Midnight Trains
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Felicia Widing
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New network of European sleeper trains planned
From 2024, Midnight Trains aims to run ‘hotels on rails’ from Paris to 12 cities across Europe. The sleeping trains are an alternative to the basic, state-run sleepers, and aims to compete with short-haul flights. It makes me happy to see that the alternatives to stay on the ground while traveling in Europe are increasing! https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/travel/2021/jun/22/new-network-of-european-sleeper-overnight-trains-planned https://www.midnight-trains.com/en/home
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The big question is how to get more governments, banks and people to invest in current rail infrastructure. We should also be moving more freight by rail surely.
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When is this going to be up and running? Our NL university Erasmus University Rotterdam just made all trips inside 700km train based.
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126 w
Splendid!
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This is a Great move forward
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We believe that zero-emission aircrafts will not be operational before 2050 (at least). Even Airbus and Boeing themselves are not confident they can make it before 2050. In the meantime, more and more travelers are looking for convenient and sustainable alternatives while traveling on medium-distances. Thus, we have to propose an alternative to travelers. High-speed trains can not be this alternative for distances of more than 800km as travel time would be too long, high-speed infrastructure and tracks are not steady enough over Europe and finally, high-speed trains operators are more focused on national routes than international ones. We have the strong conviction that night trains are the only solution for international medium-distance routes in Europe. However, if night train services do not improve there is no way people will stop flying. They will only attract night train lovers and environmentally convinced travelers. We want to have a real impact and to convince the others to stop flying. In order to do so we have to re-invent night train experience and services. We do not want to create a luxury service, we just believe that if we want to convince travelers to stop flying we have to set up a new benchmark of night trains with privacy (100% private cabins), a good table (bar and restaurant), a digital experience from end-to-end and a new modern design.
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Hi Midnight trains, thank you for your reply! I agree with your argument, the night train services need to change to attract more people and not just train lovers and environmentally convinced travellers. That is why I was so happy to read about your sleeping trains, which hopefully will attract more people to chose trains for routes in Europe. A variety of solutions is great to attract as many people as possible. Keep up the good work!
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Dear Felicia Widing Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Midnight Trains and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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That's sounds sweet.
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Really great news! Traveling on a night train is very comfortable, climate smart and also time efficient. Will be using this service later this year😊
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I agree. Clean, green and comfy🚅
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Big fan of sleeper trains! Hope this spurs the basic ones to step up in quality as well.