OPEN LETTER FROM ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Dear Minister Pedro Nuno Santos (Portugal), Dear Commissioner Adina Vălean, The European Year of Rail could not have come at… Read More »Official start of the European Year of Rail – triggering a rail renaissance for Europe
This is how a new publication from Germanwatch get started. It is giving a short and clear analysis, and shows good overall directions. Let us… Read More »Hop on the train: A Rail Renaissance for Europe
The Netherlands has got a new railway company: European Sleeper. The new railway company promises to introduce a night train from the Netherlands and Belgium… Read More »European sleeper
We ask the Spanish, French, and Portuguese governments (the latter of which is now taking presidency of the Council of the EU, in the first… Read More »Petition: Link the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe with Night Trains
The French transport minister wants «10 overnight lines by 2030» The French transport minister, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, onboard a couchette coach in renovation – Picture: SNCF… Read More »France to redevelop sleeper trains
Back on Track’s demands for 2021 – the European Year of Rail The European Union has declared 2021 to be the European Year of Rail!… Read More »European Year of Rail to set substantial ambitions
Germanwatch together with the Civil Affairs Institute, ProRail, France Nature Environment, eco-union, Ecodes and Transport&Environment has published a new paper on the challenges of the… Read More »How the 2021 European Year of Rail can support the European Green Deal
After request from the EU-Parliament in 2020 DG MOVE announced for consultancies, to make the actual work. Main contractor is Steer Davies and Gleeve Ltd… Read More »EU Report 2021 about night trains
Press release from Back-on-Track, European network to promote cross-border and night trains The todays press conference on enhanced cooperation between DB (Germany), ÖBB (Austria), SBB… Read More »Night trains: Much more, much wider
There is an extremely interesting new poll by the “EUPinions” Institute (which seems rather neo-liberal, certainly no eco-leftist propaganda…) on the ideas of Europeans on… Read More »Almost two thirds (!) support a ban of short haul flights