New night trains are reingniting rail travel in Europe
New night trains are reingniting rail travel in Europe SHARE Photo: AP Four European national railway companies promised new sleepers linking 13 major cities on Tuesday in the largest extension of Europe's night network in many years. The 500 million-euro ($A804 million) investment announced by the state railways of Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland comes a year after the German government declared railways crucial to its plans to cut carbon emissions from travel by air. Night trains are still widely used in Eastern Europe, where routes such as St. Petersburg to Moscow are served ...