Topic: Night trains

Night time picture of Caledonian Sleeper coach being delivered by road on a huge trailer

Irish railway project takes Scottish sleeper cars

The rolling stock formely used for the Caledonian Sleeper, the overnight service between London and Scotland, has found a new home. In an exciting development for railway enthusiasts, the Connemara Railway Project has taken delivery...Read more

03-05-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Renfe dusts off luxury night trains for new season

Renfe will this week restart its luxury night train services with the return of the Al Ándalus and the resumption of the Transcantábrico Gran Lujo, which is now in its 40th year. Next month, the...Read more

06-04-2023|Comment|author: Nick Augusteijn

visualisation of new Škoda-built night train cabin

Night train tickets to Finnish ski resorts in demand (and tax-free)

Finland’s national operator VR is seeing a big demand for night train services to the country’s major ski resorts. Demand is partly fuelled by the fact that tickets are tax-free until the end of April....Read more

14-02-2023|Comment|author: Nick Augusteijn

EU to back new cross-border pilots by European Sleeper, SJ, Eurostar, among others

The European Commission will support 10 pilot project for new cross-border services and the improvement of existing ones, it announced on Tuesday. Among the proposals selected are those by night train startup European Sleeper, the...Read more

31-01-2023|1 comment|author: Nick Augusteijn

New operators and the difficulties to obtain rolling stock

OpinionThe European Sleeper night train service should finally start in 2023. The Dutch company is close to securing sufficient suitable rolling stock. This brings us to an observation about the sector.Read more

23-12-2022|Comment|author: Frédéric de Kemmeter