Jon WorthPolitico has done a huge animated kind of report - travel guide about the new European Sleeper service, and all the places it stops
It's a *massive* piece of work!
I am quoted in there about the prospects of the revival of night trains in Europe
🦕 Justus ☠️ Tóth 🏁 Römeth@jon so sad about Hanover :(
@Squig There's also the slightly twisted financial incentives here. I am pretty sure timetabling a Hannover stop would not be hard, but it'd cost €50-100 per time it stops there - and they think they'd not make back that money. Reduce that cost to €0 and then it'd perhaps be worth trying?
@jon but that‘s sth Wissing would have to decide, right?
I think talking to Hanover town hall on this might make sense, too. Not like the platform in question would be used differently at that time.
I think talking to Hanover town hall on this might make sense, too. Not like the platform in question would be used differently at that time.
@Squig There is some new pricing regime coming in for night trains, but I don't know if that applies to station pricing or not…
@jon Belgium said they‘d take over all of that for night trains, certainly a model to follow.
But in the end I also need to concede that my use case (night train from BE/NL and Hanover night life) is attractive to only a very limited audience.