Here's our new
#nighttrains
map for 2024 including the new lines starting today. Anything missing? Any mistakes? Please note we don't include irregular car-only and cruise trains.
Swedish climate activist
@GretaThunberg
is now on her way to
#WEF2019
in Davos, Switzerland. Of course by train! Including the
#nightjet
of
@unsereOEBB
from Hamburg to Basel, it’s only 26 hours from
#Stockholm
to the alpine summits of Grisons. Trevlig resa, Greta! 👍
The
#Netherlands
🇳🇱 Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (
@KiM_IenW
) determines 8 promising routes for a Dutch
#nighttrain
: To Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Milan and Turin. They could attract 1 million passengers/year. More Info:
#Nachtzug
und
#Schweden
Freunde aufgemerkt: Im Sommer 2020 wird
#Sn
älltåget TÄGLICH auf der Strecke von
#Berlin
nach
#Malm
ö🇸🇪 unterwegs sein! Gegenüber 2019 wird die Anzahl der Fahrten damit um 150 Prozent gesteigert 🥳 🎉
Mehr Infos:
Planning for the 2024 issue of our night train map: Since many have asked us not to cut off the Iberian peninsula for its lack of night trains - how should we print? VERTICAL - maybe with night trains in North Africa or HORIZONTAL with the night trains to Asia? Poll below.
A night train between
#Sweden
🇸🇪 and
#Hamburg
🇩🇪 would be a game changer for Northern Europe! Hope that carriers will soon realise the great market potential of this relation (Servus,
@unsereOEBB
👋)
Hallo Schweden-Freunde,
#Sn
älltåget wird seinen
#Nachtzug
Berlin-Malmö auch an drei Terminen im Herbst anbieten – und bis
#Stockholm
🇸🇪 verlängern!
🗓 Berlin-Stockholm: 30.9./11.11./9.12.
🗓 Stockholm-Berlin: 26.9./7.11./5.12.
Mehr Infos:
To get more long-distance
#nighttrains
Europe should prepare its network for higher average speeds. A new study funded by the German Environmental Agency (UBA) suggests to focus on these 9 core lines (partly following the TEN-T network of main lines):
Europeans want to travel more sustainably, but trains are currently too expensive compared to air travel.
Prices for night trains could drop by 15% with two small policy adjustments. 🧵(1/6)
New study by
@transenv
and
@BackOnTrackEU
➡️
What does the new ÖBB
#Nightjet
bring for passengers &
#shift2rail
, how does it sleep in a
#MiniCabin
- and a seating carriage with everything except rubbish bins: Our in-depth analysis & lots of extra info on the first new
#sleeper
coaches in 30 years.
🎉🎉🎉 A new night train starts in March 2021 ! 👏
It will connect 🇩🇪Berlin and 🇩🇪Hambourg to 🇩🇰Copenhagen and 🇸🇪Malmö, and all the way to 🇸🇪Stockholm ! 😍
Tickets are already available 👇
“Europe needs more night trains instead of bigger airports” says Austian
@VCOE_AT
, a public-benefit organisation for mobility and transport. We could not agree more! 👍
Viele
#Fl
üge sind in
#Bahn
-Distanz.
#Klimawandel
ist nur mit weniger Flugverkehr zu bremsen.
#Europa
braucht mehr schnelle Bahnverbindungen und mehr
#Nachtzug
-Angebot statt den Ausbau von Flughäfen.
Good news from Italy: The tender for new night train wagons for
@Trenitalia
has finally been awarded and a first order has been placed for 70 wagons to be delivered by June 2026. The wagons have a low price - but also a low capacity.
It was reported the Portugese government considers buying old Trenhotel stock to revive the night train Lisbon-Hendaye, technically it wold be possible to go all the way at least to Bordeaux.Maybe they need a bit of support to really do it.
@BackOnTrackEU
I see that Portugal is totally left out. :( There would be a great way to reach Porto and Lisbon from Paris (or even further) via Bordeaux and Bilbao. High-speed lines are going as far as Bordeaux, then many old tracks. But that might be okay for a slow-moving night train.
Trenitalia is reporterd to plan extending its high speed service by 2026 to Munich and possibly Berlin - encouraged by the "very good market response" to the new night trains. Why not more night trains then?
