Back-on-Track.eu General Position Paper
Last edition April 2025 Why we need more night trains Trains are the most climate friendly means of transport, planes the most unfriendly one. In… Read More »Back-on-Track.eu General Position Paper
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Finally on Track: ÖBB’s Next Generation Nightjet
In-depth review: We spent 20 hours on the new Nightjet – “an outstanding piece of technology”. Read all about the train, its features and especially the Mini Cabins, plus some suggestions for improvements.
Chaos and no timetable: DB slows down Swedish night train
Picture from Berlin Gesundbrunnen on the 2.4. 2023 Did Deutsche Bahn think it was an April Fool’s joke that the SJ night train from Stockholm… Read More »Chaos and no timetable: DB slows down Swedish night train
Conference 2022: Night train of the past, present and future
The conference is over with succes. Here you find pictures and videos from the conference. Thanks to the hard work from our Belgium group, who… Read More »Conference 2022: Night train of the past, present and future
Action plan to boost long distance and cross-border passenger rail
The EU Commission has 14.12. presented an Action Plan, that is covering the area of promoting night trains. >> Read the Back-on-Track comments to the… Read More »Action plan to boost long distance and cross-border passenger rail
Trains instead of planes to 1.500 km
A new report from Greenpeace underlines the need to change from climate harming planes to eco-friendly trains. We quote from the summary of the report:… Read More »Trains instead of planes to 1.500 km
Belgium ready to subsidize night trains to and from Brussels
We are pleased to notice that the Belgium Minister of Transport, Mr Gilkinet, has listened to Back-on-Track, Belgium laments and is taking the problem of… Read More »Belgium ready to subsidize night trains to and from Brussels
Time is ripe for new night train connections
Interview with Back-on-Track co-founder Joachim Holstein, first published in Rail Report Europe. RRE: Why did you start campaigning to keep night trains? Railway companies in… Read More »Time is ripe for new night train connections
Towards a Harmonized European Rail Pass
European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) conducted a good webinar on 16.9. Many issues of ticketing, barcodes, on-line data and so on came up. But… Read More »Towards a Harmonized European Rail Pass
Important issues and relevant suggestions
The European network to promote long-distance day- and night trains “Back-on-Track” met Thursday afternoon 2.9. to digest the presentation 1.9. All in all we are… Read More »Important issues and relevant suggestions