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The 26th UN Conference of the Parties will be hosted by the UK in Glasgow from 1st to 12th November 2021. This is when country… Read More »RAIL TO THE COP

Train or plane? Two new studies from EEA draw new light on climate impacts and broader environment impacts from European passenger and freight transport. With… Read More »New comparison from European Environmental Agency (EEA) on Trains versus Planes

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

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