Die #ÖBB sagt, weitere NightJet-Verbindungen, auch ins
#VBBLand
, seien machbar. Dafür seien allerdings andere politische Rahmenbedingungen nötig: staatl. Unterstützung, Umsatzsteuer, Trassen, Autotransport etc.
("Rail Business" Nr. 44/18)
@erp_news
/ea
Train cheaper than plane - when comparing the price of a flight including a night in a hotel / private accommodation with a night train ride in an couchette for a family or party of four.
Wir verbinden ganz Europa - Tag und Nacht 🇪🇺 Und wir hören nicht auf damit! Denn Österreich ist zwar unsere Wurzel, aber sicher nicht unsere Grenze! #ÖBBilanz2018
Happy new year everyone! Of course we start 2019 with a new
#NightTrainOfTheWeek
: The sleeper train from
#Munich
🇩🇪 to
#Rome
🇮🇹 is another great
#Nightjet
service of Austrian
@unsereOEBB
. Certainly the most civilised way to travel to the Eternal City!
Ukrainian transportation minister Volodymyr Omelyan announces Kyiv - Berlin train service for this year, as well as a direct Mukachevo - Kosice train service.
UZ CEO Kravzov confirmed these plans, according to the article.
@seatsixtyone
@TrainTracksEU
@MykolaZasiadko
Great meeting today in European Parliament :
"How to fly less and shift to environmentally friendly alternatives"
-> Lots of interesting proposals to reduce aviation and develop night trains !
with
@LucyAndersonMEP
and
@MollyMEP
More
#nightjet
news: The Hamburg-Zürich train will stop in
#Bremen
🇩🇪 from December. This means that 2.7 million people in the German metropolitan region “Northwest” will finally be connected to the
#nighttrain
! Well done,
@unsereOEBB
👍
Paukenschlag! Der
#Nightjet
Hamburg-Zürich fährt ab
#Fahrplanwechsel
über Bremen statt über Lüneburg und bietet damit viel mehr Menschen die Möglichkeit einer bequemen Reise im
#Schlafwagen
. Überzeugt euch selbst:
476 kilometers, 254 tunnels, 243 bridges – this is our recent
#NightTrainOfTheWeek
from
#Belgrade
🇷🇸 to
#Bar
🇲🇪 in numbers. Truely a “must ride” when visiting the
#Balkans
! And even though it’s a
#nighttrain
, you’ll see a lot of the breathtaking scenery if you travel in summer.
C’est le retour du train de nuit
#ParisAurillac
Parti ce soir à 19:27 de Paris-Austerlitz, arrivera demain matin 7:30 à Aurillac.
Je vous raconte ma nuit demain dans
@PremiereEdition
@BFMTV
J’ai demandé à
@CBeaune
si ceux qui réclament des trains de nuit les prennent vraiment…
Mockups for the new IC notte order: 44 🛏️couchettes w/o sitting option (
#1963
arrives 16:55 in Palermo), 22 🛌sleepers (is that a folding double bed?😍) and 4 seaters (approx. 66 reclining seats) for €138.59M (€1,98M avg./coach). A good deal?
Škoda Group joins frame agreement for 370 new intercity night coaches in Italy! We teamed up with TITAGARH FIREMA S.P.A. in Temporary Grouping of Companies, established by
@LeFrecce
, to design and build the coaches as the most advantageous solution in the European tender.
Ladies and gentlemen, is this Europe’s most civilised railway? Take note, everyone else, although bear in mind that the wider (Russian) railway gauge gives VR trains a lot more interior space. Firstly, in the single deck space between carriages, 2 and 4 seat private compartments.
Connections from Central Europe to
#Denmark
🇩🇰 and
#Sweden
🇸🇪 will see massive improvements with the timetable change in December. Travel time from
#Hamburg
🇩🇪 to
#Copenhagen
🇩🇰 reduces to 4:40 h, which enables a fantastic new connection to
#Stockholm
🇸🇪 🥳
Auch wenn der Abschied von der
#Vogelfluglinie
schmerzt: Die Situation zwischen
#Hamburg
🇩🇪 und
#Kopenhagen
🇩🇰 wird sich im
#Fahrplan2020
deutlich verbessern! Die Direktzüge sind nicht nur 18 Minuten schneller, es gibt auch eine tolle neue Umsteigeverbindung nach
#Stockholm
🇸🇪!
