From the Swiss on-line media Tribune deGèneve we have kindly got this translation (from French) In the 1990s, since Cornavin (main railway station in Geneve),… Read More »How low cost flights killed night trains
As a follow-up on our hand-over of 42,000 signatures the minister for Transport, Ole Birk Olesen, tells us (and with less relevant talk removed): (…)… Read More »Minister and DSB reactions to 42,000 signatures
Back-on-Track has decided that we in cooperation with other train friends will make parties in Berlin, Wroclaw, Frankfurt (Oder) and Vienna in relation to the new… Read More »Celebration in Berlin and other places: New night train from 9.12.
23.11. 2018: Article from the largest Danish newspaper Politiken by Sune Højrup Bencke (original in Danish, translated by Back-on-Track) 3.12. 2018: Editorial from the same… Read More »42,000 want the night train back
Improvements are made from the draft proposal made to the EU-parliament, and now it looks much better. Both better compensations in case of train delays,… Read More »EU-Parliament votes for improved passenger rights
I was debated in March and April 2018 what could become the consequence of poor cooperation between train operators, when travellers from June 2018 could… Read More »No travel chain between NightJet and connecting train
At 21.11. approx. 40.000 signatures will be handed over in Copenhagen to the Parliament’s Traffic Committee. Al these signatures are collected primarily in Denmark and Sweden… Read More »Political appeal together with handing over 40.000 signatures
The French transport minister talked about the night trains this week, and announced that she would give 30 million € to revamp the couchette carriages,… Read More »Renovation of old French couchette fleet
The old Metropol train via Dresden and Prague was discontinued, and it looked like the too known degradation of European night train lines. And now… Read More »New optimism: EN Metropol is back!
The Higher Administrative Court of Hamburg has granted an urgent application against the relocation of the long-distance railway station Hamburg-Altona! It justified the decision with… Read More »Law court stops relocation of Hamburg Altona station