Sibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland
News auf swissinfo.ch zum Thema #Nachtzug Europa: @[email protected] schlägt vor, dass die EU 500 standardisierte Züge bestellen und diese zu günstigen Konditionen an Betreibergesellschaften vermieten sollte. Ein weiterer und schnellerer Ansatz wäre die Senkung der Trassengebühren.💪🚆🇪🇺 #Bahnzeit

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Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland1d ago
How can this be implemented effectively?✅ @[email protected] „Grossenbacher suggests the European Union could order 500 standardised trains and lease them at favourable rates to operators.“ www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emission...

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Europe’s night-train revival on ‘shaky ground’

Taking a night train across Europe is romantic and climate-friendly, and demand is strong. Yet the much-touted revival is hampered by ageing rolling stock, patchy funding and overstretched infrastructure.

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Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland4h ago
Could this actually work?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @[email protected] Similar to the British ROSCO model, but structured as a public infrastructure facility rather than a profit-seeking investment vehicle:
Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland4h ago
Think of it less as fleet ownership and more as a rolling stock leasing facility with access open to any licensed operator on a transparent, competitive tender basis. A European ROSCO equivalent hosted by the EIB could capture the benefits of the model without the oligopoly problem:
Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland4h ago
- Non-commercial in orientation (cost recovery, no profit motive) - Access via open tender for any licensed operator - Focused on rolling stock the market doesn’t provide — specifically night train vehicles for cross-border routes
Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland2h ago
The proposal essentially corresponds to the call made by @[email protected] (Trains for Europe, 2021) and has since been taken up by various parties, though it has not yet been implemented by the European Commission. For what plausible reasons?
Show threadJon Worth1h ago
Because the rail industry doesn’t want it?
Show threadSibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland1h ago
What are the arguments against it?
Show threadJon Worth58m ago
Rail firms would then have to run night trains that they don’t want to, because they think night trains are hassle? Seriously: the will is missing in the big companies. Obviously there’s demand. But they think it’s a pain simply.
Show threadTobias Watzl34m ago
I talked to several people at ÖBB and I think the only reason ÖBB is investing so heavily is that there are some people at management level who believe in the product and are going out of their way to SOMEHOW make it work. And even a big player like ÖBB is met with huge obstacles.
Show threadTobias Watzl33m ago
Like they wanted to run a Nightjet to Barcelona. And I really believe they wanted to do it. But getting the train paths through France was just too difficult to provide a reliable service to passengers. Same with the Paris Nightjet. ÖBB really wanted to run it. But SNCF did not.