night trains

"European Sleeper, a cooperative rail company formed by Dutch investors, is to work with the Czech private company RegioJet to launch a new night train service. It would compete in part with the "Nightjet" network of the Austrian Federal Railways. The future line would run from Brussels to Prague, stopping between...

60 years ago, they were the pride of Europe. From the end of the 50s to the very beginning of the 80s, TEE (Trans-Europ-Express) trains criss-crossed Europe, a true symbol of night service, luxury and comfort. Some of you may still remember the Mistral on the Paris-Nice line or the Capitole on the Paris-Toulouse line. The...

Ecological awareness and the Covid-19 crisis have had at least one positive effect on Europe's railways: the return of night trains. A fine revenge for a mode of transport that seemed doomed 20 years ago. The SNCF in France, the FS in Italy...

The Nightjet service, inaugurated in December 2016, continues to expand. The night service operated by ÖBB, Oesterreischiche Bundesbahn (Austrian Federal Railways), is proving to be a real success story for the company, one that is underpinned in particular by Europeans' growing awareness of their environment. According to the OBB, its network of night trains in Europe has...