42.000 people signed for better
#nighttrain
connections to
#Denmark
🇩🇰,
#Sweden
🇸🇪 and
#Norway
🇳🇴. Today our member Poul and his colleagues handed the signatures to the Danish Parliament
Die bulgarische
#BDZ
🇧🇬 hat ihre Schlafwagen neu ausgestettet – und zwar in Zusammenarbeit mit IKEA! Die bunten Waggons kommen ab sofort im
#Nachtzug
zwischen
#Sofia
🇧🇬 und dem Schwarzen Meer zum Einsatz:
Soon we will have our next meeting in
#Hamburg
🇩🇪. You are interested in the future of the
#nighttrain
? Then come to our public discussion on October 18! 🚞🛌 More info:
#ConnectingEurope
by train:
📢These new 🇪🇺pilot services will improve cross-border rail across the EU!
👉10 projects for new & better 🚄connections
👉By day & by night 🌜
Find the full list here:
Trafikverket: Malmö-Cologne likely to be the first new international night train route to be tendered. Traffic start possible as early as 2022-2023, but operator will need to provide the rolling stock. Final report due 31 April 2020. 🇸🇪🇩🇪
FABULOUS NEWS! Great Britain to remain in Interrail & Eurail schemes. This has really made my day. Hats off to RDG & National Rail operators for listening - many, many people young and old will appreciate this for years to come.
🆕🇦🇹 Now,
@unsereOEBB
🇦🇹 is increasing the pace to establish its
#Nightjet
-service and is looking for renting some sleeping- & couchette-carriages with a license to operate in Czechia🇨🇿, Belgium🇧🇪, Denmark🇩🇰 & Sweden🇸🇪, as they handed in a tender at the EU TED Portal. 👍
Hungarian
#M
ÁV 🇭🇺 to introduce refurbished sleepers and couchettes in EuroNight trains “Kálmán Imre” to
#Munich
🇩🇪 and “Wiener Walzer” to
#Z
ürich 🇨🇭👍
Die ungarische Eisenbahn MÁV-START hat ihre
#Nachtzug
-Flotte aufgemöbelt. Die ersten renovierten Wagen werden in den nächsten Tagen im "Kálmán Imre" Budapest-München und dem "Wiener Walzer" Budapest-Zürich eingesetzt (Foto: MÁV-START)
Out of 24 hours, president Biden spent 20 on the train (both directions), and only 4 in Kyiv. That's why it was important for us to care about him in a proper way. And we did.
You think you’ve seen everything related to the romantic of
#train
travel before? Then look at this breathtaking video of a
#nighttrain
in
#Finland
🇫🇮...! 😱😍
The 2019 rail timetable is around the corner! „There is surprisingly much good news for the
#nighttrain
in Europe“ says our member Sebastian from
@TrainTracksEU
in this ultimate review (in German, but you’ll get the point)
“We agree that there are exciting perspectives to reintroduce night trains from Denmark to other European countries” says Danish Railways
@omDSB
to 42.000 Northern Europeans, who want their
#nighttrain
back:
We fight for better cross-border rail travel in
#Europe
. Therefore we really appreciate the efforts of
@unsereOEBB
to invent new connections from Austria to
#Berlin
🇩🇪,
#Krak
ów 🇵🇱,
#Ko
šice 🇸🇰 and
#Cluj
🇷🇴 from the timetable change in December 💪
#FahrplanNEU
Zusammengefasst: Wir fahren in der Nacht und am Tag direkt nach Berlin. Neu ist auch die Railjet-Verbindung nach Bratislava. Und der Osten Europas rückt mit den Direktverbindung nach Krakau/Kraków, Košice und Cluj noch ein Stückchen näher an uns ran 😍
#FahrplanNEU
Wichtige Nachricht für alle
#Nachtzug
-Freunde: Der "Lisinski" von München nach
#Zagreb
🇭🇷 lässt sich nun auch nach dem 9. Dezember bei den
@unsereOEBB
buchen! Damit dürfte der Fortbestand des Zuges vorerst gesichert sein 🎉👍
Another new
#nighttrain
to start 10.12.2023: Bratislava 20:00 - Hummené 08:50 and back 20:30 - 06:20 operated by Yosaria Trains, apparently using old CNL material which they tested positive for refurbishment. So, there is still old
#rollingstock
around.
