c/trains · by alecs1@lemmy.kde.social · 316d

Night trains linking Paris to Vienna and Berlin to end as France cuts subsidies

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/09/29/paris-vienna-and-paris-berlin-night-trains-to-end-as-france-cuts-subsidies_6745904_19.html

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blackfire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 316d (2 replies)

Everyone is blaming everyone else. Shame really. Maybe they will come back in another decade or two

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 316d (1 reply)

Well, a train fanatic is trying to start a overnight rail service in 2027. This is their site: https://noxmobility.com/

alecs1@lemmy.kde.social · 4 pts · 315d

If this wasn't Thibault, I would have believed this as another implausible project by some bro who rode the train twice in his life. I wish them good luck but can't really that much, being in another country , Ro, with even worse train situation :)))

alecs1@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 315d (1 reply)

A few more insights I got in a reply in another thread: https://jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-hearted-effort-to-support-international-night-trains-in-danger-of-hitting-the-buffers/

The usual politics and indifference: SNCF is unable to create a ticketing system+frontend clean enough that they can fix and integrate easily to sell cross-country tickets ("Une erreur c'est produite" has been the motto of their user frontend for 20 years already), other technical details are even more preposterous:

ÖBB uses a leased Siemens Vectron locomotive for the Nightjet to Brussels, but that option is not open here – France is pretty much the only standard gauge European country where Vectron is not approved to run.

Niquarl@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 315d

Haven't used it myself but I've seen good reviews from folks on Mastodon for https://www.12train.com/