On 11 July 2025, Back-on-Track.eu, a European network advocating for night trains, voiced serious concern following the announcement by the Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB, the European Union‘s largest night train operator, that it will reduce its order with Siemens Mobility for new Nightjet trains from 33 to 24 units.
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ÖBB prioritises Railjet over Nightjet: Is the night train revival a False Dawn?
Austrian state railway ÖBB has amended its rolling stock contract with Siemens Mobility, RailTech reports. This decision puts a hold on further deliveries of its new-generation Nightjet sleeper trains. The move marks a shift in investment priorities, with ÖBB responding to rising passenger numbers by focusing instead on expanding its Railjet 2 daytime fleet.
Leo Express wants night train service from Slovakia to Ostend, Belgium
Leo Express, a Czech railway operator, intends to introduce a night train service between Ostend in Belgium and Bratislava in Slovakia via Germany and Czechia from mid-December 2026; Thibault Lapers reports on his Mobilithib Substack. Leo Express notified the Czech Office for the Protection of Economic Competition (Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže) of its intentions.
VIDEO | Berlin start-up Nox to launch night trains with entirely private rooms from 2027
A new player is entering the European mobility space. Nox (night in Latin), a Berlin-based startup is on a mission to offer a real alternative to short-haul flights. From the end of 2027, Nox plans to operate Europe-wide overnight trains with fully personal rooms for one or two people at the price of a flight….
EUROPEAN SLEEPER | Brussels to Barcelona night train to stop in Avignon, Montpellier, Narbonne, and Girona
In a May 2025 newsletter, European Sleeper lets slip its Barcelona-bound night train service will stop at Avignon, Montpellier, Narbonne in France, and Gerona / Girona in Spain‘s Catalonia region. This service will depart from Brussels in Belgium.
Back-on-Track EU: New study confirms climate protection potential of night trains
Night train advocacy group Back-on-Track looks at a recent German study on night trains and ecology. Climate friendliness and energy efficiency are always big issues in the debate.
The end of the Brussels – Berlin ÖBB Nightjet
“The NightJet train to Berlin is no more. The night train departed like a thief into the night”, Alexander Gomme from Back On Track Belgium mailed us. “On Monday evening, the last NightJet Brussels-Berlin night train unexpectedly departed from Brussels-South.”
ÖBB Nightjet stops Brussels – Berlin sleeper train service from 28 March 2025
From Thursday 28 March 2025, ÖBB Nightjet will stop its sleeper train service between Brussels in Belgium and Berlin in Germany. Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61, posted the news.
REVIEW | European Sleeper night train
October 2024. During a week-long whistle-stop tour of Germany, we visit Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, Weimar in Thuringia, Coburg in Upper Franconia (Bavaria) and Kassel in Hesse. Smaller cities, yes. But each with their own significance. Untouched by overtourism. We’re avoiding using the white trains of DB Fernverkehr, Deutsche Bahn‘s long-distance section and opt to use…
European Commission commits to single-ticket train travel, Back-on-Track unconvinced it will happen
In her working plan accompanying her application speech in front of the EU Parliament Commission, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen from Germany did not really raise high ambitions about progress in transport of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in general or improvements of the European railway network in particular, but one promise…