundays at 12:24. It also offers a night connection between Malmö (21:55) or Copenhagen (Høje Tåstrup 22:45) and Hamburg (5:31, Sundays 9:02).”
In theory, the Paris to Nice night train returns in May, modulo Covid-19 and the Paris to Tarbes train in December.
One can hope that all of these train operators will gradually see how awesome the new Austrian night trains coming off the production line are and be inspired to invest in similarly awesome new wagons:
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