Midnight Trains drops plans for Edinburgh to Paris sleeper
Plans have been put to sleep for a sleeper train to run all the way from Edinburgh to Paris. The French start-up company behind the ambitious plan says the hurdles of getting across The Channel have been giving them sleepless nights. In a radical rethink of their ambitions, the company has pulled out of proposals to connect Scotland with the Continent, in a way that has not been dreamt of since the still-born proposals for “Nightstar” – an overnight version of the Eurostar which would have made overnight connections between Edinburgh and Europe a reality by rail.
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The Edinburgh-Paris train was never going to be a runner, we all KNEW that as soon as it appeared on Midnight Train’s map.
It showed they had gone public before even doing a proper business plan – because had they done so, they would have realised it wasn’t commercially viable wth the higher access fees and UK/Channel Tunnel security/border costs added (as the stillborn London Sleeper Company did, years before) and would not have shown it.
I’m a bit puzzled by the comment that the Berlin to Paris route is a cooperation between SNCF and Deutsche Bahn.
Because it’s of course operated by ÖBB and other operations just resell the ÖBB tickets.
Which is a weird oversight by someone who should know what’s going on in the night train business.