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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
Inger@jon prachtig geanimeerd artikel over de eerste reis van de nachttrein European Sleeper
🦕 Justus ☠️ Tóth 🏁 Römeth@jon so sad about Hanover :(
@Squig I sort of see the point though. It’ll be even later once European Sleeper starts serving Praha.
@jon And Hanover has been okay with not advertising its night life too much, we couldn‘t take masses of Dutch and Belgian ravers the way Berlin can. It just sucks to lose the sole direct/ and sole night connection that I thought I gained personally for the train connection I need to make the most. So either I add 2h, or I play DB-roulette.
@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.
Arne Brasseur@jon you love to see it! This does make me hopeful for European rail, even though there is a gargantuan amount of work to be done a lot of people care and are doing what they can to make it happen.
Lyle Solla-Yates@jon “Its ambition: to be the harbinger of a revival of the overnight rail lines that once linked the Continent’s cities before the age of discount airlines” #climate #nighttrains
@jon I’m hopeful we’ll see something like this here on gigantic North America in my lifetime
Ag@jon Certainly shames the Graun article for the piece of rubbish that it largely was.
wupatz@jon @seatsixtyone had a long thread on #EuropeanSleeper with surprise detour in Poland: https://nitter.it/seatsixtyone/status/1662151239654572054 - liked that one
British Tech Guru@jon I always used sleeper trains when I traveled in Europe back in the late 90s and right until 2005. It was cheaper than having a hotel.
Andrew Davies@jon Cool article.
Any sites or suggestions on how I can find and book sleeper trains?
@andrew use this: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/ see the colour coding system for who operates what!
@jon Thanks! That's exactly what I need.