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We are campaigning for more, better, affordable, long-distance and cross-border #nighttrains in Europe. Join us! 🚄🛌🛌🛌 🇪🇺

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In July the Trafikverket announced that SJ will resume the direct nighttrain Stockholm 🇸🇪 -Narvik 🇳🇴 from December. While other connections can now be booked even for January, only this train was excluded. Meanwhile SJ announced to add it later. Keep fingers crossed! www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

svt.seKlart med nattågen till övre Norrland – inför bytesfria resorTrafikverket meddelar att SJ tilldelas uppdraget att driva nattågstrafiken från Stockholm till övre Norrland de kommande två åren. Samtidigt meddelar myndigheten att man återinför bytesfria resor i…
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This Tuesday at #Innotrans we opened our #nighttrain target network planning tool to the public, and within just 4 days we received more than 1,000 proposals for new night train routes, some dreams, some gems. 🫶 Thanks to all volunteers for joining our booth team 🚄 🛌 🛏️🛏️

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🚆🕺 One night, many platforms, and a big push for smarter transporation! Last Sunday we co-hosted a Pyjama Protest Party with Stay Grounded. People showed up at their local train stations across 17+ cities across Europe and Africa. Why?

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🚝🤝 Meet us at InnoTrans! We're excited to learn more about how what is happening at the forefront of the rail transportation — and also to launch a new tool our team has been working on. More details coming soon. You can find members our team and our booth with our friends at Luna Rail.

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💭🗺️ Could we be seeing the Scottish Caledonian Sleeper in mainland Europe soon? Earlier this month, Transport Scotland announced they are developing a feasibility study with Scottish Rail Holdings Limited and Caledonian Sleeper. The findings will be reported later this year. What do you think?

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🆕📣 We're happy to welcome new night train connection! Just last week, Leo Express launched its new line connecting Frankfurt am Main to Przemyśl, close to the Ukrainian border, via Erfurt, Dresden, Praha, Ostrava, Kraków and Rzeszów. Who's taken it? Let us know! Photo credit: Leo Express

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BTW: Aircraft contrails heat up 🇪🇺 14.6× more than the global avg. And night contrails 2.5× more than daytime (Teoh et al. 2024). Contrails make up 57% of aviation's total heating effect – likely even more over Europe's busy skies. More night trains = less of the most damaging emissions. 🌙🚂

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Nox did it: The 🇩🇪/🇫🇷 startup convinced major investors of plans to offer single/double-cabin #nighttrains in refurbed coaches. The 2M€ pre-seed investment nearly doubles prior pre-seed investments (1.1M for Midnight Trains) allowing NoxMobility to continue operations and to build a 1st prototype.

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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. www.politico.eu/article/why-...

politico.euWhy Europe’s night-train renaissance derailedAging carriages, high costs and reluctant incumbents choked off the night-train revival — even as passengers clamor for more.
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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

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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 buff.ly/jdkFV4q

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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. 🚆💔

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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 buff.ly/GsZnaOY

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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

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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

buff.lyAvis de sourçage relatif à la fourniture de services de transport ferroviaire de voyageurs sur les lignes de nuitVeille sur les appels d'offres des marchés publics et privés, tous les marchés publics de France sur un seul site web. Presse, BOAMP, JOUE, Alertes emails quotidiennes
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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 buff.ly/CVmsKBM

buff.lyAvis de sourçage relatif à la fourniture de services de transport ferroviaire de voyageurs sur les lignes de nuitVeille sur les appels d'offres des marchés publics et privés, tous les marchés publics de France sur un seul site web. Presse, BOAMP, JOUE, Alertes emails quotidiennes
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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.

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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

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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.

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📅 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!

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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. buff.ly/kldBHmV

buff.lyNight Train Map 2025About us How to Book How we get more night trains Our map of all regular night trains in Europe Have you ever wondered to which destinations yo
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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

buff.lyNew Night Train from Prague to the Baltic SeaAs a trial, PKP Intercity add a sleeper to the newly inaugurated Baltic Express Since April 14th, the new night connection on the Baltic Express route betwee
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. #nighttrains 🧵 1/5

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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

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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. #nighttrains 🧵 1/5

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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

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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

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in July 24 #VonderLeyen promised European citizens to make cross-border train tickets with full passenger rights possible again, in November #Tzitzikostas announced to deliver such a regulation in 2025. Short lived & skipped in the Commissions 2025 work plan. Time to act:

buff.lyA broken promise is a very bad start.A more remote vision: cross-European train tickets avialable at any station (Photomontage, based on CC-BY-NC original from Bas Bogers/Flickr) In her working
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Launch event of Back on Track Italy 🇮🇹 in Venezia (on the occasion of the first trip of the seasonal European Sleeper from Bruxelles/Brussel to Venezia) will be streamed on LINKEDIN: lnkd.in/dWtU75ry Join in ! #nighttrain #nachttrein #treninotturni #traindenuit

lnkd.inBack-on-Track Italy - Talk: Sustainable Mobility in Europe and Night Trains | LinkedInEvent organised by BoT-Italy with the support of https://www.linkedin.com/company/back-on-track-eu/ Live stream of the Event in Venice Agenda: Back-on-Track Italy - What is Night Train Activism? Ac...
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Belgium 🇧🇪 finally has a new government and that the coalition agreement mentions the role of #nighttrains is good news. But how to achieve more of these remains unclear, as our Belgium group explains: www.backontrackbelgiumvzwasbl.be/post/le-nouv...

backontrackbelgiumvzwasbl.beLe nouveau gouvernement fédéral reconnaît le rôle du train de nuit, mais comment le concrétiser ?Nous avons enfin retrouvé un gouvernement fédéral. Et oui ! L'accord de coalition contient un passage sur les trains internationaux. Ce n'est pas grand-chose, mais il y a quand même quelques lignes, et les trains de nuit y sont explicitement mentionnés. We citeren:- Nous encourageons la coopération européenne dans le domaine du transport ferroviaire afin de multiplier et d’améliorer les liaisons ferroviaires européennes, tant au niveau du transport de marchandises que de personnes. Nous plaidon
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C‘est fait! Today at a notary‘s office in Brugge🇧🇪 we finally signed the French-language deed establishing Back-on-Track Europe AISBL as an international non-profit association - to be better represented at EU level. For practical reasons founding groups were 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇭&🇬🇧 others follow soon.