🆕📣 We're happy to welcome new night train connection! Just last week, Leo Express launched its new line connecting Frankfurt am Main to Przemyśl, close to the Ukrainian border, via Erfurt, Dresden, Praha, Ostrava, Kraków and Rzeszów. Who's taken it? Let us know! Photo credit: Leo Express

🚄🌙 The European Commission released its Passenger Package proposal. What do we think? Here is a summary of the five key improvements we suggested. Read the full report here: back-on-track.eu/passenger-pa... Kudos to our Advocacy Working group for leading this report!

The challenges of a night train startup, strategic hubs in their pipeline, their collaborative approach to competition, and the perks of vintage stock—we hear all this and more in an interview with Chris Engelsman, Co-Founder of European Sleeper. Read it here: back-on-track.eu/in-conversat...

BTW: Aircraft contrails heat up 🇪🇺 14.6× more than the global avg. And night contrails 2.5× more than daytime (Teoh et al. 2024). Contrails make up 57% of aviation's total heating effect – likely even more over Europe's busy skies. More night trains = less of the most damaging emissions. 🌙🚂

The summer travel season is almost here, and we’re proud to announce our updated, community-built, 2026 Night Train Map. 🚅 The results? Six lines added, 11 lines reduced, and one line shortened. More info: back-on-track.eu/all-night-tr... Big thanks to our volunteers!

RDC will operate the 🇸🇪Stockholm–🇩🇪 Berlin night train commercially from September, replacing SJ after subsidy cuts. Now out: The service will run 3️⃣ three times weekly during winter. www.nachtexpress.de/en/timetable/ #nighttrains #flygskam #tågskryt

Nox did it: The 🇩🇪/🇫🇷 startup convinced major investors of plans to offer single/double-cabin #nighttrains in refurbed coaches. The 2M€ pre-seed investment nearly doubles prior pre-seed investments (1.1M for Midnight Trains) allowing NoxMobility to continue operations and to build a 1st prototype.

Sweden’s long-awaited night train order is here—but with ageing rolling stock, the urgency is clear. What do you think about choosing Talgo? Explore the economic details: https://back-on-track.eu/seden-orders-talgo-nighttrains #NightTrains #Nattåg #SustainableTravel

Zukunftsstudie #Nachtsprung Zürich 2040 - frisch aus der digitalen Presse von Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz #Zürich + Zürich Tourismus (auf DE+EN).🌜🚆🛏️🚍🇨🇭🌍 👉 www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/aktuell/p... #Nachtzug #NightTrain #TrainDeNuit #TrenoNotturno #ZugStattFlug #CrossBorderRail @back-on-track.eu

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-...

Why Europe’s night-train renaissance derailed

Aging carriages, high costs and reluctant incumbents choked off the night-train revival — even as passengers clamor for more.

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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

Avis de sourçage relatif à la fourniture de services de transport ferroviaire de voyageurs sur les lignes de nuit

Veille sur les appels d'offres des marchés publics et privés, tous les marchés publics de France sur un seul site web. Presse, BOAMP, JOUE, Alertes emails quotidiennes

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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

Night Train Map 2025

About us How to Book How we get more night trains Our map of all regular night trains in Europe Have you ever wondered to which destinations yo

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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

New Night Train from Prague to the Baltic Sea

As a trial, PKP Intercity add a sleeper to the newly inaugurated Baltic Express Since April 14th, the new night connection on the Baltic Express route betwee

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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:

A broken promise is a very bad start.

A more remote vision: cross-European train tickets avialable at any station (Photomontage, based on CC-BY-NC original from Bas Bogers/Flickr) In her working

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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

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Event organised by BoT-Italy with the support of https://www.linkedin.com/company/back-on-track-eu/ Live stream of the Event in Venice Agenda: Back-on-Track Italy - What is Night Train Activism? Ac...

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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...

Le nouveau gouvernement fédéral reconnaît le rôle du train de nuit, mais comment le concrétiser ?

Nous avons enfin retrouvé un gouvernement fédéral. Et oui ! L'accord de coalition contient un passage sur les trains internationaux. Ce n'est pas grand-chose, mais il y a quand même quelques lignes, et les trains de nuit y sont explicitement mentionnés. We citeren:- Nous encourageons la coopération européenne dans le domaine du transport ferroviaire afin de multiplier et d’améliorer les liaisons ferroviaires européennes, tant au niveau du transport de marchandises que de personnes. Nous plaidon

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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

Nocny Baltic Express bez wagonu sypialnego czy kuszetki

PKP Intercity wciąż nie dogadało się z Czechami w sprawie dołączenia do pociągu Gdynia – Praga wagonu sypialnego, ani nawet kuszetki. Wygląda na to, że kursujący także w nocy Baltic Express, mimo…

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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.🧵