Night trains linking Berlin to Brussels and Paris will resume service Monday evening after a shutdown of almost a decade. Strong demand for these routes is anticipated.
Half of the night trains from the German capital Berlin will go to Brussels, the other half to the City of Lights. The first departure scheduled for Monday evening has its destination in Brussels. The German Transport Minister, Volker Wissing, and the executive director of the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn, Richard Lutz, will be on the platforms to attend the highly anticipated event.
The train will leave Berlin’s largest station at 8:18 p.m. to enter Brussels’ Gare du Nord at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, and Gare du Midi at 9:56 a.m., according to the SNCB website. The train is initially planned to run three times a week, with the aim of moving to an all-night service from October 2024. The carriers involved are SNCB in Belgium, Deutsche Bahn in Germany, ÖBB in Austria and SNCF in France.
“The new night connection is already well booked during the holiday period“, observes Deutsche Bahn. We will have to wait until the end of the holidays to find free places. “As soon as we launch a new night connection with rail partners, there is a real boom in reservations“, adds the German carrier.
Deutsche Bahn ended these night trains in 2014, with a drop in demand and obsolete carriages. But interest in this type of transport has revived in Europe in recent years, particularly as travelers worry about the impact of their travel on the climate and high CO2 emissions from the airline sector.
2023-12-11 21:46:09
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