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-...

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

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

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. 🚆💔

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

📅 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!

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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...

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.

Last week we announced 2 new #nighttrain connections, however the #BalticExpress from Praha to Gdynia will presumably start as a daytrain due to a lack of certified rolling stock. 1/2 https://buff.ly/4fYZ1uF

Here is an overview of the changes to the #nighttrains network that we are aware of. Recently we took two steps forward, now we are taking another step back. Please let us know if we have forgotten anything. Please note that we do not cover occasional services and cruise trains.🧵

Not new … but up again:

On 25th Oct we joined forces with other groups in @staygrounded to have a trans-european pyjama party demanding more #nighttrains in 11 🇪🇺 cities simultaneously. Now the party people in 🇫🇷 Nantes made this great video capturing the 🎧 silent disco vibe: Watch and enjoy!

As we are in the process of proposing a target network for 2030. What do you think: Can we seriously include #nighttrains to Tallinn?

With regard to #nighttrains the EP hearing of the Commission's transport candidate Tzitzokostas was rather disappointing. Not more than the vague target of connecting Europe's cities "also by night train". But other rail issues like ticketing, ETCS and TEN-T seem to get more weight - which is good.

Together with Stay Grounded, Flight Free UK, ATERRA & Alternatiba, we hosted the worlds first silent disco demanding more night train connections! We danced in: 🇪🇸 Barcelona, 🇩🇪 Berlin, 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, 🇩🇪 Erfurt, 🇩🇪 Hamburg, 🇵🇹 Lisbon, 🇬🇧 London, 🇫🇷 Nantes, 🇩🇪 Stuttgart & 🇨🇭Zurich

The earlier the EU introduces a fossil jetfuel tax on flights within the EU the earlier we'll get a newtwork of hashtag#nighttrains. So please share - to stop the Hungarian EU presidency delaying the tax for another ten years.

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Short-term track works and a lack of international coordination led to the complete cancellation of several #nighttrains this year. The EU wants to remedy this - but how? Take part in our live discussion with @MetzTilly and others. back-on-track.eu/where-are-we...

Short-term track works and a lack of international coordination led to the complete cancellation of several #nighttrains this year. The EU wants to remedy this - but how? Take part in our live discussion with @MetzTilly and others....

Already making plans for Friday 25 Oct 2024, 20:30 CET? Join the cross-continental silent disco #pyjamaparty to draw attention to the missing #nighttrains, together with other groups on @StayGroundedNet: https://back-on-track.eu/trans-europe-pyjama-party-2024/#pyjamaparty#nighttrains@MenosAvioes...

🇸🇪 night train operator SJ announced to cancel all night train connections to and from Göteborg, serving up to 800 pax/day. Read about the background and support the petition to include Gothenburg in the procurement of night trains. #nattag...

European Sleeper now officially announced its second line from Brussels🇧🇪 to 🥁🥁🥁 Venice 🇮🇹! Twice a week from 2025-02-05 until March.

Now upgraded to a promise in the EU Commission President's application speech: "We will propose a Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation, to ensure that Europeans can buy one single ticket on one single platform and get passengers’ rights for their whole trip."

Cześć! 🌍🚆 Szukamy polskojęzycznych przyjaciół zrównoważonego podróżowania, którzy wesprą nas podczas polskiej prezydencji w Radzie UE w 2025 r. w rozbudowie europejskiej sieci pociągów nocnych. Kto do nas dołączy? 🙌💚 https://dir.lat/4AmYec #ZrównoważonePodróże #PociągiNocne

Our condolences to the families of the four dead and best wishes to the many injured in the @RegioJet #nighttrain which collided head-on with a goods train at the newly built #Pardubice 🇨🇿 station tonight. Reasons are yet unknown.

Hallo Nederlanders! We willen op 28 mei een Nederlandse Back-on-Track groep oprichten - voor meer #nachttreinen 🚄🛌🛌🛌🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️ tussen 🇳🇱 en heel 🇪🇺. Meld je aan als je mee wilt doen: https://dir.lat/Ey7Vjd#nachttreinen #nighttrains #3percentOverNight

🍾 We did it. On Monday we transformed ourselves into Back-on-Track Europe a.i.s.b.l., an international non-profit under Belgian law in order to gain more influence on EU 🇪🇺 institutions (partly requiring legal status). Thanks to our donors from 14 countries who supported this!

Last week the EU transport ministers meeting concluded to make night trains a viable alternative to short- and medium haul flights. Here is our comprehensive action plan how to do it - unanimously concluded by our groups from nine European countries: https://buff.ly/3vU7PjF

Help us to register as a non-profit association in Belgium! We need to raise 600€ more. Then we can officially take part in meetings at the EU level - key to changing policy around night trains, and making them more affordable. Share & donate now! https://buff.ly/4aLFLxY

A nice update for our #nighttrains map and database (https://dir.lat/WSKRTr#nighttrainsLast week two routes were extended to each connect one more country @EuropeanSlpr now connecting 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇩🇪 with 🇨🇿 and RegioJet connecting 🇨🇿🇸🇰 with 🇺🇦. Photos: @jurim (ES) @GlobalUARailTF (RJ)

#Nighttrains 🚂🛌🛏️🛏️🛏️ operator @EuropeanSlpr 🇳🇱🇧🇪 is sueing Deutsche Bahn 🇩🇪 to make them sell their tickets on http://bahn.de. DB already sells nightjets 🇦🇹 but refused cooperation with ES: https://buff.ly/4aaql6n

EP report proposes better planning rules for #nighttrains: More time for booking ahead, guaranteed slots for up to 3 years and considering social benefit when competing for capacity. Let's hope Council can help pushing this https://buff.ly/3PtmRUa#nighttrains@GeorgesGilkinet @EU2024BE

„Europe doesn’t track.“ Great feature on the pains of cross-border day & night trains in Europe by Dutch TV. Watch one of our actions at the inauguration of the Berlin-Paris nightjet in the first minute. #nighttrains #trainsNotPlanes...

For a change some good news for rail in Germany: ✈️ airport charges will be raised by 19% in May 2024. This might increase plane ticket prices by ~4%. „Things are different in other parts of Europe“ complains Ryanair....

Here's our new #nighttrains map for 2024 including the new lines starting now. Anything missing? Any mistakes? (Please note we don't include irregular car-only and cruise trains.) PDF version here: www.back-on-track.eu/night-train-...

Here's our new #nighttrains map for 2024 including the new lines starting today. Anything missing? Any mistakes? Please note we don't include irregular car-only and cruise trains.

To get more long-distance #nighttrains Europe should prepare its network for higher average speeds. A new study funded by the German Environmental Agency (UBA) suggests to focus on these 9 core lines (partly following the TEN-T network of main lines): https://buff.ly/3TeKgvj

Some people have asked us why Back-on-Track is missing as a co-signatory of the open letter calling on the EU Commission to present a strategy for night trains. Good question! Here is the reason. https://buff.ly/3Nfurk7

Ukrainian Railways improves international night&day connections to the West with a new #nighttrain connection from Київ/Kyiv to Чоп/Chop 🇺🇦🇸🇰🇭🇺 optimised for connectivity to a daytrain to Vienna 🇦🇹adding to the existing direct service! Добраніч - Jó reggelt - Servus!