night trains

Already working with some 250 rail operators, Rail Europe continues to expand its range of companies available for booking in B2C and B2B. After BritRail in March and then the night train operator European Sleeper, the distribution platform has just integrated Leo Express. The arrival of the Czech company allows it to strengthen its offer of...

Once there were night trains, now there are the first night coaches. Launched by a Swiss company, Twiliner, the first line will start operating on 14 November. It will link Amsterdam to Zurich via Brussels and Luxembourg before a Zurich-Barcelona route is launched. A new era in overnight coach travel is taking shape...

The long-awaited project for a direct rail link between Lisbon and Madrid took a major step forward on 30 October with the signing of an agreement involving the Portuguese and Spanish governments and the European Commission. The service will initially take 5 hours by conventional train between Lisbon and Madrid by 2030, a time that will be reduced...

Launched with great fanfare on 11 December 2023 at Paris-Est station in the presence of then Transport Minister Clément Beaune, the Paris-Berlin night train and its Paris-Vienna counterpart will cease services on 14 December when SNCF launches its winter service. Supported by the French government, which...

In the first half of 2025, 1.41 million people travelled on SBB trains every day, 4.8% more than in the same period of the previous year. This is an all-time record. Another reason for satisfaction: 94.5% of trains were punctual. That's an increase of 0.7 points on the same period last year...

Finnish railways VR are continuing to improve their network with the launch of a Pendolino Plus rail service between Helsinki and the city of Turku in the west of the country. Tickets are already on sale and available on the VR Matkalla application or at www.vr.fi. The Pendolino Plus VR train will start operating between Helsinki...

"The figures are satisfactory in a context marked by an economic slowdown and, above all, record flooding at the end of last year in Austria". ÖBB CEO Andreas Matthä was generally satisfied when he announced the Austrian rail company's annual results. In fact, the number of passengers has risen by...

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has recently noticed a deterioration in punctuality due to major construction work in France and Germany. As a result, the company, which runs the 'Nightjets' service, has decided to temporarily suspend certain routes from 12 August to 27 October...

With Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) 'Nightjet' night trains already criss-crossing Europe, it's no surprise that Vienna is emerging as the capital of night trains. According to a study by the Austrian Transport Club, VCÖ (Verkehrsclub Österreich), which advocates better overland mobility, Vienna benefits in terms of...

Setting up a railway company from scratch in France is an obstacle course. Following the liquidation of Railcoop in March, it is now the turn of the start-up Midnight Trains to call it a day. Launched in 2020 by three partners, its ambition was to create a higher-quality night train service, a veritable hotel on rails, with cabins...

How do you explain the fact that the night train has become the "star" of the year 2023? Amandine Thomas Commin - The revival of the night train is attracting a great deal of media coverage and interest from passengers, associations, the press and influencers... After a decade of virtual disappearance, the...

This Tuesday morning, just before 10.45am, the first night train from Berlin arrived at Gare de l'Est in Paris after a ten-year interruption, only fifteen minutes late. This new Nightjet train, operated by Austrian Railways (ÖBB) in partnership with SNCF, is...

On 20 October, Andreas Matthä, CEO of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), presented the group's 2024 rail link programme. The programme officially begins on 10 December. "The ÖBB is one of Europe's forerunners in night-time services, and we are going to continue to develop this leading position. In terms of...

It's now official. Almost 10 years after it was cancelled, the Paris-Berlin night train will be back in service this December, thanks to an initiative by the Austrian company ÖBB, which already operates several night trains in Europe, its famous "Nightjet" services such as Paris-Vienna and Brussels-Vienna. The first service will leave Berlin on December 11 and Paris on...

SNCF has decided to review the Intercités night train services between Paris and south-west France. Announced on 24 May at a rail services monitoring committee meeting, this measure concerns the night trains known as "Le Pyrénéen" and "L'Occitan", the latter incorporating the new Paris-Aurillac-Paris.... night service.

On 18 December 2021, Trenitalia's Frecciarossa trains set out to conquer the French rail network. On Wednesday, the management of the Italian carrier was keen to celebrate this first anniversary, and to take stock of these twelve months of operation. "One year on, it's a winning bet for passengers, and for...

By the end of 2025, 33 new-generation ÖBB Nightjets will be on the rails, linking European cities by night at speeds of up to 230 km/h. The first trains are due to enter service from late summer 2023 on the most popular routes between Austria, Germany and Italy. Before reaching...

2021 has been a particularly eventful year for ÖBB's Nightjet night train product. Coupled with the European Union's "Year of Rail Transport", the Nightjet network was a real hit with the public. The ÖBB has in fact inaugurated four new Nightjet lines in 2021. Since then...

On Sunday evening, despite the damp, cold weather, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, and Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, travelled to Gare d'Austerlitz to celebrate the relaunch of night trains with the first departure of the Paris-Briançon at 20:52 and the Paris-Tarbes-Lourdes an hour later. The return of this rail service...

"Everyone said that the night train would never set off again and that it wouldn't be full. It is full, with low fares and a huge popular success. I think this marks the start of a period of success for these safe, affordable trains, which allow people to travel differently, saving a night for...