‘Belgium’s approach to encouraging night trains should be emulated across Europe’
Belgian Minister of Mobility Georges Gilkinet on board of European Sleeper's train with founders Elmer van Buuren and Chris Engelsman ALLRAIL
The Belgian measure in which night train operators will pay nothing for track access fees and energy over the next two years should be adopted across Europe, says ALLRAIL, which represents new entrants in passenger rail. The organisation celebrates the launch of European Sleeper last week, the “first ever – independently owned – scheduled long-distance rail operator to depart from Belgium”.
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TGV from Brussels to Marseilles or Montpellier would also count as – though not independently owned – “scheduled long-distance rail to depart from Belgium”, maybe also ICE from Brussels to Frankfurt.
The “first ever – independently owned – scheduled long-distance rail operator to depart from Belgium” was “Mann’s Railway Sleeping Car Company Ltd. – Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits” from 1873 on the route Ostende to Cologne and Ostende to Berlin.