The authorisation for SJ to also use its EuroNight passenger coaches in Denmark is likely to arrive before the end of the year, the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) said in a reaction to RailTech.com...Read more
ÖBB and Siemens Mobility presented the next generation of Nightjet sleeping and couchette cars on Tuesday. The new rolling stock will be entered into service towards the end of the summer of 2023. By year-end 2025, 33...Read more
Istanbul welcomed the legendary Orient Express on Thursday. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, offered by travel company Belmond, runs once a year between Istanbul and Paris.Read more
Swedish operator SJ ran its first night train between Stockholm and Hamburg on late Thursday afternoon, albeit not without difficulties. A delay in the approval of carriages by Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority resulted in...Read more
Major German tourism business TUI on Tuesday announced the introduction of the TUI Ski Express in cooperation with GreenCityTrip. From December 23 onwards, new night train services will depart to Austrian ski resorts in Tirol...Read more
Talgo will be manufacturing seven new train sets for night services for Egyptian National Railways (ENR), the company announced last week. The order is valued at around 280 million euros.Read more
If operators of night train services focus on increased levels of comfort and more privacy for travellers, people will be more inclined to use sleeper trains, researchers from consultancy firm Royal HaskoningDHV and Delft University...Read more
Trains have long been associated with tourism and discovering a new country or travelling Europe. However, in the past decades mass tourism seems to have deserted one of the oldest modes of transport still in...Read more
ÖBB and Deutsche Bahn have unveiled the upgraded Nightjet couchette car in Hamburg this week. The coach is part of an upgrade programme that has already resulted in the conversion of 22 Nightjet couchette cars.Read more
The extension of the night train Paris-Lourdes to the Basque coast was launched by SNCF last Friday. The night train to Hendaye runs for two months this summer, until 28 August.Read more
If there is anyone who is experienced in taking the train, it is Thibault Constant. On his Youtube channel Simply Railway he reports on train trips across the world. Having spent more than 300 nights...Read more
Sun Tren’s Cappadocia Express, Turkey’s first private railway venture, will be using two Renfe trains for its planned sleeper service to the UNESCO world heritage site Cappadocia, the Spanish operator announced on Wednesday.Read more
With the European market increasingly opening up to private operators and with the comeback of night trains well underway, the availability of rolling stock has become a large obstacle, especially for open-access train operators. What...Read more
Difficulties in acquiring the necessary rolling stock is the main reason for the delay of the European Sleeper’s first night train service from Brussels to Prague, founder and CEO Elmer van Buuren said at RailTech...Read more
European Sleeper and travel provider Sunweb have teamed up for the rollout of new sleeper train services from the Netherlands to France. The first connections to French ski resorts are tentatively planned for the coming...Read more
