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CER’s new campaign will promote rail as a smarter, more sustainable and more connected means of transport for Europe as part of the European Commission’s European Year of Rail. The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) has launched its ‘Future is Rail’ campaign, which aims to show rail as a smarter, cleaner and more connected means of transport in the European Union (EU). The beginning of the campaign comes after the official launch of the European Year of Rail and shares the objective of encouraging more passengers and businesses to see rail as the future o...

ÖBB and Siemens Mobility recently presented the first painted car body and exterior design for the new generation of the new, ultra-modern train Nightjet in Vienna.

ÖBB and Siemens Mobility present exterior design of the new Nightjet ÖBB and Siemens Mobility presented the first painted car body and exterior design for the new generation of the Nightjet in Vienna. The new, ultra-modern trains will enter service near the end of 2022 and will first be used on connections from Austria and Germany to Italy. The first 13 trainsets have already been called up by ÖBB from a framework agreement with Siemens Mobility, and a further 20 trains are expected to be called up this year. Leonore Gewessler, Austria’s Minister for Climate Protection: “In the fight a...

The new generation of Nightjet trains, which have now been presented, are set to be put into service by ÖBB by the end of 2022.

How Europe's night trains came back from the dead By Julia Buckley, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — Going to bed in one major city and waking up in another; toasting the landscape as a new country slips past; being rocked to sleep as you rattle across a continent. It's no wonder that the night trains of Europe have been a byword for romance, immortalized by writers such as Agatha Christie. Until recently, however, the reality has been very different. In fact, over the past decade, much of Europe's night train network has been cut. 2013 and 2014 saw the culling of lines from ...