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👋🇪🇺 Meet Jim Odenhoven! He has just launched a European Citizens’ Initiative to make European travel by train a true alternative to aviation. He needs a million signatures for it to be heard. Learn more and sign here: eci.ec.europa.eu/065/public/%23/screen/home

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/10/2026

In July the Trafikverket announced that SJ will resume the direct nighttrain Stockholm 🇸🇪 -Narvik 🇳🇴 from December. While other connections can now be booked even for January, only this train was excluded. Meanwhile SJ announced to add it later. Keep fingers crossed! www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

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Klart med nattågen till övre Norrland – inför bytesfria resor

Trafikverket meddelar att SJ tilldelas uppdraget att driva nattågstrafiken från Stockholm till övre Norrland de kommande två åren. Samtidigt meddelar myndigheten att man återinför bytesfria resor i…

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 25/09/2026

This Tuesday at #Innotrans we opened our #nighttrain target network planning tool to the public, and within just 4 days we received more than 1,000 proposals for new night train routes, some dreams, some gems. 🫶 Thanks to all volunteers for joining our booth team 🚄 🛌 🛏️🛏️

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 17/09/2026

To advocate expanding night train networks and banning night flights. 🔵More info and photos from the event: pyjama-party.back-on-track.eu 🔵 Petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-ni...

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Pyjama Party for Night Trains — 13 September 2026

Night trains, not night planes. Pyjamas on, platforms across Europe — Sunday 13 September 2026, each station its own hour.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 17/09/2026

🚆🕺 One night, many platforms, and a big push for smarter transporation! Last Sunday we co-hosted a Pyjama Protest Party with Stay Grounded. People showed up at their local train stations across 17+ cities across Europe and Africa. Why?

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 10/09/2026

🚝🤝 Meet us at InnoTrans! We're excited to learn more about how what is happening at the forefront of the rail transportation — and also to launch a new tool our team has been working on. More details coming soon. You can find members our team and our booth with our friends at Luna Rail.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 13/08/2026

💭🗺️ Could we be seeing the Scottish Caledonian Sleeper in mainland Europe soon? Earlier this month, Transport Scotland announced they are developing a feasibility study with Scottish Rail Holdings Limited and Caledonian Sleeper. The findings will be reported later this year. What do you think?

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 04/08/2026

🆕📣 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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 27/07/2026

🚄🌙 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!

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 13/07/2026

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...

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 29/06/2026

Sources Europe’s contrail radiative forcing at 876 mW/m² vs. a global average of 60 mW/m²: lnkd.in/e26b8fmd 57% Share of contrails in average radiative forcing from aviation: lnkd.in/e__dvbt Night trains could reduce at least 3% of EU global warming contribution: lnkd.in/emMz2Gvj

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 28/06/2026

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. 🌙🚂

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 03/06/2026

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!

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/06/2026

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 22/04/2026

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.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 21/04/2026

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: back-on-track.eu/seden-orders-talgo… #NightTrains #Nattåg #SustainableTravel

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Sibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland @trainsetter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 06/01/2026

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-...

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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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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 23/12/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 30/10/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 10/10/2025

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. 🚆💔

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 24/09/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 21/09/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 17/07/2025

But for 🇫🇷 (as for most other Memberstates) it's a novelty in long distance passenger Transport. The process itself is set to begin in early May 2026. Hopefully, it will not end up like the last 🇸🇪 Swedish tender for night train services to 🇳🇴 Narvik, which received 0 applications. 2/2 buff.ly/CVmsKBM

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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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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 17/07/2025

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

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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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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 13/07/2025

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.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 10/07/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 10/07/2025

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.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 12/05/2025

📅 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!

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 30/04/2025

There is no confirmation, that there is none. The Koper branch was already missing in last years map, we missed to rectify that. Sorry for that, it's just volunteer work. We will update the online version.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 30/04/2025

One of the trains to which the through coach was attached was replaced by a self-propelled EMU (electric multiple unit). Without loco and coupling this connection wasn't technically feasible any more.

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 29/04/2025

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

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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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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 26/04/2025

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

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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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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 26/04/2025

Being a regular service it qualifies for our night train map but the booking limitation makes it a cruise train, disqualifying the service. What do you think should we add it? 4/4

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 26/04/2025

According to the press release the train will offer 660 couchettes berths and feature a "wagon bar" (which some media translated as a restaurant car). Booking the train will however only be possible within a travel package. 3/4

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 26/04/2025

The service will be run as Travelski Night Express in Cooperation with Pegasus Rail. Travelski is a brand of the establieshed travel operator Travel Factory who belong since 2018 to Compagnie des Alpes who run a couple of the connected resorts. Their partner Pegasus Rail was founded in 2024. 2/4

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 26/04/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/04/2025

... on train and plane tickets were of lesser importance, but rather the other prerequisite for building the rolling stock needed to realise the climate potential of night trains. Here is the new study: buff.ly/Gd7S4Tu Our study from 2022: buff.ly/BQJ6t5R 🧵 5/5 #levelplayingfield

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/04/2025

Stakeholders present at the presentation confirmed the study in identifying the lack of a ‘go-everywhere’ standard for rolling stock as the main obstacle to train orders. However, the stakeholders disputed that lower track access charges and the alignment of VAT ... #trainsforeurope 🧵 4/5

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/04/2025

But the study confirmed the emissions figure for night trains estimated by Back-on-Track. However, the overall potential was estimated to be lower, as the realisable distances were limited to 1,500 km and the cost of a 14-car train was estimated at €50 million. #3percentOverNight 🧵 3/5

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/04/2025

Target was to assess the potential of night trains arriving in, departing from or passing through Germany, which was presented at the Ministry on 31 March. Unlike the Back-on-Track study, infrastructure emissions were included, which account for 21% of emissions in the German energy mix. 🧵 2/5

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 02/04/2025

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

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 12/03/2025

In the meantime the Commission clarified to us the task wasn't skipped. (They just forgot to mention these pending proposals in the annex of pending proposals).

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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 12/03/2025

Yes, on passenger rights, see above. A new draft on single ticketing was announced for later this year. COM(2023)753 final 2023/0437 (COD) 29.11.2023 COM(2023)752 final 2023/0436 (COD) 29.11.2023

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