#Trenhotels
, anyone?
Eine gute Nachricht für Nachtzugfreunde😏
Heute wurden 18 ex-DB Schlafwagen der Bauarten 171 und 172 aus Mukran abgeholt. Erworben hat sie angeblich das slowakische EVU Yosaria Trains, das damit ab Dezember einen Nachtzug zwischen Bratislava und Humenné betreiben möchte.
Good night everyone 🌃, today I have some
#NightJet
content for you! I just entered
#NJ40490
from
#Vienna
🇦🇹 to
#Frankfurt
🇩🇪. It is a
#nighttrain
with good length of 12 cars and it seems to be (nearly) fully booked, the WL for sure 😊!
@TrainTracksEU
...das wäre nun mein Gedankenüberschuss des Tages zum Thema.
Einmal ein Berlin-Y, einmal ein Skandinavien-Stern (ist je doch kein Dreieck). Das eine 14h-symmetrisch, das andere 15h-symmetrisch.
Did you know that there’s a
#nighttrain
in Bosnia-Herzegovina? The connection from
#Sarajevo
🇧🇦 to
#Biha
ć🇧🇦 was introduced in 2018. Now it has turned out: The
#sleeper
can really be used and offers good comfort with en-suite shower and toilet! 🚞 🛌
🔊Achtung, hier kommt der Beweis: Der
#Nachtzug
zwischen
#Sarajevo
🇧🇦 und
#Biha
ć🇧🇦 HAT einen Schlafwagen, der auch als solcher betrieben wird und sich buchen lässt! Bericht und mehr Fotos hier: (Bild: Drehscheibe Online)
22:10 Bratislava to Prague
#EuroNight
476 operated by #ČeskéDráhy we had a 2 bed sleeper with washbasin / shower & toilet at the end of the carriage
This train is special as it waits in Breclav for 6 hours, continuing the next day attached to a IC train - excellent sleep 🛏💤
So... drei Wochen subtile Gehirnwäschen zu Berlin in unserer Timeline sollten ausreichend sein. Wenn ihr jetzt euren Trip plant und nach reiflicher Überlegung immer wieder beim
#nightjet
landet, dann haben wir alles richtig gemacht 😏 Das war's jetzt aber vorerst mit
#WienxBerlin
Good news : 2021 will be the "European Year of Rail" ! 👏
➡️ A perfect occasion to reconnect Europe with a new nework of night trains ! 🌙🚊🇪🇺
#EUYearofRail
🎉BIG NEWS for 2021:
@EUCouncil
&
@Europarl_EN
just reached a political agreement on
#EUYearofRail
!
🚊Time to get ready for next year, to put rail as one of our most sustainable, innovative & safest transport modes in the spotlight!
#EU2020DE
The revised TEN-T map, as concluded in yesterdays 🇪🇺Council session: A major network extension to Norrland and West Balcans, 🇺🇦 & 🇲🇩, now connecting major ports. Some popular
#nighttrain
destinations are however missing: 🇭🇷Split, 🇮🇹Lecce, 🇺🇦Charkiv,...
Save the date! On Dec 9 and 10, we will celebrate the first departure (18:40) and arrival (9:16) of the
#nighttrain
to/from
#Vienna
,
#Budapest
and
#Przemy
śl at Berlin main station. Similar events are planned for Vienna (dep 22:10, arr 7:00). More info coming soon!
#WelcomeBack
You want to celebrate the first departure of our
#NightTrainOfTheWeek
with us? 🎉 Then come on Sunday (9.12.) to
#Berlin
main station! We meet at 18:00 on the middle floor. More info: Welcome events also planned in
#Vienna
,
#Wroc
ław and Frankfurt (Oder).
We are currently preparing for our next physical meeting in
#Hamburg
🇩🇪 from October 18th to 20th. Find our great programme here: Hope to see many of you there!
In summer there is a great way to travel from
#Berlin
🇩🇪 to
#Sweden
🇸🇪: With the
#nighttrain
of the private operator
#Sn
älltåget! And yes, on the way the complete train goas on a ferry 🥰🚞🚢